Fifty-centimetre squares cut from hand-embroidered suzani — silk chain stitch and couching on a cotton ground, worked in the Bukhara, Nurata and Urgut manner — and sewn in Bukhara with a concealed zip across the back and a plain ikat backing, nearly always beige. A cushion is the cheapest way to own a piece of suzani, and each one is a different corner of a different cloth: $62 to $114, cover only, insert not included. Many are cut from vintage Soviet-era suzani and say so; none are antiques, which Uzbekistan does not permit to leave the country.
Fit a 55 cm insert. Stock in this section is small and moves quickly. Orders leave Bukhara within 24 hours by tracked airmail: USA 9–18 working days, Europe 8–16, elsewhere 10–20.
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A suzani cover is a 50 cm window onto a much larger cloth. The dowry suzani was worked on strips of cotton by several women, in basma couching for the big rosettes and yurma chain stitch for the vines, and a cover is cut so that one rosette or one spray sits whole in the square; the embroidery is silk, the ground cotton, and on the reverse of the panel the stitches travel. Some of our covers are cut from Urgut work, the small town near Samarkand whose embroiderers still stitch dense floral fields for the market; the Suzani Embroidery page explains the schools, and the symbols post tells you what the pomegranate and the scorpion mean.
The panel goes on the front; the back is a plain, mostly beige handwoven ikat, so the cover is two Uzbek cloths in one and the zip across the back never cuts the embroidery. The 50 × 50 cm cover takes a 55 cm insert.
Remove the insert. Dry-clean by preference; some listings allow a separate cool machine wash, and if you do that use a wash bag, no spin, and press on the reverse over a towel. Keep embroidered covers out of direct sun.
At Alesouk, 50 × 50 cm (20 in), with one at 45 × 45 cm; fit a 55 cm insert. The cover has a concealed zip across the back and no insert.
Yes: silk chain stitch and couching on a cotton ground, cut from hand-embroidered Uzbek suzani, some of it vintage Soviet-era work and some from Urgut near Samarkand, and sewn in Bukhara.
A plain handwoven ikat, nearly always beige, with the concealed zip across it; the embroidered panel is on the front only.
$62 to $114 at Alesouk, depending on the density and age of the embroidery. Stock is small and each cover is unique.
Dry-clean by preference; where the listing allows a cool machine wash, use a wash bag and no spin, and press on the reverse. Remove the insert first.
Yes, worldwide by tracked airmail from Bukhara, Uzbekistan, within 24 hours: USA 9–18 working days, Europe and the UK 8–16, elsewhere 10–20.
