Red and Blue Cotton Ikat Fabric - Real Ikat Material, Ikat Pure Cotton Fabric By The Yard, Boho Ikat Woven Material

Explore the rich heritage of Ikat weaving with our hand-woven cotton fabric, crafted from 100% natural cotton. This striking fabric features a dynamic tribal pattern in a vivid red base, accented with blue and yellow motifs, making it a bold choice for various design projects.

Our Ikat fabric is incredibly durable and versatile, making it an ideal choice for upholstery projects, including unique lampshades that can significantly alter the atmosphere of a room with their color and design. Its strength also makes it suitable for outdoor use, where it can add a burst of color and withstand the elements in settings such as patio cushions or garden benches.

Quilters will find the intricate patterns of this fabric a delight to work with, providing a colorful and cultural touch to their creations. It also serves exceptionally well as curtain fabric or drapery, offering not just privacy but a stunning visual centerpiece to any room.

For fashion designers, this fabric is perfect for creating standout pieces of clothing or accessories. Its robust and vibrant nature makes it particularly suited for crafting eye-catching handbags that are both stylish and practical, ensuring they hold up under everyday use while adding a pop of color and artisanal flair.

Incorporate our red and blue cotton Ikat fabric into your designs to bring a touch of tradition and modern style to your projects, whether they be for home decor, fashion, or unique crafts. Its versatility and stunning design make it a must-have fabric that embodies both quality and cultural heritage.

Product Details:

• Fabric care instructions: we recommend dry cleaning or cool handwash
• Fabric length: sold by the yard or by the metre
• Fabric width: our Uzbek Ikat fabrics are hand-woven using the traditional narrow hand looms and are comparatively narrow with widths ranging from 36 cm (14") to 64 cm (25") depending on the fabric.
• Fat quarters: for the convenience of our customers, we make fat quarters available. Our fat quarters are 56 cm long (22 inches) and 36 to 46 cm wide (14 to 18 inches).
• Hand-woven: fabrics are hand-loomed in small batches with intervals of about 2.5 yards (2.3 meters), with each interval naturally flowing from one to the next via a connecting pattern that keeps the design continuous.
• Natural and organic: we only use natural dyes, natural organic silk and 100% pure cotton.

Special fabric for your special project.

The Adras Cotton Uzbek Ikat fabrics are hand-made from 100% pure cotton. It is a soft, comfortable and strong material that features a wide range of extraordinary traditional Uzbek Ikat patterns and designs.

About Ikat Fabrics

Hand-loomed and hand-dyed authentic Uzbek Ikat fabric - we are bringing back the original Uzbek Ikats that gained fame during the heyday of the Great Silk Road due to their unique designs, diverse patterns and vibrant colors. Hand-made using the original weaving and dyeing techniques, our fabrics feature the amazing ancient designs of Bukhara, Samarkand and Khiva and are made only using 100% natural fibers and dyes.

Magnificent in their beauty, handmade Uzbek Ikat fabrics boast bright and colorful patterns, thoroughly unique designs and smooth textures thanks to their reliance on all-natural, top-quality silks and velvets. The fabrics are a national treasure of the Central Asian region and have been widely recognized all over the world for their remarkable qualities. You will often see Uzbek Ikats at Fashion Weeks in New York, Paris and Milan, where they are often featured by world-renowned designers in their collections. Vintage Ikat fabrics are also cherished by many prominent museums and private collectors.

The process of hand-dyeing and then hand-weaving the Ikat fabrics is very labor-intensive and follows the most stringent standards of fine craftsmanship. It can take a week of meticulous work to produce just a single piece.

History of Uzbek Ikat Fabrics

Hand weaving has existed in Uzbekistan since the ancient times even before the Great Silk Road first introduced the region's magnificent fabrics to the European, and later, the American continents. These rare fabrics have always been made by hand in very small batches. Passed down from generation to generation, the centuries-old artistic traditions responsible for the unique Ikat techniques and designs live on in modern-day Uzbekistan. Our Uzbek Ikats remain true to their original roots and remain as brilliant and refreshing today as they were centuries ago.

These gorgeous Ikat fabrics are a cultural landmark of Uzbekistan and Central Asia, internationally acclaimed for their infinitely diverse designs. The rich traditional Ikat patterns begin with hand-dyeing the threads. Once placed on the hand loom, the threads gradually form an organized design in the hands of a master artisan inspired by the creative heritage of the ancient Bukhara, Samarkand and Khiva. In capable hands, the Ikat designs can take a limitless number of brilliant shapes. The technique empowers a unique diversity of designs featuring energetic combinations of colors, shapes and patterns that can suit any taste and occasion.

Types of Ikat Fabrics

We can broadly group the majority of Uzbek Ikats into five distinct categories, depending on their material composition, textures and uses, with all five available in our store.

The Silk Shoyi Uzbek Ikats are made from pure silk, and are the finest and lightest of their kind. The Adras Ikats come in silk with a small addition of cotton for extra durability, and can also be made from cotton only, depending on the use case. Khan-Atlas Ikat fabrics, meaning Royal Silk Ikats, are the most illustrious of all, boasting amazing and unforgettable designs with a classy luster. The Bakhmal Ikats are a treasure find famous for their absolutely luxurious all-natural and delicately soft silk velvets, and brilliantly sophisticated patterns.