The new Fall catalog for Pottery Barn has some really cute linen/cotton and linen/velvet throw pillows at decent prices. The patterns are very vibrant and modern.

Can anyone explain why a pillow would cost $265?

Jooly, it's the same reasons diamonds are so expensive. Because people will pay it.

I worked for a designer once who told me that a pillow wasn't a pillow unless it cost at least $300 dollars.

So where did the very top two come from? Did I miss the link?

BTW, while the top are named "Java" the applique work is of the style common to Gujurat, in Western India, which is where they were probably made.

I just picked up a couple of great bright, patterned pillows at Pier 1...for about $20/each. I have only been to Pier1 about 2 times in the last 8 years, but I realized that they have a great array of pillows...and they're organized by color...so easy :)

Jooly, the pillows cost as much as the pretentious idiot who buys it will pay. The same people who buy plastic bags for hundreds of dollars (think vuitton) so everyone knows they can. Egad.

It is great to have a choice to buy different pillows, but just after buying a pillow of an excellent quality and one of a poor quality will give you the answer to the question why there are expensive ones, too. You really have to experience it :-) or just take a picture of the cheap one after buying, use it for a year day after day, take another picture a year later and there it is..ask yourself, if it keeps its size, form, how did the fabric change? A $300 will last forever, even your grandchildren will use it :-) Don´t worry to enjoy feather or dawn filled pillows, excellent fabrics, quality trims, ..your room will be a heaven :-)