{"product_id":"ikat-drum-lampshade-adras-blue-black","title":"Ikat Drum Lampshade · Adras · Blue \u0026 Black","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA drum lampshade cut from adras, a silk-and-cotton ikat woven using abrbandi, the UNESCO-listed Intangible Cultural Heritage resist-dyeing technique where the yarns carry the design before the cloth is woven on a traditional loom. The pattern reads as a mirrored, cloud-like form in blue, grey, black and ivory, its soft edges typical of hand-bound thread. Made with natural colours in Margilan, Uzbekistan, by master dyer Aziz Murtazaev, whose work carries the UNESCO Seal of Excellence.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Craft.\u003c\/strong\u003e The pattern on this lampshade begins with abrbandi – the resist-dyeing technique behind Uzbek ikat. From abr (cloud), abrbandi is said to have been born when a master dyer, watching clouds break apart on the surface of still water, tried to bind that fractured, drifting edge into thread. Before weaving, sections of thread are bound tightly by hand with fibre that resists dye; where the binding holds, the thread stays undyed, and where it doesn't, colour penetrates. This piece is woven as adras – a fabric that pairs a silk warp with a cotton weft, giving it more body and a slightly more matte hand than pure silk ikat, while still carrying the same blurred, migrating pattern in the weave. Once dyed and woven, the cloth is cut and seamed flat around the shade's cylindrical frame, the panel joined at the back so the design meets itself in a mirrored repeat around the drum.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Heritage.\u003c\/strong\u003e Silk has moved through the oasis cities of now Uzbekistan for the better part of two thousand years. Legend holds that the first cocoons reached the Fergana Valley hidden inside the hollow staves of travelling monks, smuggled out of a China that fiercely guarded the secret of silk. By the tenth century, Margilan was already written of as a city of silk, and its weavers were sending fabric down the caravan routes to Baghdad, Kashgar, Egypt and beyond. Adras itself developed as a more affordable, everyday counterpart to pure silk atlas – the cotton weft made it sturdier and better suited to daily wear, without giving up the ikat pattern that made the fabric recognisable. In 2017 UNESCO inscribed Uzbekistan's abr silk-making on its list of Intangible Cultural Heritage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Maker. \u003c\/strong\u003eBorn in Margilan, Aziz Murtazaev did not train in a family workshop, but studied languages and business. He worked for a time in finance in London, and went back to Margilan for reasons closer to the dye vats than the ledger. It is colour that holds him. He works with what the valley grows and has brought back methods Margilan had mostly set down, like block printing by hand. Aziz leads Marikat, a cooperative of independent ikat masters, dyers and weavers dedicated to the preservation of traditional craftsmanship and cultural values, and their transfer to the next generation. Aziz's work carries the UNESCO Seal of Excellence for Handicraft Products.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Handmade in Uzbekistan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53779155583242,"sku":null,"price":160.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0711\/1013\/1978\/files\/IKAT_Drum_Lampshade_Blue_Grey_07.jpg?v=1790523519","url":"https:\/\/omagoshop.eu\/products\/ikat-drum-lampshade-adras-blue-black","provider":"OMAĜO","version":"1.0","type":"link"}