Green and Red Silk Ikat Cushion Cover

Green, red and yellow medallions crowd a grey and cream ground, each with a dark eye at its centre. Green next to red is the hardest pairing to keep clean in a dye vat, and the grey between them is doing the work.

Product details

• Product: ikat cushion cover — cover only, no insert included
• Composition: 50% silk, 50% cotton
• Front and back: the same handwoven ikat on both faces, so the cover is reversible
• Size: a square cover; the exact measurement is confirmed when the piece is rewoven
• Closure: concealed zip in the side seam
• Main colours: green, red, yellow, grey, cream
• Motif: medallions with eyed centres
• Care: Hand wash in cool water with the insert out, or dry-clean; do not wring; dry flat in the shade; iron on the reverse while slightly damp
• Origin: cloth handwoven in Margilan, Fergana Valley; cover cut and sewn in Bukhara

Where it goes

It ties together a room with several colours already in it, and works on a cream or tan sofa. More ikat cushion covers, or the same cloth by the metre if you would rather sew your own.

How this ikat is made

The pattern is tied and dyed into the warp threads before a single row is woven — abrbandi, the cloud-binding. The weaver works to a design that exists only as knots on a stretched warp, and every extra colour is another round of tying and dyeing. That is why the edges feather rather than cut sharp, and why no two covers are quite the same. The cloth is handwoven in Margilan, in the Fergana Valley; the cover is cut and sewn in our own workshop in Bukhara.

Availability

This cover is out of stock. The cloth is handwoven in small runs, so it is not always on the shelf — but the design can be woven again. If you would like this one, tell us through the contact page and we will let you know when it can be made and how long the weaving will take.