#ikat

[vintagehomecollection]

Interior Visions: Great American Designers and the Showcase House, 1988

[julochka365]

23/7.2026 - it was a long, but good day, dressing my loom with the ikat warp. it took three of us, thankfully two much more experienced than me and we all learned a lot. i can't wait to get started. i'm anxiously awaiting the arrival of my new viftekam (another of those things I don't know the name of in English, as I have learned weaving in Danish) - a fan reed, perhaps? But I still have a lot to do before I need it and it should arrive next week.

[sol-une]

[murenger]

[thevisualvamp]

Have a seat

[wildbeautifuldamned]

Emperor Bird Wool Silk UnUsed BOLT By the Yard Japanese Kimono Fabric BW99 ebay YokoBeverlyHills

[tanuki-kimono]

Antique meisen (ikat weave) kimono with pointy yukinokesshô (snow crystal). I love how they look much more like deadly shuriken than the traditional cute and fluffy yukiwa (stylized snowflake) :D

[dimipea]

First Ikat weaving! It's kasuri.

I don't have a photo of the whole thing ironed sorry lol, I hemmed them and turned them into square cloths. I measured and dyed thread so it would make a pattern when I wove it. The dyeing took so long but undoing all the knots I made dyeing it took the same amount of time it took to weave it I'm p sure. My prof lent me Japanese Ikat Weaving by Jun and Noriko Tomita and it was super helpful. I loved looking at pictures of vintage and modern kasuri they were so beautiful.