{"product_id":"butterflies-pekalongan-batik-with-italian-silk-velvet","title":"Butterflies Pekalongan Batik with Italian Silk Velvet","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book',sans-serif;\"\u003eAn exquisite flight of butterflies.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book',sans-serif;\"\u003eThis cushion celebrates the artistry of Pekalongan batik from Central Java, Indonesia. Its face is cut from authentic hand-drawn batik, with cherished animal motifs and colours drawn from the region's landscape. Each pattern is worked by the traditional wax-resist method — an expression of Pekalongan's centuries-old reputation for bold, characterful design.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book',sans-serif;\"\u003eThe reverse is finished in Italian silk velvet, a sumptuous counterpoint of texture and sheen. The result is a considered dialogue between Indonesian craftsmanship and Italian elegance: a striking accent for any interior.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book',sans-serif;\"\u003eEvery cushion is made to order, so that nothing is hurried and each detail receives the attention it deserves. Your piece will be ready within 15 working days from the date of order. A gift worth giving — to someone you love, or to yourself. We invite you to place your order.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book',sans-serif;\"\u003eDimensions: 50 x 50 cm. High-quality insert included. Front: hand-drawn cotton, made by artisans. Back: Italian silk velvet. Made in Paris, France. Specialist dry clean only.SKU: PIV1\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Franklin Gothic Book',sans-serif;\"\u003e ----------------------\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eItaly's reputation for luxury cloth was built on silk, and on four cities. Between roughly 1300 and 1550, Lucca, Venice, Florence, and Genoa dominated European silk weaving, working raw fibre from Persia, Syria, Greece, and the Balkans alongside domestic sericulture. The drawloom was the defining technology, lifting warp threads in programmed sequences so that large, intricate patterns could repeat across a full bolt. On top of it came velvet — first woven in Europe in the second half of the thirteenth century, refined to its height in the fifteenth and sixteenth: pile cut or left as uncut loops, voided to reveal a satin ground, often brocaded with gold-wrapped thread. Venice closely regulated all of it, treating cloth quality as a matter of state.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat prestige was never incidental. Sumptuary law governed who could wear silk, and painters used it to signal rank — which is why much of what we know about historic weaves has been reconstructed from portraiture. It was a material for interiors as much as dress: the V\u0026amp;A's Renaissance velvet holdings include a papal carpet and velvet-covered caskets alongside vestments. A cushion inherits that logic directly. Pile catches and releases light as you move past it, so the surface is never quite the same twice, and a drawloom repeat rewards being read at close range — on a chair, at arm's length — rather than at architectural scale.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alexander Mandagie Paris","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57221996806524,"sku":null,"price":440.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0902\/2560\/7036\/files\/AMP_Bantal7_WhiteFront.png?v=1785235984","url":"https:\/\/alexandermandagie.com\/products\/butterflies-pekalongan-batik-with-italian-silk-velvet","provider":"Alexander Mandagie Paris","version":"1.0","type":"link"}