Wholesale Suzani Pillow - Marigold Paisley - Hand Embroidered Uzbek Textile

This beautiful hand embroidered suzani fabric is sourced from Uzbekistan. We cut and sew the pillow by hand in our Houston workshop. A marigold ground carries large boteh paisleys in crimson, slate blue, sage and blush, set among scrolling leaves. The reverse is green and yellow ikat with magenta dots, and a feather down insert is included. Suzani takes its name from suzan, the Persian word for needle. The tradition belongs to Uzbekistan and the old Silk Road towns: Bukhara, Samarkand, Shakhrisabz, Nurata and Tashkent each worked their own motifs and palettes, and a trained eye can still place a panel by them. A suzani was embroidered by hand by a bride and the women of her family, often begun years before a wedding and carried into the new household as part of her dowry. It served as a bed cover, a wall hanging or a wrapping cloth, and it was not made for sale. The ground cloth came off a narrow hand loom, so a panel was embroidered in strips and then joined, which is why the motifs on a suzani often do not line up exactly across a seam. Most of the work is basma, a couched satin stitch, and yurma, a chain stitch worked with a hook. Every panel is different, so each pillow is a single piece and cannot be repeated. DIMENSIONS AND SPECS 19" x 19" Hand embroidered suzani face, cotton and silk Handwoven ikat reverse Feather down insert included Sewn in Houston, Texas ORDERING No minimum order quantity. One of one: quantity available is 1. Ships in 3 to 5 business days. VARIATIONS Six suzani pillows are available, each cut from a different panel. No two are the same, and none of them can be remade.