Chinese Forbidden City Pillow

Long, shaggy cushion in tomato red with a texture like seaweed.

This woven silk pillow in the Forbidden City style is from China, and is contemporary. Silk is a fine fiber produced by silkworms, and China has woven it for thousands of years into cloth, pillows, robes and hangings. Rectangular pillow in rich scarlet covered in crinkled, curling ruffled pile. The edges are neat and fully filled, and the surface is dense and deeply textured all the way across. It is 23.5 inches wide and 11.8 long.

Soft, loud and unashamed of the attention.