Brief of Ikat
Hello, my Four Sides TV Fashion Fam! Ikat fabric is a type of textile design created through dyeing. Parts of the yarns are resist-dyed to create Ikat before the cloth is woven. Ikat involves binding individual yarns or bundles of yarns together tightly and applying the wrapping in the desired design. Then, the yarns are colored. The yarns can then be dyed differently and the bindings modified to make a new design. You may create intricate, multi-colored designs by repeating this method several times. Upon completion of the dyeing process, all bindings are taken off and the strands are sewn into fabric. Whereas the resist in ikat is applied to the yarns before to them being woven into cloth, it is applied to the woven material in other resist-dying processes like tie-dye and batik. Ikat fabrics are known for their apparent "blurriness" in the design. The weaver finds it extremely difficult to align the dyed yarns so that the pattern appears precisely as intended in the comp...