A dense garden of exotic birds: a fan-tailed peacock, crested parrots and smaller songbirds perch among palm fronds, spiky blossoms and berry-laden branches, stitched in layered appliqué with embroidered feather detail inside a narrow border.
- Size: 103 x 146 cm (41 x 57 in), width x height
- Colourway: White Ground
- Technique: Khayamiya — cotton appliqué, stitched entirely by hand
- One of a kind: cut and stitched by hand, not printed. The flat photographs show this exact piece; the room photographs are illustrations.
Its tall format suits a narrow wall, a hallway, or the space beside a doorway or a staircase.
Khayamiya is the appliqué of the Cairo tentmakers. Every shape is cut from cotton, its edges turned under and hand-stitched onto the backing with tiny, close stitches, so the picture is built up layer by layer rather than printed or painted.
Hanging: a rod pocket is sewn across the back of the top edge. Slide a curtain rod, a dowel or a slim batten through it and hang it from two brackets or nails.
See more one-of-a-kind pieces in our Egyptian appliqué wall hangings.
