Handwoven and Hand Embroidered Bird Pillow 6 Guatemala

Handwoven cotton pillow with hand embroidery by Rosa, one of the talented embroidery artists of Santiago Atitlan. The detailed embroidery is birds on branches with leaves and flowers in many colors. The pillow handwoven coral colored cotton cloth. Each bird is unique-so allow for some variations. The back and hand rolled piping are a burgundy colored linen cloth. The birds are many bright colors with a black outline. The branches and leaves various greens and browns with some burgundy. Hidden zipper with 90-10 feather/down pillow insert. Read more about the embroidery artists here.

Details:

• Hand embroidered
• one of a kind
• 100% cotton
• Size: 16" x 16”
• pillow insert 90/10 feather/down
• From Guatemala

Click here to see more hand embroidery by the Santiago Atitlan artisans

Care: dry cleaning recommended

Jose Sicay Embroidery

But José embroiders on an old Singer sewing machine. Nothing computerized about it. His talent reminds us of the saying “Great mastery is as if unskilled.” He seamlessly switches colors and in the blink of an eye a bird quickly comes to life so vividly you think it’s going to take flight.