Green Tasseled Handwoven Wool Cushion Covers, Set of Two
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Tassels are the whole difference here. Two handwoven wool cushion covers in green, 40 × 60 cm apiece (1'4" × 2'0"), woven flat in the kilim manner in Türkiye and finished with tassels. They come as a pair, and as covers rather than as filled cushions.
Green is a difficult color on a small object, because at cushion scale it either disappears into a plant or announces itself as a decision. Wool solves that by refusing to be uniform: the yarn takes dye unevenly along its length, so the face carries a dozen close greens rather than one, and the eye takes it as a texture first and a color second. The tassels do the other half of the work, breaking the rectangle so that the cover sits on a sofa as an object rather than as a panel.
Woven by hand in Türkiye, in wool throughout, on the kind of loom that produces flat kilim rather than knotted pile — which is why the face is thin and even. Wool at this weight will fuzz slightly for the first few weeks and then stop; that is loose fiber leaving, and it is normal. The tassels are the part that wears. They catch on buttons and cuffs, and they are the reason this pair should be cleaned professionally rather than put through a machine.
- Handwoven in wool in Türkiye, in the flat kilim technique.
- A pair; the covers measure 40 × 60 cm (1'4" × 2'0").
- Finished with tassels, which is what separates this pair from the plain one beside it.
- Supplied as covers; inserts are not included.
- Uneven dye uptake in the wool is what gives the green its depth.
- Expect slight fuzzing in the first weeks, then nothing.
- Professional cleaning; tassels do not survive a machine.
- One set at this size.
A tassel is a small thing to build a purchase on, and it is still the reason one of these ends up on the chair and the other on the floor.
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