Dark Brown and Red Cotton Lumbar Ikat Cushion Cover

Red centres burn through dark brown flames on a cream-streaked ground. The brown reads almost black in evening light, and the red is the only thing that keeps the cover from disappearing into a dark sofa.

Product details

• Product type: lumbar ikat cushion cover — cover only, insert not included
• Composition: 100% 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: dark brown, red, cream
• Motif: flame columns with red centres
• Care: Machine wash on a gentle cycle at 30 °C with the insert out, or hand wash; dry in the shade; iron on the reverse
• Origin: cloth handwoven in Margilan, cover sewn in Bukhara, Uzbekistan

Where it goes

It suits a leather sofa, a wooden settle, or a chair beside a fireplace, and takes a gentle machine wash. 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.