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Enrich your environment with the handmade elegance of this cotton cushion cover featuring suzani hand-embroidery created using the bosma technique. Artisan Mavjuda Nabieva’s remarkable design boasts Tajikistan's traditional motifs in grey, yellow, ivory and black hues, adding cultural significance and infusing your home with irresistible charm. This fabulous accessory features a hidden zippered closure for easy cushion insertion (not included).

Flowers and traditional motifs enrich the serene aura of this stone pendant necklace by Karen Sardaryan. Inspired by Armenia's traditional amulets, the artisan creates this gorgeous piece whose engravings charmingly showcase the region's customs and devotion, making the accessory perfect for those souls who live with faith and courageous pride. The necklace is also accented with a comfortable waxed cotton cord.

A history of arts and strong faith has ornamented the Armenian landscapes with glorious temples and cathedrals that show the artistry of its people. As part of this culture, Miqayel Nalbandyan hand-carves a traditional khachkar or stela sculpture from basalt stone, whose grey hue adds a mystic vibe to the cross and floral motifs that ornament this altar to devotion.

Mother nature begins with the tree of life in this World Peace Project painting by India's Bharti Dayal. As Mother Nature sits cross-legged, resembling a heart, she extends her limbs upwards, branching out into a full-grown tree with pink leaves and lotus flower motifs.

The artist explains that the unification of the female form and the tree suggests that femininity is in its essence peaceful. Just as Hinduism advocates the continuous growth of oneself and the pursuit of inner peace, 'Feminine Tree' depicts the figurative source of peace as the self, independent of the surrounding world.

The artist uses natural vegetable colors to depict this symbolic scene of Mother Nature existing within an empty gray domain, sprouting with vibrant pink, directing one's attention to the peaceful heights reached in the feminine universe.

Dayal carefully arranges her composition to tell the story of the tree of life, employing the classic Madhubani painting style. "Madhubani paintings are in fact a simplistic manifestation of the philosophical heights achieved by Indian civilization for the universal power of love, longing and peace -- the quest of all beings," Dayal says.

Pomegranate, floral and leaf designs grace the front of this captivating cotton cushion cover from Tajik artisan Mavjuda Nabieva. This elegant accessory boasts splendid suzani hand-embroidery crafted using the classic bosma technique, with a hidden zippered closure that allows for easy cushion insertion (not included). Its vivid motifs intertwine in a dynamic display of textures in rich grey, blue, yellow and white hues.