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Scarves Scarf of The Day 2024 - Which Hermès scarf are you wearing today?
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Dear @HermesEchidna, Thank you for hosting this week's theme, and good luck! Your first post is excellent, and you have an amazing sense of humor, so I'm sure it will be a delightful week 
. I'm with you in not knowing what I can wear this week for the STEM theme. It's going to take some serious thinking!
. I'm with you in not knowing what I can wear this week for the STEM theme. It's going to take some serious thinking!Thank You to @bunnycat for hosting the ‘chaos week’ of funny and happy scarves and to all of you for sharing your lovely scarves. It is an uplifting way to begin the new year!
This is my first time hosting a theme, so please bear with me and forgive any ommissions or mistakes of tpr functionality and content. Also I do this on my phone, so spelling mistakes and auto”correct” might occur. Also I tend to write too long…
One of the ‘excuses’/reasons I give myself for indulging in collecting scarves is the potential relevance and meaning of their motives. Having worked and studied cross-dicipline of natural science and history my entire Life, especially scarves with such mixed content intrigues me, and I hope you will join me in exploring that this week.
Finding narratives or traces of STEM - science, technology, engenering and mathematics - in Hermes scarves is easy, especially if the subject it widened to it’s full extent - the entire range of Scientific fields and the historic development of human Endeavour to understand and shape the world.
I will try to present a bouquet of examples this week with a new angle each day, but as my collection does definetely not hold all the great manifestations of stem scarves which exist I look so much forward to see and enjoy all your contribution.
And please, please remember that all sotds are welcome - in Scarflandia everything is on topic because scarves IS the topic. Themes are just the sprinkle on the icing.
I want to begin the week with an assortment of examples. And I start in the now of modern tech, with the computer game inspired Super Silk Quest by Elias Kofouros.
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Other designs inspired by digital tech and computers is The Game by the same designer , and we also find some bears (or Apes?) with a gameboy on Nothing but a Dreamer by Mayliss Vigouroux.
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Another direct use of tech equipment in scarves is the x-ray image of Please Check in, by Dimitri Rybaltchenko And there are several other designs related to photo and film technology like Photo Fisnish and Sequences. Please let us see these, and other examples!
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Nothing but a Dreamer also feature whales. Whales were hunted to near extinction in the 16-19th centuries for their blubber and oil to be used for especially fuel for lamps. The Discovery of how to use gas and electricity instead fortunately relieved the stress on whales, but changed a lot more! No doubt the electric and digital revolution has altered our lifes and the State of the Planet in general to extent we do probably not yet understand. But it has also literally enlightened us. Let me see scarves of lightbulbs, neon, lampposts, sparks and beams - all the modern Electric stuff, while I myself stay Old School with more whales and some Lanterns.
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Some Dallet Whales
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Katie Scott: Lanternes, Ballons, et Cocardes
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Preparing for the week, I did not have much luck in finding good examples of maths in my own collection - expect for the eternal counting of scarves, and ignoring the costs- but I know they must be there so please also give us some of your creative examples of Math as well to fire up the week.
My only slightly mathematical scarf is Les Douze Leopards (also know as the Double Leopardy - so in fact there are 2 x 12 = 24 leopards) - which even feature an abacus for us to check our calculations on!
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Les Douze Leopards (Jin Kwon)
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Wish you all a great Day - The Stem story continues tomorrow !
Thank you @SilkCoutureDear @HermesEchidna, Thank you for hosting this week's theme, and good luck! Your first post is excellent, and you have an amazing sense of humor, so I'm sure it will be a delightful week
- I hope and believe this week will make us all look at our scarf from a new angle - I have been very (positively) surprised myself about how previous themes have made me Think and search.
Super interesting and very pretty mousseline!! It's like wearing a piece of history and brilliance around your neck. Thanks for hosting and making Happy Scarf Week so much fun! Here's to a scarf-tastic 2024!
What a fantastic post and start for this week HE!!!! Love all your selections and what a technology find on that Dreamer scarf! And Double Leopardy -now there's reason to "need" a scarf....
I do have some math to share for this week, it just happens.
Here's one I wore sometime last week (or maybe it was the week before...it all blurs together when you work at home).
One of my first mousselines was a 90cm called Vinci by Francoise Heron, which was based on this labyrinth and geometric knot design from Leonardo da Vinci. And of course, da Vinci was not only a master artist, but also made many many scientific and mathematic geometry explorations in his work. I don't recall enough of my art history, but I think it would be a safe bet much of his work in perspective was based in mathematical precision. A true blend of the art and sciences.
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Wood engraving on paper of da Vinci's Labyrinth design from the late 1400s.
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Wonderful design and smashing corlourway! I bookmarked your knot too! Really love it 😍
I came across this on the website randomly the other day, and now you have confirmed my need for it, thank you! (My credit card does not thank you!)
