Types of Ikkat Silk Sarees

In Telangana State, the Pochampally silk sarees also known as Ikkat is likewise prevalently known as Buddabhashi, Chitki and Pogudubandhu. Be that as it may, it is known as Pochampally the whole way across the nation.

By and large, Ikkats are of two kinds

Twist ikat or Single Ikat is a tie and color technique where just the twist is oppose colored and afterward woven with the weft. The weft might be colored with single shading or have no shading by any stretch of the imagination. In such a system, the example is obviously noticeable on the twist even before it is woven with weft. Twist yarn could be of silk, jute, cotton or some other reasonable fiber.

Weft ikat is where you will see color designs on the weaving weft yarns. Subsequently, the ikat examples will get obvious as the weaving advances. Such system is tedious as craftsmans need to exactly arrange the weft yarns for flawless plan results. It is commonly utilized when generally results are significantly more significant than accuracy of examples.

Twofold Ikat is where both-the twist and the weft experience oppose coloring system. After which, they are woven into a solitary material. In actuality, this is the most troublesome and costly sort of weaving process.

Pochampally Ikat utilizes the twofold Ikkat strategy for moving mind boggling designs onto the material.

Key Differentiation between Ikat versus Batik

In batik or other oppose coloring strategies, by and large the oppose is applied straightforwardly onto the woven texture.

Yet, in Ikat, the oppose coloring is completed on yarns, and afterward on they are woven into the ideal fabric. In Ikat sarees, the surface plan is forced on yarns and not on woven material, so both the essences of texture highlight designs.

Something else that makes Ikat stand apart from the rest is the obvious fogginess of the geometric plan. The haziness connotes how incredibly troublesome it was for the weaver to arrange colored yarns to ensure the completed fabric has impeccable Ikat designs.

Ikkat sarees with confounded examples, different shading tones and slight fogginess are very troublesome and tedious to make. Consequently, these sarees are substantially more costly than the ones with straightforward examples.

Different kinds of Ikkat

In any case, aside from these, there are a plenty of Ikat strategies prospering in different pieces of India.

A portion of the mainstream ikat weaving methods are as per the following:

• The indigenous Sambalpuri Ikat rehearsed in Orissa is very multifaceted.
• Whereas the Patan Patola-an uncommon strategy of Double Ikat is made in Patan of Gujarat. Patan Patola flaunts sharp Ikat examples and requests extraordinary exertion in coloring and weaving. It is utilized premium silk yarns and for the most part includes bunches of hues. Some Patan patola sarees may have no rehashes, though others have rehashed themes all through the saree.
• Another twofold ikat weaving is additionally completed in Puttapaka of Nalgonda District and it is known as Puttapaka Saree.
• Orissa's Pasapalli ikat saree has a checkered plan on it and utilizations a similar strategy as the Sambalpuri ikat. 'Pasapalli' word gets itself from the word 'Pasa' which implies a checkered tabletop game (like Ludo).