Beautiful top with adjustable straps made of itak cotton
Ikat weaving is one of the most complicated and weavers are highly qualified in this centuries-old tradition
Ikat is a procedure for dyeing yarns today especially among the Malay and Indonesian peoples. The meaning of the term is cloud
The ikat is technically a reserve dye, that is a type of dyeing where parts of the yarns are protected by a tight binding so as not to be dyed while the non-tied parts are colored. warp joined in small tied bundles so as to obtain during the weaving on the loom the pre-established pattern and a double ikat in which the weft threads are treated with similar procedure
Ikat was already known in ancient Hindu culture and in its simplest type even in pre-Columbian Peru