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INDIGO INFUSIONS CONCEPT SONYA BATTLA FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY RIZWAN UL HAQ CATALOGUE DESIGN FARHAN AHMED MIAN
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Treading the line between blue and violet, indigo’s position in the colour spectrum is as unsettled as the ocean.
all about indigo.
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Take advantage of this flexibility by using the full range of hues - bright, deep, electric, imperial - on everything from soft fabrics to hard surfaces for a sophisticated look and feel.
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PRIZED BLURINESS
In ikat the individual yarns are bound with a tight wrapping applied in the desired pattern. The yarns are then dyed. The bindings may then be altered to create a new pattern and the yarns dyed again with another colour. This process may be repeated multiple times to produce elaborate, multicolored patterns. A characteristic of ikat textiles is an apparent blurriness to the design. The blurriness is a result of the extreme difficulty the weaver has lining up the dyed yarns so that the pattern comes out perfectly in the finished cloth.
The blurriness can be reduced by using finer yarns or by the skill of the craftsperson. Ikats with little blurriness, multiple colours and complicated patterns are more difficult to create and therefore often more expensive. However, the blurriness that is so characteristic of ikat is often prized by textile collectors.
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Ikat is a dyeing technique used to pattern textiles that employs resist dyeing on the yarns before it is dyed and woven.
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Patterns for weaving are written in a form called a “draft”. Weaving drafts are standardized short-hand ways of explaining how to set up a loom to weave a particular pattern.
Sometimes it seems more like a confusing barrier than an aid to communication. No format is “right” or “wrong”; they are just a different way of conveying the same information.
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MARINE
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LOON
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