Ikat, a meticulous yarn-dyeing technique, creates patterns in the wool once woven. A characteristic of ikat, that’s prized by textile collectors, is the blurriness along the edges of the patterns due to the difficulty of lining up the dyed yarns.
There are three ways to produce ikat: warp ikat where the lengthwise yarns are dyed; weft ikat where the transverse yarns are dyed; and double ikat where both warp and weft yarns are dyed.
