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Another wonderful post @HermesEchidna. I love how you pore over your examples for the perfect vignette to illustrate your theme. The dreaming leopard has captured my heart. Congratulations on your beautiful Pytheas-- it is a marvel.
Thank you @MabelJo. It was bravely rescued by me for a bargain-basement price on account of a heinous yellow stain ringing the whole center of a grey and white scarf! Two drops of Dawn and a few washings/rinsings later and it was pristine! I have a tender spot for this beauty as a result. My Cinderella story scarf!Your Projet de Voiture Petit-duc Bateau is gorgeous @LKBNOL. I just love scarves that have writing on them. Your fascinator is enchanting, the perfect topper for an afternoon tea.
Thank you @Maedi! That is a perfect description of the salon at Windsor Court-- festive and elegant!
Thank you @LKBNOLA - even though we live rather close to the celebrations, I admit I just watched in on TV. Just too many people in the city center for me. But I wore Couronnes and we had cake and in the evening we went outside and glimpsed some of the festive fireworks while drinking pink cremant
You are preaching to the choir -- as someone who lives right on the Mardi Gras Uptown Parade route, I have the noisy revelry non-stop for a few weekends in the season. Sometimes hunkering in and watching from the wondow is the best plan @HermesEchidna. Couronnes is the perfect scarf for the occasion!Just gorgeous @Agrume-- beautifully styled, too. And full of green and white flowers to remind you of your mountains...
Beautiful on you @LKBNOLA and I can see why this was an easy choice for you. It suits you well and the aubergine is a perfect backdrop to pull out some of the lavendery tones and ’blurples’ (thank you, Bunny!)I am excited to share a new scarf today for which I can blame/thank @Jereni. Ever since she modeled this Pantin City on the seasonal thread I was smitten but thought it might be too similar to others in my collex. Then I saw it in person and fell hard for the silvery lines and the general beauty of the colors. Still I resisted. That resistance crumbled to dust when I found it NWT for less than retail through the help of another enabling scarf friend. So with
to @Jereni for the inspiration and a
to @Snausages, here she is! On theme, because every single city on the planet is an ode to STEM!
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Reading @HermesEchidna's wonderful post (especially taken with that leopard dreaming of far-off places), I searched out the story behind Pantin City and sure enough, it fits the theme of exploration, at least in the sense of an imagined future vision!
"In this design, Mamadou Cisse presents a vibrant, futuristic vision of Pantin. Seen from above, this utopian architectural landscape gives a sense of the town's creative effervescence. Its colorful geometric scene seems to come to life before your very eyes."
And this City is staring down some seriously cold weather but ready to celebrate no matter what!
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It’s freezing here too at the moment. Joining many of you in what is an extreme winter cold. Stay warm everyone!
Wow it’s gorgeous. And wonderful on you! No sure I’ve seen this cw before. Just beautiful.
Thank you. I don’t have the blue. I have a turquoise gav tho. On chopping block since got the pink 90. Cutthroat island is Alive! Its alive!!
Happy 2024 scarfies! Was a little disoriented by the scarf thread from last year not allowing me to reply to all your gracious and kind replies so I hope this THANK YOU ALL shout out will hopefully make up for not being able to reply on the closed thread! Thank you mods for the new themes!
Though transitions in my life have shifted in terms of my current life have restrained me from new scarf purchases ( and also my new year resolution to enjoy what I have) I remain a die hard scarf lover for the sheer appreciation of the artistry that goes into these designs.
We recently traveled to Amsterdam last fall and visited a marvelous Escher exhibit. So grateful to view this artist’s impeccable and highly precise artwork that obviously shows his leanings towards architectural modeling historical and cultural affinities. I pair that with the fantastical work of Ugo Gattoni who introduced Hippopolis and the very cool Les Bains that was a nod to Escher’s work.
I did not know that Escher also was influenced very early on by Japanese
Woodcuts and his print juxtaposing cranes and fish delighted me. Many of my scarves and shawls feature cranes and Fish ( well it also happens that I’m a Pisces too).
My two favs are Ex Libris Kimono and Ecume.
Now have many more pages to catch up on this new thread let alone end of last year! XoxoL
Though transitions in my life have shifted in terms of my current life have restrained me from new scarf purchases ( and also my new year resolution to enjoy what I have) I remain a die hard scarf lover for the sheer appreciation of the artistry that goes into these designs.
