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My very best wishes to everyone for the New Year to all SOTD regulars, occasional posters and newcomers alike :party: .

The SOTD 2021 thread is now open and ready for business:

Scarves - Scarf of the Day 2021 - Which Hermès scarf are you wearing today?

continued from here THEME WEEKS for 2021 from TEAM SCARF MISTRESS Just for fun, each Sunday begins a new Theme Week. This year, we have some real treats in store! We have a full complement of scarf mistresses and GSMs for 2021 and I want to give a quick shout out and thank you to my fellow...
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The new theme commences tomorrow (3 Jan - whenever your time zone gets there) but there's no reason why you can't post earlier if you want.
 
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Cookiefiend said:
Good Morning Scarflandia!

This week’s theme is Sherlock Scarves.

Well my fellow scarf fiends - we’re doing a bit of a switcheroo on you! We’re really going to ask you to put on your Deerstalker hats, and employ all your considerable sleuthing skills. Not to find out what Santa’s hidden under the tree, but to solve some H Mysteries. :smartass:

Sherlock Holmes first appeared in print in 1887, A Study in Scarlet. Sherlock Holmes was known for his proficiency with observation, deduction, forensic skills and logical reasoning that borders on the fantastic.

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I don’t think ole Sherlock has a thing on us Scarfies! I have never seen such a dedicated group - we know SO MUCH about these beauties… and how did we find out so much about them? Why we’ve sleuthed through the internet, we tracked down art and history books, H’s own libraries! We deduced, we used our intuitive and inquisitive minds, to learn all we could.
I’m not sure how much logic was involved - it is H after all! :lol:

I’m going to start the week with Kachinas.
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A Kachina is a spirit being in the religious beliefs of many Native American cultures, Kachinas are spirits or personifications of things in the real world. The central theme of kachina beliefs and practices as explained by Wright (2008) is "the presence of life in all objects that fill the universe. Everything has an essence or a life force, and humans must interact with these or fail to survive." The Kachinas are supernatural beings who visit the villages to help with everyday activities and act as a link between gods and mortals. There are different types of Kachinas - Chief Kachinas (elders), Ogres (disciplinary), Warriors or Guards (enforcers), Runners (race the men) , Clowns (humor), Female, and Animal.

I don’t know about you - but I find this fascinating.
The outer circle has 16 Kachinas, the inner has 8. I’ve been researching off and on for a couple of years, trying to figure out what they all are. I have found what I *think* are some of them, and a lovely woman on Instagram (@cloudwei.c) has been working on it too. She had some that I did not and I’ve incorporated her information. I hope she doesn’t mind!

I’m going to start with the inner circle - starting with Number 1 and going around the circle clockwise.
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I hope we can all be like Sherlock and find even more information on this scarf. I don’t know what all of the Kachinas are, but would like to. I’ll be adding the next 16, including the ones I don’t know, starting tomorrow. Any new information gleaned using time tested Sherlock, I mean Scarfie methods will be added to my Google documents and posted at the end of the week.
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And I am so curious about so many other scarves as well… What are the all the lucky tokens that are included in Turandot? What does the background of Mythiques Phoenix mean?

Tell us something interesting about a scarf you have or play mystery scarves: show us a close-up & we’ll guess the scarf - we’re going to be all over the place this week!

It’s Elementary, my dear Watsons!
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Brava! Wonderful intro... and, you did it! I know that you’ve been exploring the meaning of the different Kachina dolls on the scarf for a while... I am going to save your information... This is such a perfect offering for the week! And, I see that we are twins on this CW as this is one of the latest to enter my collection... I will never tire of Kachinas... One of my favorite designs of all time
 
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Naessi said:
I have missed out on a few weeks of SOTD because of being busy with work and struggling to photograph scarves in daylight this time of the year (living in the dark north...). So I apologise for being a bit off topic for this week.

Here are my contributions for Spice Route - Destination Europe:

Marine et Cavalerie. In my cw the flag looks like the Dutch flag and the cavalry are wearing red, white and blue colours.
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Napoleon x 2. I love it so much I got it in two cws (that look very similar...) :angel:
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Such stunning classics! I just love this sumptuous CW of MeC
 
#25,085
Naessi said:
My contribution for last week's theme Wearing Two Hats is of course Jan Bajtlik

An attempt at a Kluska look-a-like (dressing up one of the dogs in Animapolis)
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Cosmographia Universalis. This one you have seen many times before, but I can't help but post it again. I just love the colours!
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Exposition Universelle. The latest addition of JB scarves in my wardrobe. With Kluska wearing an Animapolis scarf in one of the corners.
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Aaah! All gorgeous! But, I am absolutely smitten by your fashionable pooch!
 
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Redbirdhermes said:
What a great introduction to Sherlock Week, @Cookiefiend! I adore your Kachinas and all of the information about the dancers. I have a couple of scarves that I plan to research for you all this week.

