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	Ikat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ikat is a style of weaving that uses a tie-dye process on either the warp or weft before the threads are woven to create a pattern or design.
		Patola cloth, a double ikat from Gujarat, western India, used to be exported to Indonesia for the use of the royal families.
		Ikat was known to be produced in several pre-Columbian Central and South American cultures.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ikat (778 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In the ikat technique, which is also called tie and dye method, the designs in various colors are formed on a fabric either by the warp threads or the weft threads (single ikat) or by both (double ikat).
		In single ikat fabrics, the warp or weft threads which are tied and dyed as per design are to be positioned accurately in proper sequence in weaving as required by the design and its color scheme.
		The ‘bandhas’ or ikat fabrics of Orissa have a distinct native identity.
	www.lib.uconn.edu /about/exhibits/sari/ikat.htm (160 words)

	Ikat -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		"Ikat" means "tied" or "bound" in the (A member of a people inhabiting the northern Malay Peninsula and Malaysia and parts of the western Malay Archipelago) Malay language which describes the process.
		Patola cloth, a double ikat from (An industrialized state in western India that includes parts of Bombay) Gujarat, western India, used to be exported to Indonesia for the use of the royal families.
		Ikats created by (The time when something ends) dying the warp are the easiest to make.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/i/ik/ikat.htm (651 words)

	Ikat and Weaving in Central Mexico
		Ikat is a dying technique that allows the warp to be selectively colored before it is woven.
		If the ikat threads were wrapped onto a separate warp beam, it would not be possible to adjust the individual threads to correctly form the pattern as weaving progresses.
		The warp must be frequently adjusted to assure that the ikat - dyed threads form the correct motif as it is being woven.
	iweb.tntech.edu /cventura/shawl.htm (411 words)

	Cloudband : Magazine : Features : CONSERVATION TREATMENT OF AN INDONESIAN SILK IKAT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Double ikat is only woven in India, where it is known as patola, in Bali, where it is known as geringsing, and in Japan, where it is called kasuri.
		A few years ago, this particular ikat weave textile was purchased in Bali from a dealer who stated that it was approximately 150 years old, and had probably been woven in Java.
		The ikat was lowered onto the stretcher and once an even the position was established, it was pinned on using entomological pins.
	www.cloudband.com /magazine/articles4q00/feat_smith_ikat_0900.html (1599 words)

	TurkoTek Discussion Boards
		The warp ikat in central Asian textiles is almost crude in comparison to the weft ikat used in Laotian textiles (and in southeast Asian textiles in general).
		Remember, too, that in warp ikat the warps are set on the loom and before inserting any wefts, the weaver can adjust the warps to make the colors line up the way she wants them to.
		In Laotian tribal weft ikat, the textile is weft predominant; in central Asian warp ikat, the textile is warp predominant.
	www.turkotek.com /salon_00059/s59t3.htm (1586 words)

	Information - History
		Ikat (a Malay-Indonesian word) is an intricate technique in which threads are patterned by repeated binding and dyeing before they are woven.
		Ikat weavings were made into robes and hangings that were frequently part of a woman's dowry and clothing that defined the wearer's social position as well as into fabrics that accompanied all life cycle rituals, covering everything from the wedding bed to the casket.
		Ikat: Splendid Silks of Central Asia from the Guido Goldman Collection is being circulated by the American Foundation for Textile Art, Inc. established in 1996 to foster the presentation, interpretation and preservation of textiles as vital cultural artifacts.
	www.thejewishmuseum.org /site/pages/content/about/press_release_archive/ikat.html (836 words)

	Ethnic Arts Textiles: How Ikat cloth is made!
		Ikat dying is the process of putting a resist pattern in a weaving by tying and dying the threads in patterns before warping on the loom.
		Weft ikat occurs when the tied threads are used in the weft of the weave.
		Bundles of untied ikat threads in two shades of blue and white hang waiting to be warped on the loom.
	www.ethnicarts.com /textiles/ikat_information_3.htm (195 words)

	Silk Circa 1840: Jacobs/Goldfine Paper
		The ikat robes were regarded as a status symbol; the number of layered robes a person wore indicated his or her wealth.
		Ikats continue to be made today, but it was "during a hundred-year-long cultural and economic revival in the oasis kingdoms, [that] ikat dyeing became the most active, sophisticated and widely distributed textile art in Central Asia".
		The ikats of the nineteenth century are a reminder of the vital relationship that existed between silk manufacturing and the Central Asia culture.
	www.smith.edu /hsc/silk/papers/jacobs.html (3078 words)

