At Sat,  7 Feb 2009 11:47:37 +1100, stils...@netspace.net.au wrote:

...You can vary the thread for colour as you go but, amazingly in Bali, I
saw thread pre-dyed at various points so as to create a regular pattern. I would give twenty zillion dollars for my brane to remember the term for this technique but it is 115 degrees here and I am not about to go thinking. Still, the pattern is fantastic, a little blurred at the edges due to the in-exact way the pattern
comes out.

I believe that technique is called "ikat".



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