In the meantime, today was a busy day, so I just wore my Kachinas that I had on yesterday. A fortuitous choice given Cookie's intro this morning.

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Happy to be your twin on this spectacular CW... Looks fab on you and goes with everything! I especially love the creamy corners
 
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Cookiefiend said:
Today, I’m starting on the outer circle of Kachinas, beginning with the Kachina just over the Hermès Paris, moving clockwise. View attachment 4923574View attachment 4923575View attachment 4923576View attachment 4923577View attachment 4923578
If this is the Snow Maiden above - or Nuvak’chin Mana - she is the Kachina who appears to pray for the return of cold weather, so the moisture in the earth gets replenished during the winter to be reborn in the new year.
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Now my fine detectives - what scarf am I wearing today? :thinking:
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This is such formidable work, Cookie! Thank you so much for sharing your findings with us!
 
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Redbirdhermes said:
My scarf is Reves D'espace, or Dreams of Space, designed by Michel Duchene, and issued in 1993. This scarf is packed with symbols of the history of the human fascination with space and flight. Many thanks to @Living.la.vida.fifi for telling me that a pilot needed this scarf. She is so right.

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I will be spending a few days with this scarf, beginning today with the astrolabes pictured in the four corners of the scarf.

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The astrolabe is an instrument used to make astronomical measurements, typically of the altitudes of celestial bodies, and was used in navigation for calculating latitude before the development of the sextant. In other words, this useful device can give you the time, date, your location and much more. It was developed during the height of the Roman Empire and remained popular through the 18th century when it was replaced by a combination of accurate clocks and the sextant. It was one of the devices that drove the development of astronomy, by getting more precise astrological predictions. It would have been among the navigational tools used by Christopher Columbus when exploring the New World. Many of the ancient astrolabes recovered today are from shipwrecks of Spanish and Portuguese explorers.

The astrolabe was also widely used in the medieval Islamic world. Muslim astronomers introduced angular scales to the design and circles indicating azimuth on the horizon. It was widely used in the Muslim world as an aid to navigation and as a way of finding the direction of Mecca.

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The medieval astrolabe pictured above was made by French instrument maker Jean Fusoris (c. 1365-1436), who also made portable sundials and other popular instruments in his shop in Paris.

Many years ago I purchased a small working astrolabe necklace at a local Renaissance festival. I misplaced the instruction book years ago, but I’m hoping to rediscover the computations that mine can make.

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As a symbol of the importance of these navigational instruments in reaching the stars, the original crew of Apollo 13 was pictured with a sextant and an astrolabe.

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Wearing red, blue and green again today, because, yes, I adore these colors. Thank you all for the sweet comments.

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What a beautiful post! This scarf was made for you! And, I absolutely love these colors on you! What a wonderful choice to wear the navy top and red coat with this scarf... and the amazing pendant! Perfection
 
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Iflola said:
SOTD, my SA out of FL is amazing... I haven’t had time to investigate all this has to offer. The designs have always been multilayered with references but the recent issues are so very complex, one could write an entire dissertation on a single scarf.
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This is probably my favorite CW of this design... Fabulous!
 
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Redbirdhermes said:
Today we will be looking at some of the aircraft on Reves D'espace. Indeed, it was all the airplanes flying around the scarf that initially caught my eye. There are folks who would be able to immediately identify all of these aircraft, but I am not one of those people. Nevertheless, I was able to identify a few of the planes. Feel free to add to the list if you recognize others.

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The glider at the very top of the scarf is a Lilienthal hang glider (c. 1896). Otto Lilienthal was one of the first people to fly successfully with winged flying machines. During the 1890s people flocked to see his short flights.

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Looking inside the red and green ring we see a large twinjet aircraft located at the 1 o'clock position. This is the Airbus A330 which was produced by Airbus, an aircraft company located in Toulouse, France. The first flight of this plane was November 2, 1992, so it would represent the latest French commercial plane in this 1993 Hermes scarf.

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Moving around the ring at the 4 o'clock position, we see a long triangle shaped plane. This is the Concorde, a British-French supersonic passenger airliner that operated from 1969 until 2003. I remember seeing my first Concorde parked at Paris Orly Airport when I was a college student studying abroad. Unfortunately, I never got to ride in this plane.

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Below the Concorde at the 5 o'clock position is the Space Shuttle. This was a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft operated from 1981 to 2011 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration as part of the Space Shuttle program.

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In preparation for my FAA pilot exams I used video training courses from King Schools. At the end of each taped lesson, the instructor would admonish the student pilot to "Stay out of the trees!". My scarf of the day contains these trees, fortunately with no planes hanging in them! Can you tell me where these trees are located??

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Wonderful! Such a special design
 
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