Floral white pink green hand embroidered suzani pillow cover from Uzbekistan

Our collection of suzani embroidered pillow covers includes hand embroidered suzani pillow covers as well as machine embroidered ones. The base fabric of each suzani pillow cover is an undyed cotton cloth. Embroidery threads are hand dyed silk floss.

The term suzani derives from a Farsi word for a needle, ‘suzan”. According to Uzbek traditions girls learnt an art of suzani embroidery from an early age and embroidered various things for their dowries. These embroidered pieces were bedcovers, pillow covers and various other textile items. Soul finds its reflection in a work that the soul makes. This is why, one could read a character of a girl by inspecting her suzani. Is she joyous? is she peaceful? Does she pay attention to details?

Please also check out our Suzani embroidery section for some suzani table runners and suzani tableclothes.

 

"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