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

[papertiger]

Full weekly 2024 scarf-theme calendar is available here

 

[HermesEchidna]

My SOTD can definitely fit within the STEM theme!
Claudia Stuhlhofer-Maier constructed her design [Tohu Bohu] on the principle of the mandala – a geometric diagram used for meditation and invoking the gods. Its colours and concentric circles symbolize the structure of the universe. This scarf is a mandala for the god, Hermés. (from Hermes story)
Mandalas are also rich in mathematics: they employ circle geometry and other geometric theories and the tools of geometry (protractors and compasses) are used in their design and construction. But @HermesEchidna also challenged us today to think of the "ologists". Hmmm. I put on my thinking cap and made the connection that a mandala is also a game (my kids loved it and it is still in the game cupboard here) and what do we call those who study game theory? Ludologists! Yes, Scarflandia, there is a word: Game studies, also known as ludology is the study of games, the act of playing them, and the players and cultures surrounding them. (wikipedia) So perhaps we also can be called Hermesologists as we expand our knowledge through fun and games as we study our scarves?
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Hermesologists!!! - yes!
And what a wonderful scarf and tribute to ludology!

 

[HermesEchidna]

As a small child I loved to hunt for pretty rocks in the gravel at my local playground. In amongst the bits of granite I would sometimes find some smoky or rose quartz for my small rock collection. Years later we took our children on vacation to the Black Hills of South Dakota. During our visit the rural B&B where we were staying got a new load of gravel put on the driveway, and wow, did it sparkle! Closer investigation revealed rocks with sheets of mica in the gravel. This soft, translucent, shimmery mineral is often used in cosmetics to give a bit of sparkle to your lipstick or face powder. We collected a few nice mica specimens for the kids' rock collections.

I did not go into mineralogy as an adult, but I still love pretty stones. Even today I sometimes find agates along the shores of local lakes. I'm wearing Mineraux today, along with an amethyst pendant, which is a favorite among my quartz jewelry,

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What a gorgeous cw of Minereaux! And how wonderful to live a place where one Can Pick up agates. I am as green as an emerald with envy! 🤩

 

[HermesEchidna]

Oh, such a great colorway! I'm not a big fan of moths, but this ties beautifully.

On the topic of scientifically-focused students, my mother once went on a college date with a guy. Walking across campus, she looked up at the sky, sighed romantically, and said, "isn't it a lovely night?" At which point he stopped walking, said, "oh my gosh - I'm missing my astronomy lecture!" and ran off, leaving her alone on the quad.

Reader, she married him.

In honor of my destined-nerdiness and the science of astronomy, archive shots of Hemispharium Coeli Boreale and Feux du Ciel:

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Thank you for a lovely nerd story - and for sharing equally lovely scarfs!!

 

[Teaforparrots]

Well…let me put on my other hat….the one that can talk people into spending money .
You can’t do the mostly red one? A dark cw of the bunch. It does have small amount of light blue ( which to my memory you don’t like on you??)

I tried that one - I was sure it would work for me based on the online photo but not really!

 

[HermesEchidna]

A so so short post. As You all say…finally! 🤣. It would be much shorter without the science tie to theme .

Appaloosa. A go-to of mine. A horse scarf ( like this gorgeous breed) will sometimes remind me of humans involvement in the reproduction of horse breeds, and our need and business practice to carry a horse’s pedigree through its progeny.
A veterinary reproductive specialist, is also called a theriogenologist ( thanks internet)
I am blinded by blazing sunlight off all the ice and snow
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Apalloosa is stunning! And that is a very soft and lovely cw!
And I Can reveal that breeding will also be mentioned later in the week - again one of you clever people is a first mover!!

 

[Redbirdhermes]

Here is my nerdy guy dating story. Freshman year at college my future DH and I would often head over to the college library to play Star Trek. (Star Wars did not yet exist.). Our campus had exactly one computer, a 4K machine that took up a lot of space in the basement of the science building, and it’s use was strictly monitored. But the library had a teletype machine with a dedicated phone line linking it to the computer at the Big University in the next town. It looked like this.



