0 a method of dyeing (= adding colour to) thread after tying it, then using it to make cloth with complicated patterns of many colours, or cloth that is made in this way: --
Sometimes warp and weft threads were tie-dyed and then woven, creating "ikat" patterns.
The northeast is known for using raw silk and cotton, and tye-dying raw silk known as "matmii" or ikat.
Among the dyeing techniques may have been ikat.
Ikat is a method of tie-dyeing the warp or weft before the cloth is woven.
There is also an important production of ikat shawls rebozos with elaborately knotted fringes.
A kebaya is usually worn with a sarong or batik "kain panjang", or other traditional woven garment such as ikat, songket with a colorful motif.
Traditionally, ikat are symbols of status, wealth, power and prestige.
Weft ikat are commonly employed where pattern precision is of less aesthetic concern than the overall resultant fabric.
