The New Ikat Edit
Timeless style,thoughtfullystitched
Elegant pieces made for every occasion — hand-finished in heritage ikat, cut for the modern woman.
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Curated for every occasion
The House of Riffat
Where heritage threads meet a modern silhouette
IKAT by Riffat began at a single loom-side table, with a love for the feathered edges of resist-dyed cloth. Every piece is designed in our Lahore studio, where traditional ikat motifs are re-drawn, re-coloured and stitched into clothing you can live in — from slow mornings to celebrations that run past midnight.
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The Ikat Heritage
Dyed before it is woven
Ikat is one of the world's oldest textile arts. Threads are bound and dyed before they ever meet the loom, so the pattern lives inside the cloth — and its soft, feathered edges are the signature of the human hand.
- Bind (current)
- Dye
- Weave
- Stitch
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Bind
Bundles of warp threads are tied by hand to resist the dye, mapping the motif thread by thread.
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Dye
Each colour is a separate bath — rose, terracotta, sage — re-tied and re-dipped in sequence.
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Weave
The threads are aligned on the loom; the motif emerges with its characteristic blur.
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Stitch
In our studio the cloth is cut, finished and detailed into pieces made to last.