Applique Cutwork Runner Lily White with Mirrors

White on white with light caught in mirrors: this runner is made using the triple technique of applique, cutwork, and embroidery on pure cotton. Fabric is cut, overlaid, and embroidered with invisible stitches, then small mirrors are set into the surface by hand, the same mirror-work tradition found in Kutch, Gujarat, where shisha embroidery has been practiced for centuries. On a white ground, the mirrors are the punctuation.

There is a particular kind of quiet that a white table runner creates, it asks everything else on the table to speak. This one adds a third term: the mirrors. Hand-set across the cotton surface using the applique cutwork and shisha embroidery techniques, they catch light at unexpected moments. Morning sun through a dining room window. The flicker of a candle. The beam of a phone camera at a dinner that was worth photographing.

The cutwork geometry is visible only on close inspection, the seams are invisible, the shapes simply appear. It is a runner for the host who wants the table to feel intention without wanting the table to feel decorated. The white recedes. The mirrors stay.

Applique Cutwork · Mirror Work · Hand Embroidery · Pure Cotton

Care Instructions

• Machine wash cold, gentle cycle.
• Do not bleach. Line dry or tumble dry low.
• Iron on medium while slightly damp.
• Wash separately first two washes.