The Earliest Cotton Ikat Textiles from Nahal ‘Omer Israel 650–810 CE

Shamir, Orit; Baginski, Alisa

doi:10.2307/j.ctvh1dpz7.9

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“…Research has shown that the practice originated independently in different continents. Ikat is a process as well as a style of weaving that uses a resist dyeing process similar to tie-dye on either the warp or weft before the threads are woven to create a pattern or design [13]. Ikat is a yarn-resist dyeing that involves the sequence of tying and dyeing sections of bundled yarn to a pre-determined colour scheme or pattern, before weaving.…”

Section: Ikat Fabric Decoration Techniquementioning

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IKKente: Fusion of Ikat Technique into Asante Traditional Kente Weaving

Gyasi,

Adom,

Oppong

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The Asante Kente is unquestionably the most popular and best-known of all African textiles. It has attracted the attention of many for centuries due to its uniqueness. The aesthetic appeal of Kente has been significantly improved over the years as a result of variations in design and production techniques. However, its design and production could be further improved and enhanced for the Asante Traditional Kente weaving industry to meet contemporary standards and market demands. Hence, this study sought to innovatively incorporate the Ikat technique – a patchy yarn dyeing decorative technique into the Asante traditional Kente weaving. The researchers utilized the studio-based research design under the qualitative research approach. The procedural steps in the Double Helix of Praxis-Exergesis Model which consisted of exploration, production, and evaluation, were adopted for the study. Personal interview was the principal data collection instrument used in collecting data from 12 purposefully sampled traditional Asante Kente weavers from six different communities in the Ashanti region of Ghana. The findings of the study revealed the possibility of fusing the two cloth production techniques to produce one common cloth that was named IKKente. The study recommends that this yarn decoration method should be encouraged among dyers and weavers to boost the local weaving industry in Ghana.

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Section: Ikat Fabric Decoration Techniquementioning

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IKKente: Fusion of Ikat Technique into Asante Traditional Kente Weaving

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Adom,

Oppong

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“…Wool fibers (sheep in this case) are characterized by a unique cellular appearance of overlapping scale-like structure (Fig 5), which is unlike any other fiber [72,73], including linen (also found in the Timna assemblage together with goat hair [6]). Wool played an important role in the dyeing industry and was the best raw material for dyeing in the Levant prior to the introduction of cotton and silk [67,[74][75][76][77][78]. This is because the protein composition of the fiber allows better absorption of the dye than that of the linen fiber [79,80].…”

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Early evidence of royal purple dyed textile from Timna Valley (Israel)

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In the context of a broad study aimed at examining dyeing technologies in the Timna textiles collection, three samples of prestigious fibers dyed with murex sea snail were identified. Our identification is based on the presence of 6-monobromoindigotin and 6,6-dibromoindigotin components (detected using HPLC analysis), which is considered unequivocal evidence for the use of murex-derived purple dyestuff. Furthermore, by comparing the analytical results with those obtained in a series of controlled dyeing experiments we were able to shed more light on the specific species used in the dyeing process and glean insights into the ancient dyeing technology. The samples originated from excavations at the extensive Iron Age copper smelting site of “Slaves’ Hill” (Site 34), which is tightly dated by radiocarbon to the late 11th–early 10th centuries BCE. While evidence for the important role of purple dyes in the ancient Mediterranean goes back to the Middle Bronze Age (early 2nd millennium BCE), finds of dyed textiles are extremely rare, and those from Timna are the oldest currently known in the Southern Levant. In conjunction with other observations of the very high quality of the Timna textiles, this provides an exceptional opportunity to address questions related to social stratification and organization of the nomadic society operating the mines (early Edom), the “fashion” of elite in the region during the early Iron Age, trade connections, technological capabilities, and more.

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“…The textiles from this site, potentially locally produced, pose a new challenge as they are all woven with Z-spun yarns, which are generally attributed to Indian manufacture. Finally, the question of the local introduction of cotton plants at that time remains open for several other areas where we only know the presence of cotton fabrics: in the Fayum, in Bahariya oasis and around Oxyrhynchus in Middle Egypt, or around the Dead Sea, all places where cotton production is well attested a few centuries later (see for an example at Jericho, Shamir and Baginski 2014). The accumulation of different types of evidence provides an increasingly complete description of cotton history in the Old World.…”

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“…Apart from Madâ'in Sâlih, where the textiles' local origin was tentatively suggested (Bouchaud et al 2011), these textiles are generally considered imported, as no other evidence, such as plant remains, attests their potential local production. The importance of cotton textiles increases from the 8 th century onwards around the Dead Sea, as demonstrated by the discoveries in the Jericho region (Shamir 2015;Shamir and Baginski 2013) and in the Aravah valley (Shamir and Baginski 2014). For this later period authors are more disposed to consider that the cotton was grown locally (Shamir and Baginski 2013:82).…”

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