Ikat wallpaper

A foray between millennial tradition and French heritage

Definitely a traveler IKAT seems to appear in China in the 6th century before swarming in Southeast Asia, India, Mexico etc.

Ancestral weaving and dyeing technique, it is deeply part of each of the cultures it approaches.

Subtle, it requires dyeing the wire before weaving and giving birth to the motive for the intertwining of each of the dyed wires.

In Europe and France, the IKAT will experience a strong craze in the 18th century under the name of Chinese in the branch. Used in particular by Lyon silky for floral prints on silk taffeta, he will know his hours of glory at the court of Louis XVI.

Then abandoned for less expensive techniques the Ikat keeps through the ages a particular aura, representing crafts in its purest expression, that of a long, attentive and patient time.