Your Enterprise had thrusters, photon torpedoes, shields, and a few sensors that could detect the distance, speed and direction of the attacking Klingon war ship, which was played by the University computer. You took turns firing, trying to blow up the other ship. It really helped to have graph paper and to be able to do quick math calcs to better guess the next location of your target. The teletype would print out the results of each move on paper. It took quite a bit of time for each move compared to modern computer games.

Hermès Galaxy reminds me of those early computer games.



I wore Hermes Galaxy today over my Mineraux because it is still very cold outside.

 

[HermesEchidna]

Here is my nerdy guy dating story. Freshman year at college my future DH and I would often head over to the college library to play Star Trek. (Star Wars did not yet exist.). Our campus had exactly one computer, a 4K machine that took up a lot of space in the basement of the science building, and it’s use was strictly monitored. But the library had a teletype machine with a dedicated phone line linking it to the computer at the Big University in the next town. It looked like this.

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Your Enterprise had thrusters, photon torpedoes, shields, and a few sensors that could detect the distance, speed and direction of the attacking Klingon war ship, which was played by the University computer. You took turns firing, trying to blow up the other ship. It really helped to have graph paper and to be able to do quick math calcs to better guess the next location of your target. The teletype would print out the results of each move on paper. It took quite a bit of time for each move compared to modern computer games.

Hermès Galaxy reminds me of those early computer games.

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I wore Hermes Galaxy today over my Mineraux because it is still very cold outside.

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Thank you for sharing nerd love story and tempting scarf photos 😊 - cant believe how fast the digital have developed. My first pc had a casette tape drive!!

 

[Snausages]

Going with radiology today!

Monsieur et Madame in 2 formats


And our good friend Mr Skeleton in C’est La Fete

 

[violetkool]

Scarf mail from me today. I had a great review with my manager this morning - I'm only three months into the job so was really pleased with that. Then had an intense strategy meeting for the rest of the day. So I decided I should make an ad hoc trip to Hermès as a reward!

Fortunately my lovely SA was working, so we had a catch up and I came away with a new 90 - Splash Park in the blanc/mauve/multicolore colourway. This design is the epitome of fun, and there's another cute sea creature everywhere you look. I love it!

Photos taken in very poor indoor lighting.

 

[HermesEchidna]

Scarf mail from me today. I had a great review with my manager this morning - I'm only three months into the job so was really pleased with that. Then had an intense strategy meeting for the rest of the day. So I decided I should make an ad hoc trip to Hermès as a reward!

Fortunately my lovely SA was working, so we had a catch up and I came away with a new 90 - Splash Park in the blanc/mauve/multicolore colourway. This design is the epitome of fun, and there's another cute sea creature everywhere you look. I love it!

Photos taken in very poor indoor lighting.

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Congratulations on both the work stuff and the brilliant scarf!

 

[LaurenHermesLover]

Today I wore a twilly depicting Scarf Odyssey. The space ship/space station motif definitely fits the STEM theme. A journey to space is a great step for mankind!

 

[Maedi]

today with Patchwork Horse

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I adore ALL your jackets but this ivory/ pink one is incredible. Perfect with your shawl.

 

[Living.la.vida.fifi]

Such lovely examples @Living. I'm especially enthralled with your Bonnes Vibrations and the idea of the Chladni figures. I immediately fell down the Google rabbit hole researching - so fascinating! Thank you for sharing that wonderful scarf.

Perfect examples @Forever Orange. Happy to be your Planifleurs sisters! It was my SOTD, I'll share a picture a little later.


Another great post @HermesEchidna. This scar mistress thing - you're a natural! Happy to be your Les Folies du Ciel twin. You have my favorite colorway of Tous le bateaux du monde -


Fabulous @xincinsin!

Oh wow, your Jardin de Leila au Bloc is lovely @LKBNOLA, and it looks fabulous with your blazer!

Fabulous @Cookiefiend, and I love it on the striped top. Such a great combo!