Omg of COURSE you have the Petit Duc I’m hunting for. Gorgeous on you! So jealous.
Haha wonderful hitting a spectrum of invention! And that Galaxy is so perfectly paired with the outfit.
What a fantastic post and start for this week HE!!!! Love all your selections and what a technology find on that Dreamer scarf! And Double Leopardy -
I do have some math to share for this week, it just happens.
Here's one I wore sometime last week (or maybe it was the week before...it all blurs together when you work at home).
One of my first mousselines was a 90cm called Vinci by Francoise Heron, which was based on this labyrinth and geometric knot design from Leonardo da Vinci. And of course, da Vinci was not only a master artist, but also made many many scientific and mathematic geometry explorations in his work. I don't recall enough of my art history, but I think it would be a safe bet much of his work in perspective was based in mathematical precision. A true blend of the art and sciences.
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Wood engraving on paper of da Vinci's Labyrinth design from the late 1400s.
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How beautifully intricate! I love it with your khaki jacket.
Thank you to all gracious hosts for making my Sunday mornings fun! as the first timer posting my sotd on this thread, I am very excited! and, hopefully, I am with today's theme. My sotd is Le Pegase d' Hermes au bloc 140 silk by Christian Renonciat, in blue azur/vert/rose. the original Le Pegase d' Hermes scarf design is described as "a mechanical construction, a tribute to Leonardo da Vinci and the dream of building a new word." In my mind it's a tribute to STEM theme
Beautiful cheerful colors! Looks snuggly.
This is an absolutely stunning cw of LdT. Perfect for the theme!
As others have said, WOW. This is mind-blowingly beautiful. My phone auto corrected that to ‘mind-glowingly’, and it is that too.
How did I not know this came in purple?! Must. Have.
RIGHT??!!! Ugh.
What a fabulous outfit! You look so awesomely put together.
Aaahhhh I love this design so much. Looks great on you.
Hi all! And a very Happy SOTD New Year!
I am the very proud mother of a STEM excelling son. Me myself? SO not STEM. More Renaissance, with both an English and a Science degree.
But anyway, I got this great shawl a couple of years ago to celebrate son’s success in computer science and robotics. Though that’s turned to AI now but WHATeverrrrrrr….
I give you Mr. Farrier:
I am the very proud mother of a STEM excelling son. Me myself? SO not STEM. More Renaissance, with both an English and a Science degree.
But anyway, I got this great shawl a couple of years ago to celebrate son’s success in computer science and robotics. Though that’s turned to AI now but WHATeverrrrrrr….
I give you Mr. Farrier:
Gorgeous Croisette!
That's good find for this week FoxyT!
Gorgeous on you SilkC! This is truly a perfect scarf for this week.
My other scarfmail last week was Tresors d’Un Artiste… this was a scarf I added to my list early but then decided I wasn’t sure about the color. I totally bought it on a whim the other week when I saw it on Fashionphile for under retail in brand new condition, with no analysis of what I would wear it with.
I was somewhat prepared to hate it by the time it got here, esp since in the meantime I found the red d’Orphee but…
holy delectable deliciousness Batman!!!
It’s sooooo amazing?!
I am gonna say this is more or less theme adjacent. It’s about the tools of an artist as opposed to a scientist or engineer, but they need a toolbox for their work too, and I imagine an ingenious STEM engineer could craft something clever with what the artist has here.
I was somewhat prepared to hate it by the time it got here, esp since in the meantime I found the red d’Orphee but…
holy delectable deliciousness Batman!!!
It’s sooooo amazing?!
I am gonna say this is more or less theme adjacent. It’s about the tools of an artist as opposed to a scientist or engineer, but they need a toolbox for their work too, and I imagine an ingenious STEM engineer could craft something clever with what the artist has here.
That is the question. I waxed on and on about that to @Lellabelle . "Blurple".
I use a lot of "blurple" in my work. One of my most used colors. I wonder, if you were to actually look at it under a jewelers loupe, would you find that maybe the threads in one direction are blue, and the other are purple?I loved this bright and colorful one when it came out! So cute on!
Thank you Jereni!
This is so fabulous on you! It looks entirely different folded each way!
Thank you SilkC! I sort of think this one may be from my birth year. It does not feel at all like any of the moussie materials from anything I've had from the 90s-onwards. But I don't have any way of knowing. Just the hand. The color scheme is very late 60s-early 70s. So in addition to the subject matter, the actual scarf feels a bit like ancient history too (kind of like me...
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This beautiful shawl is past season, so if you have your heart set on it, grab it while you can! Website returns are fairly straightforward too.
This is the nicest compliment ever. THANK YOU.
Congratulations on your new Tresors d’Un Artiste! It is delectable! That white hem is yummy. You have real color talent.
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