Scarves Scarf of The Day 2024 - Which Hermès scarf are you wearing today?

[papertiger]

Full weekly 2024 scarf-theme calendar is available here

 

[Nomad]

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: Catalogue d'Objets Introuvables.
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I love it!! I am not spatially gifted and could not make that heart myself haha. But I have received many a paper hearts from son.
YOU were my inspiration for my colorway!! Thank you!! I hate not remembering who inspired me. I bought the yellow first as a placeholder until I found this one we twin on. . Anddddd you were the one who inspired me on cocottes as well! We have the shared love of the theme. And Pokémon to my memory haha.

 

[Awillow]

I guess you could argue that Faubourg Tropical is a STEM scarf if you look at the building as an architectural drawing (axonometric) or if you went the botany route. I originally left this in the boutique but questioned my sanity thanks to @Living.la.vida.fifi and @lanit. She has joined her peachy sister in my collection. Keeping warm while taking the dogs out before the snow starts. First to show its inky blue. Second how I will really wear it to stay warm in freezing temps with a parka!

 

[Lellabelle]

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.
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Little pup riding on Unicorn looks like my little rescue pup Remy.
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Quintessence (also sorry I missed jewelry week) with my lavender hues pearls View attachment 5930291
Chorus Stellarum features an astrological background
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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?View attachment 5930294View attachment 5930297

Gorgeous, @lanit! You do fun and elegant so well.
Remy really does look like the Canis Minor in the illustration!

 

[Croisette7]

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.

Thank you so much!

 

[Croisette7]

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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Congrats on your pink Triples, it's pretty!
The Buren columns are in the Palais Royal.

 

[LKBNOLA]

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.
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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.
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Now have many more pages to catch up on this new thread let alone end of last year! XoxoL

How lovely to have seen the Escher @lanit! Your Ecume is a dream...

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All three you posted are wonderful @Pirula but I especially love this fun and happy Pattisserie on you-- that pink hem! (and thank you for the Pantin City compliment)

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: Catalogue d'Objets Introuvables.
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These are so great @xincinsin! The whimsey of the latter in particular. I would just love to read the entries...

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.
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Little pup riding on Unicorn looks like my little rescue pup Remy.
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Quintessence (also sorry I missed jewelry week) with my lavender hues pearls View attachment 5930291
Chorus Stellarum features an astrological background
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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?View attachment 5930294View attachment 5930297

Beautiful-- we are twins on the first two and sisters on the last. Lovely bag and jewelry combos too. Your pup is adorabl @lanit!

I guess you could argue that Faubourg Tropical is a STEM scarf if you look at the building as an architectural drawing (axonometric) or if you went the botany route. I originally left this in the boutique but questioned my sanity thanks to @Living.la.vida.fifi and @lanit. She has joined her peachy sister in my collection. Keeping warm while taking the dogs out before the snow starts. First to show its inky blue. Second how I will really wear it to stay warm in freezing temps with a parka!
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I, um, may have had the same confused regrets and followed your path @Awillow! It looks beautiful on you. Glad you remedied the situation...

 

[Pirula]

I would argue that the Manufacture of Boucleries (see what I did there?) would require some pretty precise math/measurements/machines…

 

[Nomad]

Hopping in on a page….

Hi all!

It’s my first time posting in Scarflandia! I just wanted to share that all of the drool-worthy posts here of the Animapolis scarf (you all are secret enablers ) have led me to purchase my first H silk! Up until now, I’ve been a cashmere girlie!

Also not pictured is my first scarf ring! I’m excited to learn all the styles through your posts! I’m so inspired by this community.

Hopefully it still counts as my in-theme scarf of the day if I’m not ready to wear her yet… I feel like I need more time just to admire the print!

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Oh I am so thankful this was saved from my last time “quoting”. Welcome!! This is a spectacular colorway of a spectacular design. So glad you joined in.

Wearing Flanerie a Versailles today. Looking forward to seeing everyone's STEM scarves!

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I love a scarf design from a site. This has the grid on it, very math like . Sisters

Here's my contribution for science week, Botanica Grafica:

"Arumfel, Centummorbia, Eupatorium, Loc Sumutri, Spatula fœtida, Zurumbeth… The most scholarly might perhaps recognize these species, listed in the index of The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes, the 16th century botanical manual used by Gianpaolo Pagni as a backdrop for his new variety of herbarium. Layer after layer, as if planting seeds, he superimposed botanical plates and his stamped designs, the fruit of a graphic language to which only he holds the key. A flower blossomed, then another, until there were twelve in every color!"

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Ooooo that black and those colors in it are chefs kiss.

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?!

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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.

An amazing addition. I love this cw of this design too!! So many good ones. It’s perfect on you! And twins w @LKBNOLA

Today is about Scientific explorations - about coluring in the white areas of the maps and reaching the final frontiers.

Certainly many expeditions through history have had less noble motives than a quest for knowledge, and narratives of especially European expedition history are in need of some serious decolonization.

But let us try to find the examples and designs which still hold some beauty, regardless of harsh historical facts, and find scarves which tell us stories of human urges to explore the planet, time and space.

