Good morning, dear Scarflandians, and
Happy New Year! I hope it’s gotten off to a great start for everyone. Many thanks to Bunnycat for getting the
2022 Scarf Party started, and to all of you for showing your glorious and happy silks.
Scarfies, let’s keep the party movin’
! Because we’re goin’ to that place
Where the Wild Things Are!
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Creatures Real & Imaginary,
especially in unusual colours.
Snakes, real creatures, come in amazing colors, but I couldn’t find a photo that didn’t frighten the wilies out of me, and I certainly didn’t want to frighten
you, so I’ll just tell you a story. Once at the National Zoo in Washington, DC, I saw the most exquisite, fuscia-colored pit viper, a tiny and elegant miracle of gorgeous iridescent pinks. It was breathtaking to behold. This remarkable and beautiful creature came from the American Southwest, where there is so much red, sand and pink rock. I was fairly mesmerized by it, despite the fact that I am terrified of snakes. (On a side note, it was the exact color of an Estee Lauder lipstick I wore in my twenties
.) All kidding aside, it was a most extraordinary specimen.
Here is another creature - Wooley’s hot-pants wearin’, rock-n-rollin’ One-Eyed, One-Horned Flying Purple People Eater, thought to be extinct, but who knows?
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A few specimens from my own silk zoo and throughout the week I’ll exhibit others.
How about the crazy half-horse chimeras playing games on Della Cavalleria Favolosa? From Hermès’ Story Behind, “Della Cavalleria is one of the most extraordinary treatises in the history of riding. Written by Georg Engelhard von Löhneysen, it was published in Bavaria at the very beginning of the 17th century, and now a part of the Émile Hermès collection. Illustrated with baroque engravings, it presents some German sleighs drawn by fabulous creatures and richly adorned horses. Playing with these, the designer pushes extravagance even further by assembling horses' bodies and chimerical monsters. Keeping in the theme of games, she humorously gives one a racket, a yoyo or a diabolo to another, creating strange visual associations worthy of an exquisite corpse.”
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Who dat peeping out of the gingham and stripes? Dallet’s marvelously rendered cats.
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The lion is definitely not sleeping tonight. Oooh, he’s so pretty with his lavender markings.
View attachment 5292332 Please show us your colorful Wild Things - all sorts, real or imaginary!
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And I have to master the posy knot 