	IKAT
		IKAT is an important step forward in providing a cost-effective means for knowledge asset management.
		The IKAT toolkit provides access to a range of web-enabled knowledge acquisition tools that assist the knowledge engineer in characterizing the knowledge infrastructure of a particular problem domain.
		In its basic form, the expert is asked to discriminate between triads of entities in a domain, by suggesting a construct that applies to two of the entities but not the third.
	www.epistemics.co.uk /Notes/51-0-0.htm (1882 words)

	NOVICA - Wall Hangings & Tapestries - Ikat & Batik Wall Hangings (Bali)
		Ikat means "to knot" in Indonesian and Malay, and it is a time-consuming process known only to a handful of weavers around the world.
		Ikat means "to knot." The warp threads are tie-dyed before weaving, using natural Indonesian dyes derived from plants.
		Ikat means "to knot." The warp threads are tie-dyed before weaving.
	giftanimals.com /art/wall-hangings-and-tapestries/ikat-and-batik-wall-hangings-bali/index.cfm?c=499&l=4&si=1 (2531 words)

	Special Exhibitions - Ikat
		Ikat is an intricate resist-dye technique in which threads are patterned by repeated binding and dyeing before they are woven.
		Another term used in Central Asia for ikat is abr, or ìcloud.î It is believed that the blurred visual effects of an ikat imitate the reflection of clouds in the still water of a pool, a heavenly refuge from the oppressive heat and aridity of the Central Asian landscape.
		Although ikat is an ancient technique practiced in many parts of the world, it reached its zenith in Central Asia during the nineteenth century.
	www.jewishmuseum.org /home/content/exhibitions/special/ikat/ikat.html (407 words)

	Ikat weaves a spell : HindustanTimes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ikat is a style of weaving that has been performed worldwide, from Japan and India to Mexico and Argentina.
		Fragments and records of ikat go back 1,200 years in Yemen, on the Arabian peninsula, and in Java, one of Indonesia's big islands, said Massumeh Farhad, chief curator at the Sackler.
		The warp _ the vertical threads _ and the weft _ the horizontal ones _ are separately tie-dyed, but both are part of the intricate patterns.
	www.hindustantimes.com /news/181_1446399,001100020003.htm (453 words)

	ikat fabrics and textiles of Central Asia
		On the steppe, ikat and other luxury fabrics served as currency, and robes were often received in payment for military and other services rendered to the towns.
		The ribbed surface of the adras cotton wefted ikats is faintly nubbed.
		The silk velvet ikats were very difficult to weave, and design exercises of a different kind, because the designer had to make a very elongated pattern on the warp that would appear compressed after the weaving and looping process.
	www.anahitagallery.com /aharch04.html (5666 words)

	The Proverbs Woman-Ikat Method (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Kate Browning Ware uses a painterly approach called "ikat" (pronounced e-kot), an Indonesian word meaning to "bind off," creating resist areas of patterning, imagery or color movements in the silk warp yarns....PRIOR to weaving the fabric.
		Ware's ikat textiles are exclusively warp-faced or vertically designed fabric structures, the opposite of the traditional tapestry or Native American rug weaving method.
		All the color changes and design elements, whether geometrically bound (ikat) or organic, flowing movements (space-dyed or dipped), are dyed in the vertical warp threads prior to weaving the fabric.
	www.art2honorgod.com /ikat.html (576 words)

	Lakshmi's Sari Purchases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ikat is a technique whereby either the warp or weft threads are resisted and dyed before they are woven.
		The ikat image is fuzzy in both directions - the flowers on the bottom were part of the warp, while the flowers in columns above are from the weft.
		Both warp and weft ikat have been used separately at different points, to make a border and to decorate the pallav (the fancy bit at one end).
	www.pir.net /~beth/Saris/saris.html (2815 words)

	Korak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ikat fabrics were used for garments, large wall hangings, or bed covers (Klimburg 1993:43).
		Ikat dyeing was the provenance of men; apprentices learned the techniques from masters.
		Women used ikat scraps from garments or hangings to create the patchwork curtains, cushions, or camel covers used to carry the bride's dowry (Lindahl and Knorr 1976:50).
	sohe.wisc.edu /depts/hlatc/storiesexhibit/korak.html (165 words)

	A Comparative Look at Ikat in North and South Vietnam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Further south it is possible that early warp ikat weaving is associated with the influence of the so-called Dongson culture of northern Vietnam (as evidenced by the distribution of large bronze drums) a little over 2,000 years ago (see Swadling 1996 on early trade relations between the Dongson area and the eastern Indonesian archipelago).
		While the Indian origins of most weft ikat weaving in Southeast Asia is undeniable, there remains the possibility that not all weft ikat weaving in the region came from this source and that there was an earlier tradition of weft ikat weaving that is local in origin.
		Weft ikat woven textiles in Vietnam are associated primarily with the Thai of Thanh Hoa province.
	depts.washington.edu /seac/textiles/michael.html (4824 words)