Look how this one leopard (of the Douze Leopards) is Dreaming about travels to unknown places!

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Sandra Laroche’s two expedition scarves, Per Astra ad Astra and Le Geographe are obvious examples , and there are also certain polar-related scarves, which I , alas, cannot model in person, but I am sure somebody in here will bring them out. And there must be more!?

Le Geographe - based on the Baudin expedition which set sail in 1800 with the two ships Géographe and Naturaliste to map the coast of Australia. Both zoologists and botanists were a part of the expedition to also record the wildlife and fauna of the continent. Four of the members of the party are portraied on the corners of the scarf, which also feautures the ship itself, an Australian map and examples of Said wildlife.

Le Geographe ( photos from two different cws)
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Another Laroche design Show the travels of French naval officer Lapérouse who in 1785 lead an expedition around the Globe. The design show a number of the places and people he encountered along the way, like in Hawai, Alaska, Mauritius, Japan, Russia and Australia. The expedition and the lives of its members was abruptly ended when both of the two ships of the expedition wrecked on Vaniroko - an Island seen in the center of the scarf. The ships were named La Boussole ( a compas) and L’Astrolabe (an instrument used for determining latitude by measuring attitudes of stars).

Per Astra ad astra
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When the need to explore hit us, not even the sky is the limit, and space race, sputniks, shuttles, sattelites and rockets are plentifull in so many designs, reflecting the fascination of space travel. This is an area where my collection is painfully inadequate - but again Nothing but a Dreamer rescues me. And Rocket Racoon (of the Guardians of the Galaxy…)

Mayliss Vigouroux: Nothing but a Dreamer
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Kermit Oliver: Faune et Flores du Texas ~ Texas Wildlife
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As my probably sotd I am so exited to show you the first grail mail of 2024: Les Voyages de Pytheas which has been top of my list for some time. Depicting the travels in 4th century BC by Pytheas from Marseille to Northern Europe and even the arctic, this is a design I had to have and am thrilled to try on today for the first time.
Aline Honoré: Les Voyages de Pytheas
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Wish you all a day of smooth sailing !

Ahhhhmazing post! I love your collection and knowledge and humor. You killed me w pangs of regret with your photo of the travel dreaming leaopard haha. And congratulations on your pytheas. We are twins! It’s a special design w so much history on it

Starting the week on theme with baking, which is a science we can all enjoy. I'm not much good at doing it myself, but I'm an expert when it comes to the taste test!

La Patisserie Francaise gavroche is SOTD, and my pink and orange matches the beautiful sunrise here today.

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Brilliant connection to theme. I love that design!

I think Echec au Roi matches the theme

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A popular design and I see why here. So soft and beautiful in this cw

Today with Kachinas

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Beautiful! Translates so well in both formats

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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Woo hoo! Congratulations! It is def in theme for math. And I have always loved the metallics in this cw. It was tough for me to resist..at retail price. But wouldn’t have been for me either in reseller price.

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.
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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.
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Now have many more pages to catch up on this new thread let alone end of last year! XoxoL

Fascinating post! There was a gav with an eye trick of duckling and rabbit 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!

Awe yay to scarfie get together! In Paris?

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There just wasn’t a bad cw in this design. Love this

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.
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Little pup riding on Unicorn looks like my little rescue pup Remy.
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Quintessence (also sorry I missed jewelry week) with my lavender hues pearls View attachment 5930291
Chorus Stellarum features an astrological background
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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?View attachment 5930294View attachment 5930297

Oh wow. Such a pretty lavender.

I guess you could argue that Faubourg Tropical is a STEM scarf if you look at the building as an architectural drawing (axonometric) or if you went the botany route. I originally left this in the boutique but questioned my sanity thanks to @Living.la.vida.fifi and @lanit. She has joined her peachy sister in my collection. Keeping warm while taking the dogs out before the snow starts. First to show its inky blue. Second how I will really wear it to stay warm in freezing temps with a parka!
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Gorgeous in this more monochromatic cw w that fun pop of yellow I see. The peach one is so gorg too. So feminine

 

[CatScarfLover]

I think Echec au Roi matches the theme

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[GloWW0rM]

Fabulous intro @HermesEchidna with wonderful examples! Thank you for taking on the role of guest scarf mistress, it's going to be a great week!

The 'scarf apology bonus' is real! Over the past couple of years I've had a few, but the most recent is my favorite. My DH was babysitting our little niece, who is 3 1/2 and potty training (I was working). She had a...ummm...messy/stinky bomb in her pull-ups that he just couldn't face. Boom! New scarf for me!


Your Cent Plis des Miao is just gorgeous @ninakt. My goal is to be your sister with this design by the end of the year.


I love everything about the shawl @GloWW0rM, you look radiant wearing it!


The perfect addition to your stunning collection @foxi trini! Love them all.


I almost fell out of my chair @Croisette7 when I saw your gorgeous brooch. It is TDF! Your scarf is beautiful too and perfectly matched.

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.

Fabulous post @Redbirdhermes and a fabulous Exposition Universelle. I didn't get this when it was available online and very much regret it. Would you mind telling me which colorway you have? I LOVE it!


