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ikat fabrics are found among many peoples, including in central and south east asia, china, japan, the middle east, west africa, and latin america. but in uzbekistan, specifically, the fabric became a kind of prestige symbol in the country's culture. the local name for ikat is abr fabrics (abr means
"cloud" in persian), since the patterns resemble light clouds floating in the sky and reflected in the water of a river. in europe, resist-dye fabrics came to be called ikat, from the malay term mengikat, meaning to "wrap" or "tie" (i.e. to tie the threads during the dyeing process to prevent selected...
https://voicesoncentralasia.org/how-ikat-accompanied-history-in-central-asia/