Ikat: Splendid Silks of Central Asia

by Kate Fitz Gibbon, Andrew Hale

$65 · Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller

First edition

London: Laurence King Publishing, 1997. First edition. Softcover. Folio. 208pp. Original illustrated wrappers with black lettering on cover, red and white on spine. The ikat silks of 19th-century Central Asia are unrivalled in their inventive designs, resplendent colours and technical mastery. Ikat is an ancient technique, in which colours are applied to silk warp yarns in a multi-stage, tie-dye resist method before being

• Binding: Softcover

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