NWT Cat Studio Alabama Pillow 20x20 Hand Embroidered PC

Alabama Hand-Embroidered Pillow by Catstudio The Heart of Dixie! This original design celebrates the State of Alabama. 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: Mobile Bay (on the coast) claims to be the birthplace of Mardi Gras in the U.S.A.. There is a Coon Dog cemetery in NW Alabama between Red Bay and Tuscumbia. Huntsville, AL, is known as the rocket capital of the world. Alabama workers built the first rocket for humans to travel to the moon. The world's largest cast iron statue, The Vulcan, is in Brimingham, AL. The statue is 56ft tall and weighs 120,000 pounds. In Magnolia Springs, Alabama, the community is served by mail boats on an all-water mail route. In 1955 when Mrs. Rosa Parks refused to stand on a bus in Montgomery, was arrested and appealed her conviction, she was the first to formally challenge the legality of segregation. This was a landmark action in the American Civil Rights movement. Mrs. Parks is known as the mother of the freedom movement. Alabama's 'Racking Horse'