This original design celebrates the Block Island
Let's take the ferry to Block Island!
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 blue & white ticked piping.
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20" x 20"
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100% Organic cotton
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Poly form included
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Button closure
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Dry clean only
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Hand Embroidered and Made in India
Dry clean only.
Fun Facts
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Quahogs (large clams) are only found and eaten in Rhode Island.
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Florentine navigator Giovanni da Verrazano (1524) was the first European to explore Rhode Island and compared Block Island to the the Greek isle of Rhodes - the state became Rhode Island.
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Rodman's Hollow is a 230-acre Glacial Basin along the Atlantic Flyway - flocks of migrating birds can be seen here.
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Mentioned in the Billy Joel song "Downeaster Alexa" Race Week (sailing) is a major attraction (takes place every even year).
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The Nature Conservancy calls Block Island "One of the 12 Last Great Places in the Western Hemisphere."
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More than 1/3 of Block Island is conserved land. * There are more than 350 freshwater ponds on the island (the natural springs keep these full).