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TextileGI Tagged · 2013-14
Patan Patola
TownPatan
StateGujarat
Craft typeTextile
GI tag2013-14
About
An extraordinarily labour-intensive double ikat weaving technique where both the warp and weft threads are separately tie-dyed before weaving, so the pattern appears identically on both sides of the fabric with no wrong side.
Did you know? A single Patan Patola saree can take four to six months and up to a year to complete, and traditionally only a handful of families in Patan — the Salvi weavers — have ever held the knowledge of this exact double-ikat method.