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Humans have been wanting to fly like the birds since before written history existed. During Sherlock Holmes week back in 2020, I did a four day examination of Reves d'Espace, beginning with this post on December 7, 2020.
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Reves d'Espace shows some of our first attempts to fly, names many brave aviators, and ends with an array of modern aircraft, including the Space Shuttle. Many thanks to @Living.la.vida.fifi for pointing this scarf out to me over three years ago.
The four astrolabes in the corners of this scarf design were essential for navigation by the stars prior to the invention of accurate timepieces, and was carried by early explorers, as was pointed out today by @HermesEchidna. The astrolabe was so important that it, along with a sextant, is shown in this photo of the original Apollo 13 crew prior to their nearly disastrous flight.
The scarf has the names of pioneering aviators, including Neil Armstrong, who was the first man to walk on the moon, and Chuck Yeager, who was the first to break the sound barrier while in level flight. Charles Lindbergh, who was the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, is also shown in the picture below.
The orange Breitling limited edition of Reves d'Espace celebrates the maker of timepieces that are popular among pilots.
Reves d'Espace Breitling edition is my STEM scarf of the day. I'm also wearing my astrolabe pendant.
Scarves - Scarf Of The Day 2020 - Which Hermès scarf are you wearing today?
My very best wishes to everyone for the New Year to all SOTD regulars, occasional posters and newcomers alike :party: . The SOTD 2021 thread is now open and ready for business: https://forum.purseblog.com/threads/scarf-of-the-day-2021-which-hermes-scarf-are-you-wearing-today.1038061/ The...
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Reves d'Espace shows some of our first attempts to fly, names many brave aviators, and ends with an array of modern aircraft, including the Space Shuttle. Many thanks to @Living.la.vida.fifi for pointing this scarf out to me over three years ago.
The four astrolabes in the corners of this scarf design were essential for navigation by the stars prior to the invention of accurate timepieces, and was carried by early explorers, as was pointed out today by @HermesEchidna. The astrolabe was so important that it, along with a sextant, is shown in this photo of the original Apollo 13 crew prior to their nearly disastrous flight.
The scarf has the names of pioneering aviators, including Neil Armstrong, who was the first man to walk on the moon, and Chuck Yeager, who was the first to break the sound barrier while in level flight. Charles Lindbergh, who was the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, is also shown in the picture below.
The orange Breitling limited edition of Reves d'Espace celebrates the maker of timepieces that are popular among pilots.
Reves d'Espace Breitling edition is my STEM scarf of the day. I'm also wearing my astrolabe pendant.
Lovely, just lovely!
Pytheas is so beautiful. I love watching the marine life on it. I have on a light blue CW.
That dreaming leopard is adorable. You are doing a really good job of hosting. Hosting looks like a lot of work. Thank you for doing it.
That Triples is beautiful. I haven't seen a mod shot of that colorway before. Looks really appealing.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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Dear lanit!
My goal as well. To admire more what I have. Just missing a few more grails. After that, very limited purchases.
I hope.
@Croisette7 @Pirula
Your almost simultaneous posting of the oh so elegant Echec au Roi reminds me of looking at fashion magazines that have the feature "Which celebrity wore it better?" Then there are pictures of two famous people wearing the same dress and a report on how people voted. We are not going to vote. You're both wore it fabulously. This is clearly an example of great scarfies (our celebrities) have great collections with the same creme de la creme.
Your almost simultaneous posting of the oh so elegant Echec au Roi reminds me of looking at fashion magazines that have the feature "Which celebrity wore it better?" Then there are pictures of two famous people wearing the same dress and a report on how people voted. We are not going to vote. You're both wore it fabulously. This is clearly an example of great scarfies (our celebrities) have great collections with the same creme de la creme.
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OMG. I knew it existed, but have never really looked at it. Shame on me. Thank you for putting this awsome scarf on my radar!!Humans have been wanting to fly like the birds since before written history existed. During Sherlock Holmes week back in 2020, I did a four day examination of Reves d'Espace, beginning with this post on December 7, 2020.
Scarves - Scarf Of The Day 2020 - Which Hermès scarf are you wearing today?
My very best wishes to everyone for the New Year to all SOTD regulars, occasional posters and newcomers alike :party: . The SOTD 2021 thread is now open and ready for business: https://forum.purseblog.com/threads/scarf-of-the-day-2021-which-hermes-scarf-are-you-wearing-today.1038061/ The...
Reves d'Espace shows some of our first attempts to fly, names many brave aviators, and ends with an array of modern aircraft, including the Space Shuttle. Many thanks to @Living.la.vida.fifi for pointing this scarf out to me over three years ago.
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The four astrolabes in the corners of this scarf design were essential for navigation by the stars prior to the invention of accurate timepieces, and was carried by early explorers, as was pointed out today by @HermesEchidna. The astrolabe was so important that it, along with a sextant, is shown in this photo of the original Apollo 13 crew prior to their nearly disastrous flight.
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The scarf has the names of pioneering aviators, including Neil Armstrong, who was the first man to walk on the moon, and Chuck Yeager, who was the first to break the sound barrier while in level flight. Charles Lindbergh, who was the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, is also shown in the picture below.
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The orange Breitling limited edition of Reves d'Espace celebrates the maker of timepieces that are popular among pilots.
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Reves d'Espace Breitling edition is my STEM scarf of the day. I'm also wearing my astrolabe pendant.
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You are welcome. Reves d'Espace is about scientific exploration from its earliest days. I don't think that it is collected very much but it is about as STEM as an Hermes scarf can be.
I just looked up the meaning of Echidna. Spiney anteater.Thank you @Cordeliere
I should have known it would be an animal. That is a very special animal. Do you have a scarf with one on it? Have you said to DH the words "but it has an echidna on it" passed your lips yet?
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Alas no. I have not (yet) found any scarf with echidnas on it. Platypus are there yes, and they are a monotreme animal like echidnas, but Hermes have not found my letter in their suggestion box about echidnas.I just looked up the meaning of Echidna. Spiney anteater.
Echidna has a double appeal as it is also a mythical classical greek monster believed to be ‘mother of all monsters’ - my kids Roll their eyes , but I Can relate
… and I am quite sure DH would Roll eyes in his calm way as well, as he usually does when the sentence “ but it has [inset important animal] “ is mentioned- sometimes muttering “this is borderline pathological”. Happy to say our stricty seperated financial affairs is the key to a long and happy marriage
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I have been lucky enough to see an echidna in the wild in Australia. Not sure how rare they are. It rolled up into a ball as we approached it!I just looked up the meaning of Echidna. Spiney anteater.
Absolutely it fits!!! Navigation is key!!!
Oh a double fit - both IT (in)functionality and historic flower mania!!!
Great designs both - and again new to me. Thank you!
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