Blue Sikka Flores and Italian Velour Cushion

This cushion features an exquisite front panel made from authentic Sikka fabric, handwoven by skilled artisans in Sikka, Flores, Indonesia. Renowned for its intricate ikat technique, Sikka fabric is crafted using natural cotton fibres and plant-based dyes, with each pattern reflecting the rich symbolism, ancestral stories, and vibrant traditions of the Sikka people. The back is finished with luxurious Italian silk velour, offering a refined contrast in both texture and colour and creating a harmonious blend of Indonesian heritage and European elegance, making this cushion a truly unique and meaningful accent for your home.

Each cushion is made to order, allowing time for careful craftsmanship and attention to detail. Your piece will be ready for shipping within 15 working days from the date of order.

It will be the most unique present for you, your family, and your colleagues. We invite you to place your order now.

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Dimensions: 50 cm x 50 cm. High-quality insert included. Materials used for the front of the cushion: Handwoven cotton with artisanal natural dyes. Materials used for the back of the cushion: Italian silk velour. All of our cushions are made in Paris, France. Specialised dry clean only.

SKU: FEV001

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The island of Flores in East Nusa Tenggara is home to one of Indonesia's most extraordinary concentrations of weaving cultures, where each regency—Manggarai, Ngada, Ende, Lio, and Sikka—maintains a distinct textile vocabulary rooted in clan identity, ritual function, and a profound relationship with the ancestral spirit world. The dominant technique across the island is ikat, in which warp threads are resist-dyed in complex patterns before the weaving process begins, demanding a form of mental visualization that textile scholars have compared to architectural planning: the weaver must see the finished cloth in the unprocessed thread. This quality of foresight—of beauty anticipated and then realized—places Florenese ikat among the most intellectually demanding of all textile arts.

In the Lio and Sikka regions, ikat cloths known as lawo (women's sarong) and lipa (men's hip cloth) are distinguished by dense, intricate figurative motifs—horses, crocodiles, ancestors—executed in earthy crimson, indigo, and cream against a dark ground. These are not decorative choices made for aesthetic pleasure alone; each motif carries genealogical information about the weaver's clan and spiritual alliances. The result is cloth that functions simultaneously as autobiography, cosmology, and art—a convergence that quietly defines the most extraordinary textiles in our heritage collection.