Luxury Decoration With Silk Ikat Pillow

By angguncakti

Friday 8 April 2016

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Does your sofa need some pillows? Maybe you have a really dull looking sofa that is not adding any colour to your room. How about considering putting some new sofa pillows like silk ikat pillow.  This one of the most interesting parts of the Folk Art of Uzbekistan is a pillow-slip production. Offered here is a pillow case with a natural cotton pillow inside. It is made of pure silk ikat velvet "Bakhmal". There is a zipper to close the cover. Hidden slide fastener design for good looking. It is fully made with natural eco-friendly materials.  This decorative pillow can fully change atmosphere of home. It’ll fill your environment with warm and coziness making stylish and exquisite decor.

 Silk Ikat Pillow

This Art of designing of Uzbek fabrics is indeed an outstanding phenomenon of popular art. It combines high traditions of antiquity and vivid sense of modernity. Various plain and patterned handcrafted cotton, silk, semisilk fabrics of complex and simple textures were produced in Samarkand, Bukhara, Margilan, Kitab and others. The fabrics were used for making national traditional dresses and home decorations. The most famous were dense and woven of cotton and silk: piled velvet "bakhmals", repp, adras, bekasab, banoras. Methods of ornamentation of these fabrics were mainly in strip and pattern, the main features of which were indistinct with blurred contours. This method is called "abrbandi" in Central Asia, and the fabrics "abr". The main pattern-formatting importance of stripped and abr fabrics contains the foundation. Uzbek fabrics attract by the beauty of colors, pure and plain dyes. Of all the textile arts of Central Asia it is the abr velvet fabric called "Bahkmal" that you will probably find the most exciting. The brilliance in color and extraordinary pattern designs are reminiscent of modern painting. Many of the motifs originated from flowers, fruits, animals, household items and images that are in people's daily lives. You can choose what do you want before you buy.

 Silk Ikat Pillow

The region of Alo Bakhmal is Bukhara, Uzbekistan. It is a pure silk handcrafted abr velvet fabric. Warp threads In Bakhmal pile were dyed using the ikat technique. The production of Alo Bakhmal was very expensive and only reach people could afford such a luxury - to own a chapan robe made of it. So, if you have a lot money you can buy this silk ikat pillow to added at your home.

 Silk Ikat Pillow

This wonderful fabric had been produced for several years in the late 19th century, after which the production stopped and the technique was lost. Only few samples of "bakhmal" were kept in museums after that. But in 2002 the old technique was restored in Marghilan, Uzbekistan. There are very few craftsmen, nowadays, who produce such fabric. Today Alo Bakhmal is a dream of all textile collectors, and just an amazing example of Uzbek craftsmen skill. If you interested with this silk ikat pillow, you can buy at the stores or check at the shops online like ebay.com.

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