Known as Ikat—meaning "to bind, tie, or wind around" in Malay-Indonesian—the most valuable product on sale at Kumtepa comes to life through painstaking manual dyeing and weaving of individual ...

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IKAT (16A: Southeast Asian dyeing technique) IKAT is a dyeing technique that involves dyeing the yarn before it is woven into fabric. The yarn is tightly bound in the desired pattern before being ...