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

[LKBNOLA]

That Ors Bleus is absolutely glowing!

But it's the Minoan dolphins which caught my eye. They take centrestage on Les Secrets de Minos.
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And these on Animapolis look like kissing cousins!
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A good observation and kind of "meta'-- inspiration from other scarf designs and their inspiration...(if that is the source!)

 

[Langsam]

Sometimes I go on a scarf hunt solely because of those connections. After @Langsam drew a connection between Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and L'ivresse de l'infini, I could not unsee the fairy cake and had to get one. I like Les Berlines because, in the blue cw, it reminded me of the police box in Dr Who.

I wasn't trying to enable you, but I'm not sorry So glad you are pleased with your L'Ivresse.

 

[Croisette7]

Paperoles definitely fits! Congrats on your won for a NIB an you the only bidder!



Deliously elegant grey Croisette!



You look beautifully comfortable tlamdang!

Thank you, bunnycat!

Thank you-- I am happy to have added those two Pierre Marie designs (Tresors and Laboratoire) this year @Croisette7.

Nomad!!!

Thank you for your kind words @Agrume!

This cloisonne effect is truly beautiful @Redbirdhermes! And this is a beautiful red on you...Congratulations and I totally approve of your accounting logic!

Thank you kindly, bunnycat!

Ah, thank you! We like our little hats and fascinators here in this town! I missed the St Catherine's Day Hat Parade but there is always a tea or luncheon to wear them to...

This is just beautiful and the cw absolutely suits the subject so well. Love the reindeer pin, too! Very nice touch @Croisette7! Made me smile ...

Another chic ensemble @tlamdang08!

This purple/lavender looks beautiful on you @Nomad!



I really can't tell yet and mostly I left behind truly seasonal scarfs in color and design and I wanted to leave room for some 2022 Spring purchases, too! I collect by artist (mostly) and I brought the ones I am working on currently.

Most of the scarfs I accumulated between 2003 and 2017 when my H addiction began gathering steam came to me in just this way @bruxelles70. Some favorites for sure!

Thank you @Barbette! You were one of the inspirations (along with Croisette and Karenska) that bumped Paperoles up several places on my wish list! You have that lovely one with the dark hem (is it cw07?).

Thank you so much!

 

[xincinsin]

I wasn't trying to enable you, but I'm not sorry So glad you are pleased with your L'Ivresse.

I was glad to be enabled! I mention this acquisition only because it was just made. The scarf itself is still somewhere in the eddies of international reshipping. I finally found one that wasn't outrageously priced. Now hoping that the H sale will return in 2022; I miss getting half-price grails

 

[Tasha1]

my SOTD Fleurs d‘Hiver

gray))))

 

[Karenska]

Rubans de Cheval is full of patterns. SOTD:

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This is so gorgeous and so perfect with your sweater, Susie Augusta!

 

[Karenska]

SOTD: The rhythm, provided by the guitar players, and the lovely jaquard pattern of La Comédie Italienne.

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Oh, a favorite design, Susie Augusta, in a special color way. Beautifully tied, too. We are sisters; here’s mine.

 

[Karenska]

Thank you so much for hosting the past weeks, @xincinsin! I marvel at at the lovely scarves you introduced me to!

What a great intro, @Cookiefiend! Very much looking forward to how this week will develop.

Here is my first contribution: Au Coin du Feu. Knitting definitively is a recurring pattern. I love the christmassy interpretation of Ex Libris.

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What an interesting scarf and yes, very Christmasy! I love the wintry colors. And I recognize those patterns. A scarf, but it’s not an ‘H’, it’s a ‘K’ .

 

[Karenska]

Here is my contribution this morning-- the slightly dizzying graphics of Les Ailes de la Soie--shown tied as I am wearing it (beautiful glass scarf ring by our own @bunnycat!) and also draped on the mannequin to show the scarf's repetitive energy...
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This is such an amazing design and I love the cw. Perfect with gray, sage green, or dusty olive.

 

[CanuckBagLover]

Thank you, @Living.la.vida.fifi , for your wonderful introduction to this week’s theme of Scarf Imitates Art. And, thank you, @Cookiefiend , for hosting last week’s theme of repeated design elements.

This past year I decided that I needed more red scarves in my collection, and made a concerted effort to add them. I found the shades of red in recent seasons were not to my liking, so I began looking at vintage designs. I tagged this bright red scarf with the blue ducks (no name, TRR had it listed simply as “Hermes silk scarf”), and watched for weeks as the price dropped and dropped. Finally I threw it into my cart (after all, with all the discounts, according to H Math it was practically free) and it was mine.

Scarf in hand, I pulled out my Carrés d’art IV and identified it as La Mare aux Canards, 1981, by Daphné Duchesne.

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Turning to @marietouchet in the Authentication thread. "Mare aux canards is an all time favorite of mine. It is supposed to look like cloisonne. Think Chinese vase ware. The ducks definitely look Chinese cloisonne - you can see the cloisons - where the metal would stick up to hold each color of enamel. The background has a basse taille look - where they engraved the bottom of the piece and would have used a transparent enamel - think Fabergé. And in certain colorways the background recedes - kinda 3D like."

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My Scarf of the Day is La Mare aux Canards. With its repeated elements of cloisonné ducks, it is my crossover scarf this Sunday.

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This is also a sleeper favorite of mine too. I have this scarf in blue. The red is lovely on you and so festive. I had no idea the design was inspired by cloisonee. Thanks for this information!

 

[Redbirdhermes]

SOTD is Acinonyx Jubatus, based on this Robert Dallet painting.

 

[HScarfCollector]

Thank you, @Living.la.vida.fifi , for your wonderful introduction to this week’s theme of Scarf Imitates Art. And, thank you, @Cookiefiend , for hosting last week’s theme of repeated design elements.

