Red velvet cushion for the ring (NJ 100)

Model cushion, part of a model oomiak, commissioned by Isobel Wylie Hutchison: Inuit, North America, South Greenland, Nanortalik, c. 1927

Model cushion, part of a model oomiak, commissioned by Isobel Wylie Hutchison: Inuit, North America, South Greenland, Nanortalik, c. 1927

Model cushion, part of a model oomiak, commissioned by Isobel Wylie Hutchison: Inuit, North America, South Greenland, Nanortalik, c. 1927

Model cushion, part of a model oomiak, commissioned by Isobel Wylie Hutchison: Inuit, North America, South Greenland, Nanortalik, c. 1927

Matashi (cushion cover) of buff leather, circular and decorated with coloured leathers and fringed: West Africa, Nigeria, Katsina State, Hausa people

Pad for red linen cushion-cover embroidered with white silk? and cotton threads showing 'Festival of Britain 1951', designed by Robert Stewart: Scottish, by Kathleen Whyte

Coloured woollen material cushion embroidered with coloured woollen threads in satin and stem stitch and showing reindeer and trees on three bands: Norwegian, c. 1935

Cotton cushion cover printed in colours with flowers, foliage and grass: Scottish, Alexandria, United Turkey Red Company, late 19th century

Hippasteria phrygiana (Parelius, 1768), cushion star, dried specimen, 5-6 miles west of May Island, Firth of Forth

Chair cushion with gold thread embroidery on scarlet woollen upholstery, made in London for the 3rd Duke of Hamilton between 1682 and 1695, possibly by Jean Paudevin, later part of the furnishings of Queen Mary’s rooms at the Palace of Holyroodhouse

Part of a collection of keepsakes given to Miss Gwendoline Rogers by a Canadian soldier named ‘Larter’, of the 111th South Waterloo Overseas Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, First World War, embroidered cushion cover featuring ‘Canada’ text covered with maple leaves, given post-war by Larter’s mother

Long seat cushion, from a fireplace with corner settle of white painted wood, from Dunglass Castle, Dunbartonshire, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Glasgow, 1900, made by Lyndsay Taylor of Glasgow, 1988

Short seat cushion, from a fireplace with corner settle of white painted wood, from Dunglass Castle, Dunbartonshire, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Glasgow, 1900, made by Lyndsay Taylor of Glasgow, 1988

Large cushion, from a fireplace with corner settle of white painted wood, from Dunglass Castle, Dunbartonshire, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Glasgow, 1900, made by Lyndsay Taylor of Glasgow, 1988

Small cushion, from a fireplace with corner settle of white painted wood, from Dunglass Castle, Dunbartonshire, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Glasgow, 1900, made by Lyndsay Taylor of Glasgow, 1988