Global Ikat: Roots and Routes of a Textile TechniqueWritten by Polly Barton, Sumru Belger Krody, Shelley Burian, Duncan Clarke, Rosemary Crill, Martina DAmato, Linda S. McIntosh and Lee Talbot Deceptively simple or fantastically intricate, the ikat technique has been used for centuries to create extravagant costumes and clothes of deep cultural meaning. The distinctively blurred, feathered or jagged patterns of ikat dyed textiles are found across much of the worldfrom Japan in the east to Central and