Ryukyu Kasuri

Kasuri (ikat) is a type of weaving technique where the threads are bound in places before dyeing in order to produce resist-dyed patterns when the threads are woven into cloth. When only the warps are bound, it is called warp kasuri (tategasuri ) and when only the wefts are bound, it is weft kasuri (yokogasuri), if both the warp and weft have kasuri it is called tateyokogasuri. The origin of the word kasuri comes from the Japanese expression for the hazy (kasureta) edges of the kasuri pattern.