Sage Blossom Cushion Cover

There is a particular kind of flower that has been blooming in Sanganer for three hundred years and has never once been picked.
It is the Mughal blossom, the full open bloom that came north with the courts of Agra and Delhi and settled into the printing tradition of Rajasthan. You can see it here in the large flowers, petals packed tight at the centre and opening outward in rows, the way a peony or a marigold rose opens in late spring. Around them the vine trails in teal and indigo, carrying smaller buds, narrow leaves and the curved paisley forms that have travelled across Indian textiles for as long as anyone has been printing them.
What makes this one quieter than most is the ground. Instead of the usual cream or the bold colour, Sage Blossom sits on a soft, dusty green, a colour mixed and printed onto the cotton before any flower appears. Against it the pinks read as gentle rather than loud, and the whole pattern feels like a garden seen early in the day, before the heat, when the colours are still soft.
Every flower is a separate block. The pink of the petals, the teal of the outline, the indigo of the deeper shadows, the white that lifts the bloom away from the ground, each one carved by hand and printed in sequence across the cloth. A floral of this scale is unforgiving, because the large blooms leave nowhere to hide a block that lands a fraction out of place. It takes a printer who has done it many times before to keep the whole surface in register.
The reverse is a block-printed pink stripe on the same cotton, and the cover is finished with a slim piping in the same stripe, framing the green like the edge of a flowerbed.
The cushion that brings a Mughal garden into the room and asks nothing of it but to be looked at.

Every Sage Blossom cover is printed by hand, so no two are quite the same. The large scale of the blooms means any variation shows clearly, which is part of the pleasure of a hand-printed floral. You may find a flower where the pink sits a little outside its teal outline, a leaf where the colour caught more deeply, or a point where two blocks meet and overlap. The sage ground may read slightly warmer or cooler from one cover to the next. The striped piping is block-printed and stitched by hand, so the run of the stripe will shift gently around the edge. These are the marks of a pattern made entirely by hand in Sanganer, and they are part of what makes your cushion yours.

• Wipe down with a damp cloth for everyday freshness
• Machine-wash on a gentle cycle in cool water
• Wash separately the first time, colours may release slightly
• Air-dry away from direct sunlight
• Steam or iron on a low heat if needed
• Zip up before washing to protect the fabric

UK delivery

• Standard delivery — £5.95, free over £60. Royal Mail tracked, 3–5 working days.
• Express delivery — £7.95. Royal Mail tracked, 1–2 working days.
• Order before 2pm Monday–Friday for same-day dispatch. Orders placed after 2pm, or over the weekend, dispatch the next working day.

International delivery

We ship worldwide. Rates and timeframes calculated at checkout based on your destination. Customs duties and import taxes are not included and are the customer's responsibility.

Returns

You have 14 days from receiving your order to return it. Items must be unused, in their original condition and packaging.

For change-of-mind returns, we email you a Royal Mail returns link — no printer needed, no postage to pay upfront. The cost of return postage is deducted from your refund.

For faulty, damaged or incorrect items, we cover return postage in full and refund your original delivery charge. Sale items are final.

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Every piece in our collection is sourced directly from artisan workshops we know by name. We pay fairly, we visit often, and we believe the people who make a thing should be valued as much as the thing itself. We use natural dyes wherever possible, plastic-free packaging in every order, and we donate a share of every sale back into the craft communities we work with.

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