Jbizzy - didn’t have time to fully explore your helpful links, so please forgive if is this is already covered: When I desperately searched for mine, based on lovely posts and photos on tPF, I seem to remember something about this scarf in a red CW as well, but can’t recall if it ever came into production or if someone actually had seen or even better bought one - would have been great to see a picture
Great Question! Maybe someone has a better answer—My best answer right now is two-fold:
A. I’ve seen in the tpf comments that a scarfie recalled her SA said the red one was never made, or didn’t work out well. Additional comments indicated the process of mud silks isn’t foolproof and not every material produced would necessarily have met Hermes standards.
B. The process of mud silk appears on videos to make one side reddish and the other dark. With that in mind, and the long history of mud silks, I could see why that might have been an Hermes goal, or might simply have been a by-product. In certain light, my beloved CdL shows quite reddish brown.
ON THE OTHER HAND: Oh, yes, if someone has one of those red CdLs, puh-leez step up and share a photo and a story.
I have another theory that explores the rumor among tpf members as it may relate to the use of tea as part of the production process, but I’ll leave that for more detail in a day or two as it requires more time and a geographic shift, I think.