Antique Central Asian Silk Ikat Adras Fragment From Bukhara, Uzbekistan

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Central Asian Buxårå (Bukhara), Özbekistan (Uzbekistan) Silk Ikat Adras Fragment

Silk Ikat Adras Fragment from Buxårå (Bukhara), Özbekistan (Uzbekistan). Adras … Read more Central Asian Buxårå (Bukhara), Özbekistan (Uzbekistan) Silk Ikat Adras Fragment

Silk Ikat Adras Fragment from Buxårå (Bukhara), Özbekistan (Uzbekistan). Adras Ikats are a mixture of 50 % silk warps and 50 % cotton wefts, which gives its body to the fabric and makes it last longer. They are usually woven 300 – 500 feet / 100 – 150 meters long. Amazing saturated colors from natural dyes. It was previously part of a chapan. Now it has been put together as a pair of panels, surviving to decorate walls. We see diagonal boteh – paisley motifs. Paisley is believed to have developed in eastern cultures from a leaf, evolving into a tree. Others believe that it was flourished under the patronage of the Gurkani (Mughal) Dynasty of North India and that its shape symbolizes a “tear drop”. In any attribution, it is a feminine, beautiful, and peaceful design. Paisleys are used with several great shade of colors which create a movement.

It is dated between 1870 and 1880

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31 ½ ″ x 12 ½ ″ / 80 cm x 32 cm See less