We recently traveled to Amsterdam last fall and visited a marvelous Escher exhibit. So grateful to view this artist’s impeccable and highly precise artwork that obviously shows his leanings towards architectural modeling historical and cultural affinities. I pair that with the fantastical work of Ugo Gattoni who introduced Hippopolis and the very cool Les Bains that was a nod to Escher’s work.
I did not know that Escher also was influenced very early on by Japanese
Woodcuts and his print juxtaposing cranes and fish delighted me. Many of my scarves and shawls feature cranes and Fish ( well it also happens that I’m a Pisces too).
My two favs are Ex Libris Kimono and Ecume.
Now have many more pages to catch up on this new thread let alone end of last year! XoxoL
Super clever and so true for me as well @violetkool. I am an expert consumer of what other people bake!
I agree @Croisette7-- he often helps me choose and is a real fan of the classic and iconic designs. And as for the fascinator, I will model it during the festivities!
Echec au Roi is such a cool design and this CSGM is the most beautiful neutral! Love this cheerful Kachinas, too @Croisette7.
An absolutely amazing post in every concieveble way @Nomad! I was working my way backwards while having coffee and it has taken me three times as logn because I am googling everything you mention. Fascinating. It is so true that old expression "By your children you'll be taught." So wonderful that his imagination was sparked by this and that it led to so much creative joy and learning for you both. And to find an expression of all this in your H scarves is, as we say, the most exciting lagniappe of all. And thank you for bringing Cocottes de Soie and Metamorphose d'un Carre to my own attention. I have the one and am expecting the other on account of your enthusiasm and enablement.So much creativity with the first two themes of the year. Loving everyone’s contributions. Thank you @bunnycat and @HermesEchidna for leading the charge. I never got to post last week and would love to add my one, late. The top scarf I thought of relating to week 1 with levity was the fun loving rascals on Les Triples. It is just a happy making scarf to me. I saw some other scarfies had the same thoughts. And @Living.la.vida.fifi where are those black and white striped stand boxes located in Paris? I would love to go visit there this summer.
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And @Pirula reminded me about the connections we can make with family and scarves, AND science/math haha. My son is also studying stem in college. I bought metamorphose d’un carre because of the origami on it and my son’s love of origami. It requires precise folding and, at times, a lengthy blueprint of folds to get them just right, along with math for the right proportions. There are also tools used when you get real serious so your folds are perfect.
Most kids first foray into paper folding is with paper airplanes. A time honored science experiment in schools to measure who can get their paper airplane to travel the furthest. My son’s school did at least.
I know there was a recent scarf design with a bunch of paper airplanes on it! In a corner?? If anyone can remember which design it was I would greatly appreciate it!! In fact if I think about it there are a couple I have seen in the whimsical design category that have paper airplanes on it.
So here is my gav. I usually wear gavs in my hair. And here is my tattoo tribute to my son. I have another origami tattoo on the way on my leg.
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There was an exhibition on origami in 1959 called “Plane Geometry and Fancy Figures," which was held in the United States, taking place at The Cooper Union in New York. So right there is a math connection to origami.
Here is some amazing origami art.
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Here is more Hermes origami on the new Flagship design
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NERD ALERT— And my last nerding out on science, math and origami is about a club at MIT called OrigaMIT. My son was obsessed. The club had a project making a 3D Menger Sponge from business cards. The Menger sponge is a fractal curve. It is a three-dimensional generalization of the one-dimensional Cantor set and two-dimensional sierpinski carpet.
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For those in UK, the MegaMenger project to make 20 separate level 3 Menger sponges across the world from business cards and eventually connect them for a level 4 was started at Queen Mary University in London. OrigaMIT has one level 3 on display.
Call me crazy but wasn’t there a scarf with a menger sponge on it? Didn’t we talk about this on a sotd thread?? I’ll have to do a search.
Soooo long story short..origami’s connection to math and science on my Gav, and cocotttes de soie, and I am sure on many other designs I am not thinking of. But would love a list if anyone finds origami on their scarf. I might have to do a separate thread asking for scarfies origami finds
Cocottes de soie too
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Came to share my Échec and beautiful @Croisette7 beat me to it. I agree it’s on theme so here’s mine. Enjoy the Fifi bonus!
And as I fully agree that baking is so totally MATH, here’s my Patisserie…Lovely! Love the purple!I am excited to share a new scarf today for which I can blame/thank @Jereni. Ever since she modeled this Pantin City on the seasonal thread I was smitten but thought it might be too similar to others in my collex
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Reading @HermesEchidna's wonderful post (especially taken with that leopard dreaming of far-off places), I searched out the story behind Pantin City and sure enough, it fits the theme of exploration, at least in the sense of an imagined future vision!
