Suzani bags: a new lease on life for a damaged suzani
A few days ago we added to our limited bags collection two new suzani bags, which deserve a post of their own – that’s how gorgeous they are!
In interior decoration suzani embroidery finds its use in every day textiles like cushions, bedspreads, teapot covers and wall hangings. Larger pieces of embroidery (e.g. wall hangings) occasionally get damaged here or there. These damaged parts of the suzani are removed while the rest of the suzani goes on to live as something new. This new product could be a smaller wall hanging, a suzani pillow cover or it could be suzani bags like the ones we recently added to our collection.
The ultimate guide to buying lumbar pillow covers
In the cosmos of pillow covers lumbar pillow covers are just one type which are used widely both for health and decorative purposes. Before we dive into nitty-gritty of lumbar pillow covers let’s first start with a definition of a lumbar pillow.
What is lumbar pillow?
Quoting experts from Everlasting Comfort:
“A lumbar pillow supports the spine by filling the gap between the chair and your lower back. This promotes good posture and supports the natural curve of your back."
In other words, lumbar pillow is something that you place behind your lower back to relieve discomfort associated with extended sitting and to support your back.
Lumbar pillows can be made only for functional purposes and they use as something engineers can do but given that we at UzbekAlive are all about beauty and esthetics we offer amazing lumbar ikat pillow covers to marry function and beauty.
What is ikat design you see in so many fabrics?
Availability of Ikat fabric online created a lot of interest in these unique and noble textiles. The history of Ikat fabrics covers different countries where artisans independently of each other (or not so independently?) created different patterns and used various symbols. We love good stories, especially when it comes to symbols used in fabrics. This blog post is about ikat design, ikat patterns and influences affecting them.
Ikat design is about abstraction. The ikat binding technique and resist dying soften the edges of the ikat pattern making the transition of one color to the next softer, blurrier or cloudier. Hence, the local name for the technique – abr (cloud). The artisan binding the fabrics is known as “abrband” (weaver of clouds).
Ikat design and abstract art
For a land that was at crossroads of so many cultures and changing religious and political influences it was only natural and safe (!) to stick to something that is abstract. A pattern that vaguely looked like a carpet weaving comb could be seen as a lucky amulet if turned upside down.
How to care for ikat fabrics?
How to care for ikat fabrics? This is what this blog post is about. Let me start off with a bit of a history. Ikat, as you may already know since you are on this website, is an Indonesian term for a fabric making technique which requires a specific way of tying