Eiffel Tower Hand-Embroidered Pillow by Catstudio

La belle tour eiffel! This original design celebrates the Eiffel Tower. A Parisian Icon!
This pillow is entirely HAND embroidered on light tea-colored 100% organic cotton. Amazingly it can take up to one week to embroider one pillow! It is also unique in nature since each artisan incorporates a certain flair and signature to his/her work. Accented with black velvet piping.

• Embroidered entirely by HAND: it takes 40+ hours to make one!
• Dimensions: 20" x 20"
• Materials: 100% Organic Cotton; Poly form included; Button closure.
• Hand-Embroidered and Made in India.
• Care Instructions: Dry clean only.
• Fun Facts: The French name for the Eiffel Tower is La Tour Eiffel, it also has the nickname 'La dame de fer' which means the iron lady (constructed of nearly 10,000 tons of iron). The Tower was designed to be wind resistant (it moves mere inchese in the wind). When construction of the tower began on the Champs de Mars, a group of 300 artists, sculptors, writers and architects sent a petition to the commissioner of the Paris Exposition, pleading him to halt construction of the "ridiculous tower" that would dominate Paris like a "gigantic black smokestack." There are 5 billion lights on the Eiffel Tower. One of the tower's elevators travels a total distance of 64,001 miles a year. The French military used the tower to communicate wirelessly with ships in the Atlantic Ocean and intercept enemy messages during World War I. The 120 antennas still on the tower broadcast both radio and television signals through Paris and beyond. Tower Architect Gustav Eiffel had a private room built for him at the top of the tower (it is still in existence). From 1925 to 1935 the Eiffel Tower was used as a commercial billboard by CITROEN who equipped the tower with illuminated letters spelling their company name.