	Ikat Weaving and Dye Techniques - All Fiber Arts
		In ikat weaving, the design is done by careful dyeing of the warp and weft.
		In Indonesia both warp and weft Ikat have been developed to create complex textiles of ceremonial significance.
		The International Ikat Weaving Forum 1999 brought together scholars and weavers internationally to exchange information about historical, cultural and artistic aspect of Ikat textiles.
	www.allfiberarts.com /library/aa97/aa100397.htm (264 words)

	ArtScope.net: IKAT: Splendid Silks Silks of Central Asia
		Ikat was to some degree, much more free of conventions than other art forms in familiar Islamic culture, and several in this exhibition seem surprisingly modern and individual.
		Ikat itself is a precision binding and dyeing of threads prior to weaving.
		The practice of Ikat cloth primarily began with silk and cotton; but ultimately the process came to be done solely in silk.
	www.artscope.net /VAREVIEWS/splendidsilks1099.shtml (1094 words)

	Textiles
		Savu is a small, arid island, but her ikat textiles with their subdued colours and floral forms have appealed to Europeans since they were first seen.
		This cotton ikat textile is a selimut (blanket or large wrapper) of the Greater Blossom group.
		The word "ikat" means to tie or to bundle and intricate patterns are produced by tie-dyeing patterns into the threads before weaving.
	www.geocities.com /PicketFence/Garden/1729/textiles.htm (1485 words)

	Marguerite Gritli Pfyffer, IKAT TEXTILES OF THE ANDES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Marguerite Gritli Pfyffer, IKAT TEXTILES OF THE ANDES
		It also deals with ikat's aesthetics, and reaches the Andean weavers' deeply rooted love for beauty, ethnic pride and vision of the Invisible.
		Due to its intricacy and time requirement in a world where 'time is money', even in the remotest part of the Cordillera, ikat is currently on the verge of extinction.
	www.arbredor.com /titres/ikat.html (310 words)

	The Hindu : It's an ikat mela in town!
		The single ikat involves yarn of a single colour on the weft (for cross threads) and the process is comparatively undemanding.
		The double ikat entails yarn with more than one colour on the weft or the warp (for parallel threads) or both.
		The process is complex, for the yarn has to be dyed as many times by tying a rubber band around areas that ought to resist the dye.
	www.hinduonnet.com /lf/2004/09/10/stories/2004091000750200.htm (548 words)

	What is ikat fabric?
		Traditional Thai ikat cottons are often indigo-dyed in lively and engaging motifs representing the village life and beliefs of the people.
		Ikat fabrics are woven by hand on narrow looms in a labor-intensive process.
		Plainweave ikat fabrics, due to the unique resist patterning, look the same on both sides of the fabric; there is no right side and wrong side to the cloth.
	www.mekongrivertextiles.com /what.html (325 words)

	Uzbek Silk Ikat
		Ikat is a techique of weaving where the long warp threads are dyed PRIOR to weaving and it is through this tie dye technique, applying multiple colors to one silk warp thread, that the design is subsequently formed after weaving.
		The dyeing of the silk was usually done by the resident Jewish population of these urban centers in Uzbekistan from where such textiles originated.
		This is a superior example of ikat textile work from Uzbekistan, possibly the Bokhara emirate.
	www.tribalsource.net /SikatD.html (574 words)

	Zigzag white and grey Ikat fabric - Unique gift ideas - Jewelry Box, Silk Scarf and other gifts by Uzbekistan art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This is hand-dyed and hand-woven ikat adras (cotton/silk blend fabric).
		Ikat is a technique of weaving that requires a great amount of precision of tying and dyeing silk yarn in order to achieve a desired pattern.
		Exquisite in its ikat design, this chopon is festive, comfortable and very warm.
	www.uzbekalive.com /ProductDetails-617-31.html (404 words)

	Project Ikat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Collaborating under the direction of Project Ikat's resident artists, the kids work in theatre ensembles to stage an original piece of music theatre.
		Project Ikat also involves local arts and artists in the process, and forges a sense of community among participants and audiences alike.
		Incorporated in New York, Project Ikat is a sponsored project of the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), a 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization founded in 1971 to work with the arts community throughout New York State.
	projectikat.org (362 words)

	Bali hotels, travel and local information guide - culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This art is so-called as a piece of ikat cloth is woven in a way that the ink is "tied" in one of the two threads.
		Certain patterns of the ikat, especially fl and white, and chequered pieces are believed to have the power to protect the wearer against evil spirits.
		This belief is widely seen in the pieces of ikats covering or dressing statues guarding the entrances of temples.
	www.bali-resorts.net /culture.html (1892 words)

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