Portuguese textile making and everyday care
The covers are made in Portugal, a country with a long tradition of manufacturing these kinds of pieces. That matters practically rather than romantically: mills with generations of experience in cotton weaving hold more consistent tension across a panel, and even tension is precisely what an embossed stripe needs in order to stay straight. Uneven cloth shows up immediately in a linear design, which is why striped cotton covers are a fair test of where a textile was actually made.
Look after them simply. Hoover along the direction of the ribs rather than across them, so dust lifts out of the channels instead of being pushed further in. Cotton relaxes with use, and the cushion covers set will soften over the first months without losing the raised structure. Because the palette is undecorated, the pair sits easily beneath more expressive pieces such as a check, a bouclé or a coloured jacquard, and gives a Japandi living room its quiet base layer.