Red and Blue Lumbar Ikat Cushion Cover

Blue and charcoal bands frame a white centre panel carrying red and yellow medallions. Five colours in one warp, and the bands mean the tying had to serve a stripe and a motif at the same time.

Product details

• Product type: lumbar ikat cushion cover — cover only, insert not included
• Composition: 50% silk, 50% cotton
• Both faces are cut from the same ikat, so the cover is reversible
• Size: 36 × 58 cm (14 × 23 in); takes a 36 × 58 cm lumbar insert
• Closure: concealed zip in the side seam
• Main colours: red, blue, yellow, charcoal, white
• Motif: banded panels with eyed medallions
• 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, cover sewn in Bukhara, Uzbekistan

Where it goes

It works on a cream or linen sofa, a wooden settle, or a chair in a room that already has colour in it. See the rest of the lumbar cushion covers, or the square ikat pillow covers in the same cloth.

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. Every soft edge on this cover is the dye finding its way past a tie, which is why no two lumbar covers off the same bolt are identical. The cloth is handwoven in Margilan, in the Fergana Valley; the cover is cut and sewn in our own workshop in Bukhara.

Sewn to order and dispatched from Bukhara within 24 hours by Uzbekiston Pochtasi tracked airmail: USA 9–18 working days, Europe and the UK 8–16, elsewhere 10–20. Custom sizes take 2–3 working days.