Mohair Velvet Cushion Cover
Mohair Velvet Cushion Cover
The Leopard
Jim Thompson arrived in Bangkok in 1945, a former American intelligence officer with no plan beyond staying. What kept him was silk - the hand-woven cloth he found being made in the lanes behind the city's temples, traded quietly, unknown outside Thailand. He spent the next two decades reconstructing an industry that had almost disappeared: finding the weavers, building the looms, creating the markets. In 1967 he walked into the jungle in the Cameron Highlands of Malaysia and was never seen again.
The mills he left behind still run. These cushions come from them - the face in mohair velvet, whose pile deepens or pales as the light shifts across it, the back in pure wool.
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Product information
Square: 60cm x 60cm
Rectangle: 40cm x 60cm
Front: 100% mohair velvet
Back: 100% wool
About Studio Naenna
Studio Naenna is a small studio in Chiang Mai. Patricia Cheesman - Australian-born, a scholar of Tai weaving - founded it, and spent decades quietly insisting that the textiles of northern Thailand are worth keeping alive: a writer, a teacher, a collector of techniques that were close to disappearing. Her daughter Lamorna has run the studio since 2001; the work has not changed. The studio works with master weavers from the surrounding hills. The yarns are silk; the dyes are made by hand from the plants and minerals long used in the Lanna tradition - indigo, ebony, lac, mango bark.
Our current pieces - Planet, Cloud and Organ - are traditional designs, each hand-loomed in silk by Khun Wiroy, one of Studio Naenna's master weavers. Available as cushion covers and as throw rugs. The same patterns, the same hands.
Weeks of work go into each. The loom is set, the colour mixed, the pattern carried in the weaver's memory.
Exclusive to Australia.
