Pink Cirebon Batik with French Silk Velvet

This cushion features authentic Cirebon batik from a northern coastal town in West Java, Indonesia, that reflects the region’s rich heritage and intricate motifs. The back is crafted from luxurious French silk velvet, renowned for its softness, elegant sheen, and enduring quality, adding a touch of European refinement to the piece. This unique cushion beautifully unites Indonesian craftsmanship and culture with the timeless sophistication of French textiles, making it a striking accent for any interior.

Each cushion is made to order, allowing time for careful craftsmanship and attention to detail. Your beautiful piece will be ready within 15 working days from the date of order. It is an excellent present for you and your loved ones. We invite you to place your order now.
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Dimensions: 45 cm x 45 cm. High-quality insert included. Materials used for the front of the cushion: Hand-drawn Batik fabric made from 100% cotton. Materials used for the back of the cushion: French silk velvet. All of our cushions are made in Paris, France. Specialised dry clean only. SKU: CBF003

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Cirebon, a former sultanate on the north coast of West Java, has always been a meeting place. Sundanese, Javanese, Chinese, Arab, and European currents converged in its harbour, and its art absorbed them all. Nowhere is this clearer than in its batik. The city's signature motif, megamendung — the "great cloud" — renders billowing cloudbanks in serene, stepped gradations of colour, a form whose ancestry reaches back to the cloud imagery of Chinese art and to the patronage of the Cirebon courts. Alongside it appear rock-and-garden motifs evoking the palace water-garden of Sunyaragi, and the sea creatures of a fishing port — among them the shrimp that serves as the city's own emblem.

Much of this work is centred on the village of Trusmi, where families have drawn batik for generations, mastering the layered waxing and dyeing that give the cloud motif its luminous depth. Cirebon batik is, at heart, a record of cultures learning to live within one frame. It is precisely that quality — distinct traditions resolved into a single harmonious surface — that we hope to honour when such a cloth becomes a cushion.

Cirebon's traditions remember a marriage that bound two worlds together. Sunan Gunung Jati, the revered founder of the city's Islamic line, is said to have wed Ong Tien, a princess who came from China. With her arrived artisans, porcelain, and the cloud-and-rock imagery of the Chinese aesthetic — an inheritance that local tradition links to the very motifs for which Cirebon batik is now famous.

The story is told less as a tale of conquest than of welcome: a union in which a foreign bride was received with honour, and her artistry woven permanently into the fabric of her new home. In the same lineage is remembered Rara Santang, a princess of the inland kingdom of Pajajaran whose journey and marriage carried the founding family across faith and distance. Together, these accounts frame Cirebon's identity as something born of love that reached across borders — and they explain, in the region's own voice, why its cloth speaks so many languages at once.