Your pattern mixing skills are over the top @Snausages, really well done! I'm coveting your Hermes Electrique, so darling.


Your Vinci is TDF @bunnycat! Really, just wow.
Thank you for hosting such a Fun Week last week, it was the perfect way to start the new year!

You're perfectly on theme @CatScarfLover, and it's one of my favorites too!


Just perfect @scarf1, and your colorway is the bomb! running to add it to my wish list....

I adore La Voie Lactée, such a fantastic design @Cordeliere. Whatever color you see - it's so lovely. Does it glow in the dark? I think @Redbirdhermes has a 90cm that does!


Gorgeous blue scarf with a green hem - one of my favorite combos @Croisette7. Just gorgeous!


More gorgeous blues and greens. This colorway looks stunning on you @Foxy trini and is perfect with your sweater.


Just fab @SilkCouture, the best colorway of this design IMO.


Versailles is an architectural marvel, I declare you on theme @mktlim!

What a stunner @Pirula, such vibrant and happy colors!


Gorgeous @Jereni, I'm so pleased you got this scarf! I was following it on Fashionfile too. It's so much more beautiful and vibrant in your pics and I'm happy you're the one who bought it! My credit card is too!

Thank you so much @MabelJo !

 

[Agrume]

A worthy choice, and beautifully styled! I love the sweater, and the choice of knot is ideal to show the design to great advantage - reminiscent of mossy rocks and green mountains

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!

Thank you @Maedi! That is a perfect description of the salon at Windsor Court-- festive and elegant!

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...

Thank you, Lellabelle and LKBNOLA!

 

[HermesEchidna]

Starting the week on theme with baking, which is a science we can all enjoy. I'm not much good at doing it myself, but I'm an expert when it comes to the taste test!

La Patisserie Francaise gavroche is SOTD, and my pink and orange matches the beautiful sunrise here today.

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I think Echec au Roi matches the theme

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Wonderful selections for the day!!! Those older designs have so much amazing detail and texture!

And CONGRATULATIONS on the Pytheas!!! It is just beautiful. This is one (and in this colorway) that I’ve debated many times. So happy for you!

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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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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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.
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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.
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Now have many more pages to catch up on this new thread let alone end of last year! XoxoL

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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!

View attachment 5930284View attachment 5930285View attachment 5930286And as I fully agree that baking is so totally MATH, here’s my Patisserie…

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: Catalogue d'Objets Introuvables.
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View attachment 5930302View attachment 5930303Ok 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.
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Little pup riding on Unicorn looks like my little rescue pup Remy.
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Quintessence (also sorry I missed jewelry week) with my lavender hues pearls View attachment 5930291
Chorus Stellarum features an astrological background
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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?View attachment 5930294View attachment 5930297

I guess you could argue that Faubourg Tropical is a STEM scarf if you look at the building as an architectural drawing (axonometric) or if you went the botany route. I originally left this in the boutique but questioned my sanity thanks to @Living.la.vida.fifi and @lanit. She has joined her peachy sister in my collection. Keeping warm while taking the dogs out before the snow starts. First to show its inky blue. Second how I will really wear it to stay warm in freezing temps with a parka!
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Dear all. I love the Baking, the origami, the Maths, the architecture, the astronomies, space crafts, inventions, Urban jungles, cityscapes and time labs!!!
Apologies for not mastering the full multiquote experience though…..

 

[ninakt]

This might fit to this weeks category, hence math skils are needed to navigate.
La France, new to me.

 

[FizzyWater]

Sadly, Technology doesn't always work as intended. Thus, Glitch, a men's cotton/silk 100. It's my only variant of Ex Libris, so I might as well take a picture in front of one of the many bookcases...


(P.S. Yes, that's the book Tulipomania behind me...)

 

[Croisette7]

Hopping in on a page….

Oh I am so thankful this was saved from my last time “quoting”. Welcome!! This is a spectacular colorway of a spectacular design. So glad you joined in.

I love a scarf design from a site. This has the grid on it, very math like . Sisters

Ooooo that black and those colors in it are chefs kiss.

An amazing addition. I love this cw of this design too!! So many good ones. It’s perfect on you! And twins w @LKBNOLA

Ahhhhmazing post! I love your collection and knowledge and humor. You killed me w pangs of regret with your photo of the travel dreaming leaopard haha. And congratulations on your pytheas. We are twins! It’s a special design w so much history on it

Brilliant connection to theme. I love that design!

A popular design and I see why here. So soft and beautiful in this cw

Beautiful! Translates so well in both formats

Woo hoo! Congratulations! It is def in theme for math. And I have always loved the metallics in this cw. It was tough for me to resist..at retail price. But wouldn’t have been for me either in reseller price.

Fascinating post! There was a gav with an eye trick of duckling and rabbit too.

Awe yay to scarfie get together! In Paris?

There just wasn’t a bad cw in this design. Love this

Oh wow. Such a pretty lavender.

Gorgeous in this more monochromatic cw w that fun pop of yellow I see. The peach one is so gorg too. So feminine

Thank you, Nomad!