ANTIQUE RARE UZBEK NATURAL SILK+COTTON IKAT ADRAS KURPA Start Price USD 1,400.00 Current Price USD 1,400.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Sunday, September 07, 2008 End Time Friday, September 12, 2008 Location Tashkent, Chilanzar See more about 'ANTIQUE RARE UZBEK NATURAL SILK+COTTON IKAT ADRAS KURPA' Description AlexSh Store   ANTIQUE RARE UZBEK NATURAL SILK+COTTON IKAT ADRAS LARGE PANEL-KURPA   We're proud of to offer a true sample of traditional national Uzbek silk-ikat calls "Adras". As the Soviet era ended and Westerners discovered Central Asian folk arts, the Uzbek SILKs became very popular for their high quality, rich saturated colors, original bold patterns. East_treasures offers you antique and modern silks, affordably priced and in beautiful condition. LOT NAME Large panel KURPA-cover ORIGIN Buhara AGE 1900 MATERIALS The fabric of this panel "Adras" has been patterned with the ikat technique, an urban men's skill in Central Asia, in which pattern is produced by binding the warp threads tightly according to the desired pattern and dyeing them before attaching the warp to the loom for weaving the cloth. The fabric is thus woven after the pattern has been dyed into the warp. Natural silk, lining interlacing. CONDITION very good SIZE 75-76 in (190-195 cm)   We're honored to be able to offer you the antique brilliantly coloured silk ikat Panel, was made in Buhara, Uzbekistan in approximately 1880-1900 year. Silk ikat, cotton weft, corded interlacing, ornamented abrbandi-knit warp, hand spinning. This very strong and bright unique silk fabric named Adras. The panel consists of five hand stitched cloths. The panel is lined with cotton. Estimated price is $5000 in Uzbekistan. It is rather higher in Europe. This ikat is from a privite collection. But its owner is in the hurry, so the price is low. It is in absolutely beautiful condition, no damages, stains, wears, repaires. Cotton lining is absolutely clean. No smells. Wonderful natural dyes and rich saturated colours. The pattern named "tree of life". Bold design of this silk is full of fresh original tribal air. We don't mean to be alarmist, but we sometimes see "silk" that are made of something other than genuine, natural silk. Sometimes silk dealers neglect to pass on this information. Real silk is produced as the cocoon covering of the silkworm, the pupal form of the Asian or mulberry silk moth, bombyx mori. The cocoon is spun by the silk moth caterpillar of a single silk fiber that can be up to several thousand feet in length. To harvest the silk, completed cocoons are boiled or heated to kill the silkworms, then laboriously unwound into single fibers which are plied together and spun into thread or silk yarn.  Silk is extremely high in tensile strength. Real silk makes body well and skin breaths. The skill in ikat is not so much in the weaving as the dyeing. To viewers in search of the crisp colors and pattern definition that characterize woven and embroidered designs, the results might not immediately be seen as exceptional: “Out of focus” is a common description. This is, of course, part of the effect, and today, the dreamy, impressionistic look of ikats has become newly appealing. In an age of mechanization, it virtually spells “handcrafted.” The word ikat comes, however, not from Uzbek, but from the Malay verb mengikat, “to tie.” Ikat is now the word used worldwide, even though the traditional word in Central Asia was abrbandi, which joins the Persian words for “cloud”. The first entails stretching the undyed warp threads on a frame: The design of Uzbek ikats is created solely on the warp, not on the weft. The next step is to sketch on the threads an outline of the intended patterns. The threads are then removed from the frame, and water-repellent bindings of cotton and wax are tied to the parts of the threads that are not meant to be dyed in the first color. The threads are then immersed in the bath of dye. Afterward, the bindings are removed. The result is threads dyed along some parts of their length only. The dyed sections are now bound with more cotton and wax, and the bundled threads are immersed in a second dye bath. The dyer can, of course, overlap colors to mix them: For example, he could start with yellow, and then, if the second color is blue, he could plan for overlaps that will appear green. This process is repeated as many times as necessary to produce the color pattern the designer seeks. When dyeing is finished, the threads are taken to the weaving workshops. In comparison to the enormous effort expended on dyeing, the weaving is relatively simple, if laborious. The refined color scale is the main advantage of Uzbek ikat. .         Please check my other listings.   Thank you !!!    COMBINED SHIPPING If you win more than two lots during a week we will do combined shipping. Shipping price on the second lot will be 50%. It is less on the third. AND IT IS FREE ON THE FOURTH! SAVE MONEY! WE LOVE TO COMBINE!             1. We accept Visa/MC via PayPal, Money Order, Personal check in US dollars to my partners in USA.           2. We accept checks, money orders and wire transfers in EURO through my partners in Germany and France.           3. 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