I empathize @Teaforparrots, I've had a cold since last Friday. I hope you feel better soon! I love this scarf and someday I'll own one. I am an old school pencil user, (no mechanical pencils for me!) I rarely ever use a pen.

As others have said…a stunner with the blazer. Scarf is so beautiful!

An amazing bold cw! Showing the strength of NO to fight back against the damage from Katrina

Oooo these colors are chefs kiss on you. WOW!

Mind blown. Thank you!

As others have said..brilliant on the striped top! Inspiring. This is one of the many reasons why I love this thread. Get so inspired

It TOTALLY works! Gorg

Hope you feel better soon. It’s tough out there this winter. So many sick. And you are so clever!

No more late night indeed haha. And beautiful scarves

Love the entire look! Perfection! I realized something on my last boutique trip. I can NOT follow in some of your amazing colors. I wlll have to just be smitten seeing these looks on you . But so glad I can steal some colors from your wheelhouse

Ooooo I love this! Great choice!

Stunner alert stunner alert! I stopped in tracks when scrolling. Congratulations on this beauty

So happy to be twins in several. Your azulejos look is a knock out!! That top is totally your color w pulling your hair highlights. Beautiful

This was another one that stopped me in my tracks. These colors are stunning on you!! As Jereni said these jewel tones are perfection on you.

Yes! It is totally neat the ring continues the design. So cool! And great idea to pull those colors w your tops. Inspiring

Ummm how did you do the colors??

Brilliant. Thanks for the help w theme and to Wikipedia . I ditto all your thoughts on travel with this one and other map scarves

Spectacular post!! Wow. Just wow. I can’t even comment because I don’t know where to begin with all I love about it.,

Love these happy colors.

Beautiful coloration on this lovely soft cw @Nomad!

I hope that you will soon be feeling as marvelous as you look @Cookiefiend!

Feel better soon @Teaforparrots-- this is a wonderful design and color!

A great story and great choice of silks to illustrate it @mktlim!

Its beautiful on you @Jereni!

Yes and what a marvelous cw you chose @Agrume! It looks wonderful on you-- I hope you are enjoying it!

Stunning Petit Duc @Awillow!

A great array of connections to the theme-- I particularly love your blue Flanerie a Versailles @Living.la.vida.fifi!

Well that is a piece of silk folding magic for sure @labelo! I don't think you could possibly have planned it! Looks great, too.

I think this scarf can do no wrong @MabelJo-- I chose it for the exact same reasons you did. When we were children my mother always sought out gardens on our travels-- at the time we sometimes complained but for all of us the habit took hold on our own travels, as for you...

This is such a delicious cw for this charmer @Croisette7!







Thank you @Croisette7, @bunnycat, @Living.la.vida.fifi, @Jereni, @Maedi and @Mebeljo (and @Nomad-- lost your quote) for your very kind compliments on Jardin de Leila au Bloc! And @textilegirl -- I do in fact have three LE designs which each have particular meaning to the places I live: Battery Park (I lived and worked in NYC for 40+ years); New Orleans Creole Jazz for a city I have a long family connection to and spend winters there, and Salt Marsh, as we live on a salt marsh on Cape Cod Bay! They are special indeed to me. Thank you for the comment.

Thanks, all, so much!

 

[Living.la.vida.fifi]

Hi, scarf friends! I am wearing La Promenade de Platon today. Plato contributed to many key mathematical hypotheses.


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Adore this design and this is a wonderful CW

Cartography is the study and practice of making and using maps. Cartography combines science, aesthetics, and technique to build on the premise that reality (or an imagined reality) can be modeled in ways that communicate spatial information effectively. (Thanks Wikipedia).

My scarf of the day is Planifleurs. I particularly love this scarf because it reminds me of wonderful trips I've taken both in the US and abroad. When I travel for work or with DH, I almost always plan trips around gardens to visit, even in the winter. I think Christine Henry did a great job charting her planisphere and bringing her aesthetic to this fabulous map!

