Tuesday 17 April 2018

What makes ikkat weaving unique?

The popularity of sarees in India never declines, and the variety in which it is available makes them one of the most sold clothing products in the Indian sub-continent. A unique style of manufacturing sarees is the ikkat dying technique which is used to pattern textiles.

In Ikkat sarees wholesale the resist is formed by binding individual yarns or bundles of threads with a tight wrapping applied in the desired pattern. The yarns are then dyed, and the bindings are then altered to create a new design. This whole process is then repeated to create elaborated, multicoloured patterns. These sarees have blurriness in them due to the extreme difficulty weavers have lined up the dyed yarns. The blurriness, multiple colours and complicated patterns are challenging to create and are on the higher side for the price.

Production of ikkat is done in many textile centres around the world from India to Central Asia and Southeast Asia, Japan, Africa and Latin America. In India, there are different indigenous styles of weaving ikkat. The ikkat in Orissa’s Sambalpur is entirely different from that woven in Patan of Gujarat.

Silk or Pattu which is the South Indian name of silk is also one of the most used material in clothes. It was discovered in China in the 27th century, but the use of silk was limited to the Chinese. Traders introduced Silk in India, and it has gained immense popularity since. The three most popular pattu silk sarees are Kanchipuram silk, Banaras silk and Assam silk.

The Kanchipuram silk sarees stand out due to the weaving patterns and the quality of silk used in them. The city of Kanchipuram is famous around the globe, and people buy a large stock of silk sarees from here. More than 5,000 families are involved in saree weaving here.

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