VINTAGE BEAUTIFUL UZBEK NATURAL SILK IKAT CHEMISE WITH

We're proud of to offer a true sample of traditional national Uzbek Chemise-Kuilak. As the Soviet era ended and Westerners discovered Central Asian folk arts, the Uzbek garments became very popular for their comfortable, rich saturated colors, original designs and bold exotic patterns. East_treasures offers you antique and modern garments, affordably priced and in beautiful condition. Our items are genuine folk art, made by long-term tradition and classical technology. We use only natural ecological materials giving comfort, relax and cozy.

Bold design of the chemise  is full of fresh original tribal air. It is made of natural hand-made silk-ikat calls Khan-atlas. This nice colored Khan-atlas was very popular in Uzbekistan during the Soviet era. It was produced in Ferghana valley. 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. 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.

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