Silk Brocade Cushion Covers - Set of 5, 16x16 Indian Pillow Covers

What brocade is

Brocade is woven, not printed. The pattern is built into the cloth on the loom with a supplementary weft thread, which is why the motif has a slight raised texture you can feel with a thumb and why it does not fade or crack the way a print does. It is the same construction used for Banarasi saris.

Why this set

These are the plainest of our four sets and the easiest to live with. The motif is a small repeating diamond rather than a large figurative design, so from across a room they read as texture and colour rather than as pattern. That makes them the set to buy if the cushions have to sit on a sofa year-round rather than come out for a week at Diwali.

What is in the set

• Gold - diamond weave on a gold ground
• Pink - the same weave in pink
• Green - the same weave in green
• Red - the same weave in red
• Multicolour stripe - red, yellow, green and pink banded across the face

Four solids and one stripe. The stripe is the one that ties the other four together, which is why the set is built this way rather than as five separate colours.

Where they go

Across a three-seat sofa, where five is exactly the right number. Split two and three between a sofa and an armchair. On a bed as the front row over plain pillows. On floor cushions for a pooja or mehendi setup. They also work on outdoor seating for an evening, brought in after.

The rest of the range

We make four sets of five at the same 16 inch size, so they mix: the Bandhani set, the elephant motif set and the Banarasi floral set. Buying two sets and splitting them across a sofa and an armchair reads better than ten of one design in a row.

For the table below the sofa, the silk table runner is woven in the same brocade.

Gifting

Five covers in one box makes an easy Diwali or housewarming gift - it needs no sizing, no colour matching to the recipient's furniture, and it packs flat. Tell us at checkout if you are sending it directly and we will leave the invoice out.