Ikat Panel -Details

The Ikat textiles of Odisha are distinguished from those of Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh- Telangana through their curvilinear forms. Here, a large square panel borrows from the auspicious motif of the conch in Hinduism and Buddhism, as rendered in a saree in the collection of the Calico Museum of Textiles in Ahmedabad. A fringe of floral buds on all sides frames a field of repetitive motifs, a traditional -ritualistic practice to emphasise its talismanic value, as also to offer it in the spirit of the Visvakarma commissions, as an art work with non-religious, decorative values.

Double Ikat means that both the warp and the weft is tie dyed. The weaving is done by plotting the designs on a graph and the pattern unfolds as the weaving progresses.