Summer Bloom Cushion Cover

Sanganer warms up early. By the time the rest of Rajasthan is thinking about summer, the printing yards on the edge of town are already laying lengths of cotton out to dry in the sun, the orange grounds glowing against the pale ground of the courtyard.
This is where Summer Bloom was found. The pattern is a jaal, a continuous trailing vine that covers the whole cloth without a gap, and it is built in the round the way Sanganer has always built them. The vine comes first, an olive and brown framework winding across the orange ground. Then the flowers settle into it, soft cornflower blue blooms opening five and six petals at a time, with smaller buds and the occasional deep maroon flower tucked in where the vine turns. Nothing is symmetrical and nothing repeats too neatly, which is exactly what gives a hand-printed jaal its life.
Each colour is a separate block, carved by hand and printed in sequence, one pass laid carefully over the last. The orange ground, the olive vine, the blue flower, the maroon bud, each one waits for the one before it to dry. A pattern this dense is among the most demanding a printer can take on, because every block has to register against the one beneath it across the entire length of cloth, and there is nowhere for a slip to hide.
The reverse carries a fine blue stripe, hand-printed on the same cotton, and the whole cover is finished with a slim blue and white striped piping that frames the bloom like a border around a garden bed.
The reverse is a block-printed blue stripe on the same cotton, and the whole cover is finished with a slim piping in the same stripe, framing the bloom like a border around a garden bed.
The cushion that brings a Sanganer summer indoors and keeps it there all year.

Every Summer Bloom cover is printed by hand, so no two are quite the same. The density of the jaal means small variations appear right across the cloth. You may find a flower where the blue sits a fraction outside its outline, a stretch of vine where the olive caught more deeply, or a point where two blocks meet and overlap a little. The orange 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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