Indonesia: Flores – Ikat Weaving

Ikat is a special weaving and dying technique that is common is Southeast Asia and Indonesia in particular. The individual yarn strains are dyed into different natural colors with natural dyes and then weaved together into amazing geometric patterns. It’s all manual and you can see it in many villages in the eastern side of the island of Flores.
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