Kachchh Embroidery - 12" Cushion Cover - Ahir - Desert Diamonds

Nothing can bring your home to life like an embroidered cushion cover. Elegant, playful, colourful, or subtle, these cushion covers provide a stage on which stitch work absolutely sings. Ahir embroidery is often bold featuring motifs of geometric shapes, floral patterns, animals and birds. Their style predominantly has an outline called Sankdi around the mirrors with filling stitches called Vano. Characteristically, Ahir embroidery has round mirrors. These embroideries bring the richness of desert cultures into your hands — heirlooms for the future. Each embroidery is a unique expression of the woman who made it. No two are the same. Size is approx. 12" x 12" Feather forms available for purchase here. Features: Hand embroidered piece featured on a linen background. Each embroidery piece is one of a kind. *All discounted items are final sale ++++ The language of stitches builds within a community over hundreds of years. It is a source of identity that is transferred from one generation to the next. It is learned in the same way a spoken language is learned; with children sitting beside the adults. In an oral culture the stitched language records everything of importance from the…