Crimson, Olive & Gold Silk Velvet Ikat Cushion Cover – Mixed Motifs, 38 × 40 cm
$67.00
Handwoven silk velvet ikat (bakhmal) cushion cover from Uzbekistan — 38 × 40 cm (15 × 16 in), cotton back, concealed side zip, cover only. Crimson red; olive green; gold; black; mixed almonds and bars in dense rows. Dry-clean. 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.
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Crimson, olive and gold crowding one another in dense rows — several old motifs in one cloth, cut into the smaller square-ish cover. 38 × 40 cm.
Product details
- Product type: silk velvet ikat cushion cover (bakhmal) — cover only, no insert
- Origin: cloth handwoven in Margilan, Fergana Valley; cover cut and sewn in our workshop in Bukhara, Uzbekistan
- Front: handwoven silk velvet ikat — the pattern is tie-dyed into the silk pile before weaving, so the colour sits in the tips of the pile
- Back: handwoven cotton in a matching colour
- Size: 38 × 40 cm (15 × 16 in)
- Insert: not included — takes a 38 × 40 cm insert
- Closure: concealed zip in the side seam
- Main colours: crimson red; olive green; gold; black
- Design / motif: mixed almonds and bars in dense rows
- Pile direction: the nap runs one way, so the front reads darker or lighter depending on where you sit
- Condition: new
- Care: dry-clean. If you must wash, cold by hand with the insert out, never wring, dry flat with the pile up, never iron the face — steam from the reverse to lift the pile
Where it goes
On a chair back or in a stack of cushions where a small deep-coloured one earns its place. Good against leather and dark wood. More covers in this cloth are under Velvet Ikat Pillow Covers.
How this velvet is made
Bakhmal is the most laborious cloth Uzbek weavers make: the pattern is tied and dyed into the silk before a single pass is woven, and the weaver then works two warps at once — the ground, and the supplementary silk that is lifted over rods and cut by hand, row by row, to stand up as pile. A day at the loom is measured in centimetres. Fewer and fewer masters still do it: by our count only two to four remain in Uzbekistan working silk velvet ikat on a handloom. Because the cloth is woven 40 cm wide, a cover this size comes out of a single width with no join across the pile. Expect what the loom leaves — clouded motif edges, a hairline of colour shift, slight variation in pile height. The same cloth is sold silk velvet ikat by the metre if you would rather sew your own.
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.
| Weight | 0.1 kg |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 40 × 38 cm |
