The Celestial Kumo Drift — Japanese Ceremonial Silk Lumbar Pillow, Auspicious Cloud in White and Gold
Price from £208 to £297
A lumbar pillow cover in Japanese ceremonial silk, cut from a Nishijin fukuro obi (袋帯): the zuiun (瑞雲, auspicious cloud) drifting in gold and silver thread across champagne-white silk. Undyed linen reverse, envelope-pocket back, no metal against the silk; 50 × 31 cm (also 36 × 31 cm). For Scandinavian linen and pale interiors. Spot clean only. Unrepeatable, finished at the Renaras atelier, Amsterdam. Zuiun. The auspicious cloud. Long associated in Japanese decorative culture with great fortune — drifting cloud bands woven here across champagne-white silk in the visual vocabulary of classical Japanese picture scrolls. Across a champagne-white silk ground, drifting banks of zuiun cloud are rendered in textured gold and silver metallic thread. Between them, vermilion and azure wild flora appear in restrained vignettes — negative space and detail held in deliberate balance. The cool luminosity of the ground makes this piece exceptionally adaptable. The white gives the composition its space. The gold gives it its drift. A pillow for Scandinavian linen, the velvet arm of a chesterfield, Belgian cotton beds — quiet beauty for ordinary moments, gathered around a shared table. The face is the original silk, backed in undyed linen. Envelope pocket closure. No metal touches the visible silk. Product type Lumbar pillow cover Silk source Japanese ceremonial obi (pre-loved); origin Japan. Weave / technique Nishijin-ori 西陣織 (fukuro obi 袋帯) Motif Zuiun 瑞雲 (auspicious cloud — herald of good fortune) Construction Envelope-pocket closure; undyed linen reverse; no metal against the visible silk Dimensions 50 × 31 cm; also 36 × 31 cm Origin of silk Japan Assembled in Amsterdam, Netherlands Care Spot clean only Unrepeatable Yes SKU REN-PIL-020-L Renaras: Japanese ceremonial silk, reimagined for daily life. Each piece arrives with its own passport from the atelier — a small handmade record of the silk's first life and its transformation, signed and dated in Amsterdam. One silk. One story. One piece. Never repeated.
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Item The Celestial Kumo Drift — Japanese Ceremonial Silk Lumbar Pillow, Auspicious Cloud in White and Gold
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