I didn't do this lovely scarf any favors today with my choice of top, but my first Zoom call was at 6am, so I was proud of myself for getting up and getting dressed. Now that I think about it, I can tie this scarf in to my early call today since I spoke with colleagues from Japan, India, Ireland, and the US!

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Such an amazing CW! I saw it IRL at the store and was mesmerized by all the subtle tonalities

Today I want to celebrate -ologies ; the Scientific fields, the arenas of Beautiful Nerds who dig themselves into one single subject and only rarely come up for air.

We do know the Big sciences Biology, Geography, Geology, chemistry, physics etc and they certainly have scarf designs to remind us of them (I am still looking for the perfect Mineraux and Geologie), and the field opens even more up with alchemy, astronomy, ecology, entomology, meterology, not to forget oceanography, hippology and mixology! Earlier this week @EtsyBoss gave us a Grand tour of scarf primatology and many others of you lovely people have also shared botany and zoology already.

I will just begin the parade today with mineralogy in La Vallee Cristal (cryptozoology represented by the unicorn)

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and volcanology from Nothing but a Dreamer (the scarf that does for this theme what Animapolis does for every other theme)

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and the human with it’s head in a cloud from Sur mon Nuage - certainly a nephologist! And it happens in a cloud shaped like a sea shell - this calls for a conchologist!
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And we could all be considered ornithologists just by looking at birds on scarves!!

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So please bring out your periodic systems, your constallations, your world maps and your cloud maps. And find the scientists, the spectators, the experts, the collectors and the recorders of details looking up to the sky, into the microscope and under the surface to study and describe it all.


I wish you a most nerdy day!

Great post! And, what a way to expand the topic to myriad possibilities!

La Maison Oiseaux Parleurs

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One of the most beautiful white based scarves ever produced by H

For today’s theme offering I’m going with Carnival des Animaux… hear me out.

The story behind the scarf is that its inspired by Camille Saint-Saens’ musical score, but I can’t look at it without thinking of The Lion King and the iconic Circle of Life opening sequence.

Scarf:
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Lion King:
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A movie is of course typically more of an example of art than science, but The Lion King was a technical achievement as well, using computers to support the animation in ways that previously had not been employed before. STEM skills were certainly involved in creating the masterful stampede scene. Apparently a few distinct wildebeasts were designed using a 3D program, and then multiplied into hundreds, manipulated to look like animation using cel shading, and sent down the mountain using randomized paths. All in all the 2.5 minute sequence took two years to create!
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Carnival des Animaux today:
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And our own baby lion, who we often hold up and sing Circle of Life to (much to her chagrin):
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Aha! Well, this works! Looks amazing on you and your baby resembles our Ponki a lot… except we call him our “tiger”

Thanks for the sweet comments. I will catch up later. In the meantime, sticking with the same theme, I am headed off to the office in Petit Duc.View attachment 5931630

You looks amazing! Positively elegant

My SOTD can definitely fit within the STEM theme!
Claudia Stuhlhofer-Maier constructed her design [Tohu Bohu] on the principle of the mandala – a geometric diagram used for meditation and invoking the gods. Its colours and concentric circles symbolize the structure of the universe. This scarf is a mandala for the god, Hermés. (from Hermes story)
Mandalas are also rich in mathematics: they employ circle geometry and other geometric theories and the tools of geometry (protractors and compasses) are used in their design and construction. But @HermesEchidna also challenged us today to think of the "ologists". Hmmm. I put on my thinking cap and made the connection that a mandala is also a game (my kids loved it and it is still in the game cupboard here) and what do we call those who study game theory? Ludologists! Yes, Scarflandia, there is a word: Game studies, also known as ludology is the study of games, the act of playing them, and the players and cultures surrounding them. (wikipedia) So perhaps we also can be called Hermesologists as we expand our knowledge through fun and games as we study our scarves?
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What a great post! Love the way you expanded on the theme here!

