About Cambodian Pidan Ikat
The hol pidan is a roughly four-meter pictorial weft-ikat silk hanging displayed above the Buddha in Theravada pagodas. Dyed entirely with natural resists — lac-insect red, indigo, prohut-bark yellow-green, and ebony-bark black — its field reads as warm earth browns glowing on a dark dyed ground.
This design system translates that devotional textile into screen: a deep ebony-indigo page, warm-brown narrative figures, banded horizontal composition, and the soft feathered edges that are the unmistakable signature of ikat resist-dyeing.
- Origin
- Cambodia (Southeast Asia)
- Era
- pre-1900 tradition continuing to pre-1970s Theravada pagoda use
- Key figures
- Khmer master silk ikat weavers · Khmer natural dyers
- Movements
- Khmer hol/pidan pictorial weft-ikat tradition · Theravada Buddhist temple textiles
Cambodian Pidan Ikat design spec
Colors
Typography
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