This past year I decided that I needed more red scarves in my collection, and made a concerted effort to add them. I found the shades of red in recent seasons were not to my liking, so I began looking at vintage designs. I tagged this bright red scarf with the blue ducks (no name, TRR had it listed simply as “Hermes silk scarf”), and watched for weeks as the price dropped and dropped. Finally I threw it into my cart (after all, with all the discounts, according to H Math it was practically free) and it was mine.

Scarf in hand, I pulled out my Carrés d’art IV and identified it as La Mare aux Canards, 1981, by Daphné Duchesne.

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Turning to @marietouchet in the Authentication thread. "Mare aux canards is an all time favorite of mine. It is supposed to look like cloisonne. Think Chinese vase ware. The ducks definitely look Chinese cloisonne - you can see the cloisons - where the metal would stick up to hold each color of enamel. The background has a basse taille look - where they engraved the bottom of the piece and would have used a transparent enamel - think Fabergé. And in certain colorways the background recedes - kinda 3D like."

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My Scarf of the Day is La Mare aux Canards. With its repeated elements of cloisonné ducks, it is my crossover scarf this Sunday.

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Twins! One of my favorite designs

 

[bruxelles70]

Carré Kantha. After the traditional Indian Kantha embroidery textile art---very interesting history of Kantha, similar in many ways to quilting art forms, telling stories, using recycled scraps of fabric, simplicity of materials creating gorgeous works!

Kantha refers to the simple running stitch used well as the cloth as a whole. Notice the "H" motif worked in...Hermès humor at work!

Love the two sweet Bengal tigers!


There is also some background "stitching" that almost appears to be a jacquard pattern--it is flat and printed, but very 3-D.

 

[bruxelles70]

Napoleon. Numerous tableaux in this scarf taken from artworks.
This is one, for example, is after Jean-Louis David's "Napoleon Crossing the Alps"

 

[Karenska]

•12 Dec 2021: Scarf Imitates Art Redux: Another look at this inspiration

Happy Sunday, my dear scarfie friends! I am delighted at the opportunity to host what is probably my favorite week on SOTD. Last year we learned a lot and had tons of fun during our “Scarf Imitates Art” week. At its conclusion we found that there was still left a lot of material to be covered. So, it was only fitting to bring back the theme this year in order to to expand on it.

As Hermès scarves aficionados and collectors we well know that Hermès scarves are works of art with designs that are beautifully and masterfully fashioned by artists, illustrators and artisans the world over. Artists like Jan Bajtlik and the Anamorphée duo are often inspired by specific artistic styles and genres. Often the art, crafts and traditions of a people and culture are represented, as is the case with the South African Ardmore Artists. Many times, there is something about the style, colors and subject matter of a design that evokes a particular art historical period, artistic style or cultural tradition, whether it was intended or not by the Hermès designer. This week we will explore all of these possibilities.

I have chosen to kick off the week with four scarves that I bought this year, beginning with Grand Théâtre Nouveau created by Gianpaolo Pagni.

Pagni took pages of antique Épinal illustrations and reimagined them juxtaposed with the kinetic, geometric patterns that he features in his rubber stamp graphics and picture books. According to Hermès, “The Épinal imagery was founded in Vosges, France in 1796. For two centuries, this printing house distributed colored images throughout Europe, illustrating countless subjects: exotic fauna and flora, common trades, historical events, fables and legends, riddles, etc. Gianpaolo Pagni had the privilege of accessing the archives of this house.” Following the scarf are images from the Epinal catalog and an 1890s Pellerin toy paper theater scenery entitled Grand Théâtre Nouveau.

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Modernisme Tropical, designed by Brazilian artist Filipe Jardim, is a dynamic and complex abstract composition. Jardim interprets a lush tropical landscape in his unique pictorial style. To me, the composition reminds me of paintings from the school of Abstract Expressionism. It also has a decidedly mid-century classic vibe. I am happy to have recently found two CWs of this design. Below are pics of the scarves followed by images of the work of abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock, surrealist/abstract Cuban artist Wilfredo Lam and a mid-century modern interior.

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The title of Zoé Pauwell’s Ors Bleus d’Afrique literally means “the blue gold of Africa” which refers to the valuable indigo dye used in African textiles, especially by the Yoruba people of West Africa. The carré design is inspired by the patterns of these batiks. Below are pics of the Hermès scarf and of Yoruba indigo Adire cloth.

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My last scarf today is one of the most popular historically-themed designs created by Hermès: Aline Honoré’s Le Voyage de Pytheas. The illustration is inspired by the expeditions of ancient Greek explorer Pytheas. The Hermès catalog states, “In the sixth century BC, in the narrow inlet known as Lacydon, the Phoenicians founded their first colony, Massalia – the modern city of Marseille. The Greek Pytheas – a contemporary of Alexander the Great and Aristotle – was born there two hundred years later. Eager for new discoveries, he managed to convince the city assembly to finance an extraordinary journey, taking him far beyond the Mediterranean world to the unexplored seas of the far north, in search of amber and pewter. His itinerary established him as one of Europe's first explorers, bringing home a fascinating account of his adventures.” A central image in the manner of ancient nautical maps is surrounded by mosaic trompe l’oeil patterns resembling those of Minoan Crete, especially the ones found in the ancient Palace of Knossos.

I own two colorways of this amazing design. Below the pictures of my scarves are pics of an ancient nautical map and some examples of ancient Minoan mosaics.

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Please join me this week as we explore, learn and share during this fascinating journey of discovery with our wonderful silks.

What a fabulous intro, dear Fifi! Such interesting information! Much to say about your post and intro but I am getting a few cards written and going to my Hermès- loving dr this afternoon so I’ll have to post later. @Cookiefiend, thank you for your fun hosting last week.