“Serenity” teal, black and cream hand painted lacquer jewelry box

UzbekAlive owes its beginning to hand painted lacquer boxes made of papier-mâché .

The inspiration came around 2000 from Koshib Omonov, Uzbek artist of lacquer painting in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

The first version of UzbekAlive website was entirely devoted to lacquer hand painted boxes. Slowly we expanded into ikat fabrics, ikat pillow covers, silk scarves and other cultural treasures Uzbekistan offers.

Over the years these jewelry boxes have touched many hearts around the world. We have customers who ordered such hand painted jewelry boxes as gifts for their bridesmaids – an artist customized jewelry boxes by writing names of a newlywed couple on the backside of a lid. People in love used our jewelry boxes to propose to their loved ones. Fathers bought our jewelry boxes for their teenage daughters as their first jewelry box. Whatever the occasion these jewelry boxes win hearts with their beauty and intricate details of painting and make unique and unforgettable gifts.

Art by Koshib Omonov is also presented in Hand Painted Barrettes category.

"Zigzag faded green and beige" 16" (41cm) square ikat pillow cover

SKU IP157
$28.00
In stock: 11 available
Product Details
Fiber content: Cotton / silk blend
Care instructions: Dry clean
Dimension (inches): 16" x 16"
Dimension (cm): 41cm x 41cm

A few historic notes about the fabric used to make this pillow cover: this fabric is from the Soviet days when most of the ikat industry of Uzbekistan was industrialized and state owned. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, big textile factories lost government funding, closed and smaller artisanal shops opened up. This is why, most of the ikats we see these days are hand-woven and narrow (the width is set by hand looms). This specific fabric is one of the wide ikat fabrics made in the big machinery days.

This is a 16" (41cm) square pillow cover made of a machine woven cotton / silk blend ikat fabric. The pillow cover is machine washable.

This pillow cover closes with an invisible zipper and fits standard 16" (41cm) pillow inserts.

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"Zigzag faded green and beige" 16" (41cm) square ikat pillow cover