Red and Black Silk Ikat Robe with Embroidery IK69

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Ikat velvet like silk ikat has over 32 step in production. The velvet consumes twice as more silk and twice longer time to produce the beautiful patterns. The velvets are all loom made. Ladies sit diagonally across from each other throwing monochrome silk weft across the patterned warp, hands and feet moving rhythmically. Every few picks, they stop to pull a metal wire from a pouch attached to the upright of each loom and inset it into the weft. Two warps extended from the fell in front of them, passing through a metal reed and four shafts of string heddles to soar upwards across the room. At the far end of each loom, the ground and velvet warps are hung over separate wooden rollers. Tensioning is provided by a cloth sack filled with heavy objects tied to the loosely hanging warp. The dozens of meters of ground and velvet ikat warps falling below the weighted bag are casually bundled in sacks on the floor.