"In this design, Mamadou Cisse presents a vibrant, futuristic vision of Pantin. Seen from above, this utopian architectural landscape gives a sense of the town's creative effervescence. Its colorful geometric scene seems to come to life before your very eyes."
And this City is staring down some seriously cold weather but ready to celebrate no matter what!
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I did an origami heart with my Metamophose - just for funSo much creativity with the first two themes of the year. Loving everyone’s contributions. Thank you @bunnycat and @HermesEchidna for leading the charge. I never got to post last week and would love to add my one, late. The top scarf I thought of relating to week 1 with levity was the fun loving rascals on Les Triples. It is just a happy making scarf to me. I saw some other scarfies had the same thoughts. And @Living.la.vida.fifi where are those black and white striped stand boxes located in Paris? I would love to go visit there this summer.
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And @Pirula reminded me about the connections we can make with family and scarves, AND science/math haha. My son is also studying stem in college. I bought metamorphose d’un carre because of the origami on it and my son’s love of origami. It requires precise folding and, at times, a lengthy blueprint of folds to get them just right, along with math for the right proportions. There are also tools used when you get real serious so your folds are perfect.
Most kids first foray into paper folding is with paper airplanes. A time honored science experiment in schools to measure who can get their paper airplane to travel the furthest. My son’s school did at least.
I know there was a recent scarf design with a bunch of paper airplanes on it! In a corner?? If anyone can remember which design it was I would greatly appreciate it!! In fact if I think about it there are a couple I have seen in the whimsical design category that have paper airplanes on it.
So here is my gav. I usually wear gavs in my hair. And here is my tattoo tribute to my son. I have another origami tattoo on the way on my leg.
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There was an exhibition on origami in 1959 called “Plane Geometry and Fancy Figures," which was held in the United States, taking place at The Cooper Union in New York. So right there is a math connection to origami.
Here is some amazing origami art.
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Here is more Hermes origami on the new Flagship design
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NERD ALERT— And my last nerding out on science, math and origami is about a club at MIT called OrigaMIT. My son was obsessed. The club had a project making a 3D Menger Sponge from business cards. The Menger sponge is a fractal curve. It is a three-dimensional generalization of the one-dimensional Cantor set and two-dimensional sierpinski carpet.
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For those in UK, the MegaMenger project to make 20 separate level 3 Menger sponges across the world from business cards and eventually connect them for a level 4 was started at Queen Mary University in London. OrigaMIT has one level 3 on display.
Call me crazy but wasn’t there a scarf with a menger sponge on it? Didn’t we talk about this on a sotd thread?? I’ll have to do a search.
Soooo long story short..origami’s connection to math and science on my Gav, and cocotttes de soie, and I am sure on many other designs I am not thinking of. But would love a list if anyone finds origami on their scarf
Cocottes de soie too
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Also, Cocottes in pink and red.
Plus a gav with really wild inventions: Catalogue d'Objets Introuvables.
These colors are glorious!I did an origami heart with my Metamophose - just for fun
Also, Cocottes in pink and red.
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Plus a gav with really wild inventions.
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Ok I’m on a roll. Here’s Laboratoire!Also posting this cool drawing of constellations (Astronomy anyone?)
Hits my astrological funny bones with the few scarves that gravitated to my tansu throughout the years.Not to mention crossing over to the time space continuum. Drawing: Constellations of Monoceros the Unicorn, Canis Major and Minor from A Celestial Atlas by Alexander Jamieson.
Little pup riding on Unicorn looks like my little rescue pup Remy.
Quintessence (also sorry I missed jewelry week) with my lavender hues pearls
Chorus Stellarum features an astrological background
And the fantasy futuristic Space Derby because who knows maybe one day we will be racing for and on the moon again some day in the future?
Hits my astrological funny bones with the few scarves that gravitated to my tansu throughout the years.Not to mention crossing over to the time space continuum. Drawing: Constellations of Monoceros the Unicorn, Canis Major and Minor from A Celestial Atlas by Alexander Jamieson.
Little pup riding on Unicorn looks like my little rescue pup Remy.
Quintessence (also sorry I missed jewelry week) with my lavender hues pearls
Chorus Stellarum features an astrological background
And the fantasy futuristic Space Derby because who knows maybe one day we will be racing for and on the moon again some day in the future?
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