Daraayi: The Persian Ikat Thread Running Through Kiumarsi’s Collections

Close-up of daraayi fabric

Long before a single thread touches the loom, a daraayi weaver has already decided what the finished cloth will look like. That’s the paradox at the heart of this Iranian textile tradition: the pattern exists before the fabric does. It is tied into the yarn, dyed into place, and only revealed, thread by thread, as […]