As a small child I loved to hunt for pretty rocks in the gravel at my local playground. In amongst the bits of granite I would sometimes find some smoky or rose quartz for my small rock collection. Years later we took our children on vacation to the Black Hills of South Dakota. During our visit the rural B&B where we were staying got a new load of gravel put on the driveway, and wow, did it sparkle! Closer investigation revealed rocks with sheets of mica in the gravel. This soft, translucent, shimmery mineral is often used in cosmetics to give a bit of sparkle to your lipstick or face powder. We collected a few nice mica specimens for the kids' rock collections.

I did not go into mineralogy as an adult, but I still love pretty stones. Even today I sometimes find agates along the shores of local lakes. I'm wearing Mineraux today, along with an amethyst pendant, which is a favorite among my quartz jewelry,

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Great post! Perfect one for the week and such a lovely pendant with it!

today with Patchwork Horse

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Patchwork Horse never fails! Such a great CW

Oh, such a great colorway! I'm not a big fan of moths, but this ties beautifully.

On the topic of scientifically-focused students, my mother once went on a college date with a guy. Walking across campus, she looked up at the sky, sighed romantically, and said, "isn't it a lovely night?" At which point he stopped walking, said, "oh my gosh - I'm missing my astronomy lecture!" and ran off, leaving her alone on the quad.

Reader, she married him.

In honor of my destined-nerdiness and the science of astronomy, archive shots of Hemispharium Coeli Boreale and Feux du Ciel:

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Great story and great silks!

A so so short post. As You all say…finally! 🤣. It would be much shorter without the science tie to theme .

Appaloosa. A go-to of mine. A horse scarf ( like this gorgeous breed) will sometimes remind me of humans involvement in the reproduction of horse breeds, and our need and business practice to carry a horse’s pedigree through its progeny.
A veterinary reproductive specialist, is also called a theriogenologist ( thanks internet)
I am blinded by blazing sunlight off all the ice and snow
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Love this design and this is a glorious CW

Thank you, Fifi, Jereni, Nomad and LKBNOLA for your kind words (hope I did not miss anyone)!

SOTD was Versailles, with its geometric figures, as already shown by others. Have a good evening!

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I’ve always admired this CW

Here is my nerdy guy dating story. Freshman year at college my future DH and I would often head over to the college library to play Star Trek. (Star Wars did not yet exist.). Our campus had exactly one computer, a 4K machine that took up a lot of space in the basement of the science building, and it’s use was strictly monitored. But the library had a teletype machine with a dedicated phone line linking it to the computer at the Big University in the next town. It looked like this.

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Your Enterprise had thrusters, photon torpedoes, shields, and a few sensors that could detect the distance, speed and direction of the attacking Klingon war ship, which was played by the University computer. You took turns firing, trying to blow up the other ship. It really helped to have graph paper and to be able to do quick math calcs to better guess the next location of your target. The teletype would print out the results of each move on paper. It took quite a bit of time for each move compared to modern computer games.

Hermès Galaxy reminds me of those early computer games.

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I wore Hermes Galaxy today over my Mineraux because it is still very cold outside.

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Haha! That is a great story and a wonderful design!

Going with radiology today!

Monsieur et Madame in 2 formats
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And our good friend Mr Skeleton in C’est La Fete
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Ha! Good one! Love them all but especially the Monsieur et Madame CSGM… I own the same CW in the 90

Today I wore a twilly depicting Scarf Odyssey. The space ship/space station motif definitely fits the STEM theme. A journey to space is a great step for mankind!

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Great twilly… You look amazing!

 

[Living.la.vida.fifi]

Starting off today with Tous les Bateaux du Monde



And, another transportation related design: Les Becanes



The imaginary cartography of Planisphere d’un Monde Equestre



And another map, but an astronomical one: La Voie Lactee


The universe of Paridaiza is geometrically organized and centered by a labyrinth



And, now for my actual SOTD… We had cooler temps this morning so I wore my L’Arbre du Vent CSGM to a doctor’s appointment


I am swept away by a Monet Lugo scarf tide since I got her Jaguar et Colibri shawl last week… It was a “panic before the price hike” purchase, but it is amazing… Still wish to compare it with the orange CW, though, which is on its way to me