Ikat

Name: Sadie Laing
Class: DS 229, Weaving 1, Marianne Fairbanks
Major: Textile Design


This piece is an indigo dyed ikat weaving. Ikat is a resist dyeing technique done to the fibers before being placed onto the loom. After the fibers are resist dyed they are threaded through the loom, slightly shifting creating the feathered look that is ikat.