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For inspiration, the weekly 2025 Scarf Theme Calendar is available here
For inspiration, the weekly 2025 Scarf Theme Calendar is available here
Scarves Scarf of The Day 2025 - Which Hermès scarf are you wearing today?
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Yes, of course. It's by Antoine de Jacquelot who also designed L'intrus, Les merises and Chèvrefeuilles, among many others. It dates from 1990. I have shown some details of it earlier.
Gosh I love these tonal blues together! You are a seascape vision. I had no idea this design had all these animals in the border!
My SOYE was Mythes et Metamorphoses by Annie Faivre. I saw @Cookiefiend model hers some years ago and fell in love with the design. This one popped up not long after and not having any maroon in my collection I thought I'd try it out. I found the little monkey in it and it's one of hers that is particularly full and well developed, and quite colorful! I don't get the impression she's based her "little monkey" on a specific species but rather a more generic / prototype monkey.
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Rhesus macaque comes to mind, the favored species for lab studies, and thus one that is not ever likely to become an endangered species. However, among primates, so many are endangered. Current consensus has about 60% of monkeys and 100% of non-human apes as endangered, with many of them critically endangered, the highest level of conservation concern and most severely at risk of extinction.
There are a few other critters on this scarf. I found one I hadn't noticed before - a koala - an endangered species in Australia as of 2022.
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Attempts to use a new scarf ring went so-so and I ended up switching to a different use case because my first tie didn't stay snug with the ring up by my shoulder. If any of you know where I could find a how to on the first one, I'd love that. I'm not sure what step I missed to not fully secure it. Perhaps if I had a parrot to hold it on my shoulder I'd be all set
A simply stunning cw of this! Decadent in the best possible way, the rich Bordeaux color is sumptuous. Hope LKB’s knot tips will help you!
Such a special colorway! And thank you SO so much for sharing this last knot! This is absolutely perfect for days when I feel like minimizing the white border.
Looks great on you, congrats! I’m glad it came back from the cleaners in tip top shape!
Oohhhhhh. This CORAL. Dang that’s exquisite! Really pops against the coat.
That Salt Marsh art style is a really unique one! Wonderfully relaxed, if that makes sense.
But, I just loooooove that Dragonflies piece. I’m not normally drawn to pale pinks but I might need this.
Lovely post - your Farendole almost looks 3D!
Beautiful LI too - that blue is so pretty!
hrmmm - the wasp, ladybug with 2 spots, and mantis are from Les Insectes... the running amok bees from Ojects de Curiosities (I know I have spelled that wrong!)?
Lovely in coral/pink? and a matching CdC! gorgeous!
beautiful turquoise!
Two more beauties!
lovely lavender!
ooooo a pink Dragonflies - love!
So fresh and springy - my favorite is the Dandelion!
(and the bird of course!)
Thank you so much sweetheart! The border of this design is truly amazing!
hahah - Darling pin CRoisette!
Thank you, CedarWaxWing!
Love esp. your Dragonflies!
Many thanks, LKB!
For you, Cookie, a silk scarf with only dandelions, but no H.🫣
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The birds are so realistic ... the foliage border is pretty!
Thank you, darkstar!
Thank you for this wonderful introduction, dear HE. One of the main reasons why I love our treasured scarves is the abundance of floral and fauna found in many designs, especially, as you point out, those of Kermit Oliver, Robert Dallet and Alice Shirley. Dipping my toes in as personal commitments have kept me offline.Good morning!
Thank you @Cookiefiend for leading us through a rainbow tinted week! And to all of you who shared, commented on and reacted on our shared colorful passion.
I have yet to put on my sotd which will be a crossover but am now introducing
Critters: find the small animals roaming our scarves
I am happy and honored to be hosting this week with a theme that was one of the reasons I became addicted to H scarves: the biodiversity!
We all know and love the horses and the Big cats, even a Giant turkey, a t-rex and an Elephant now and then, but as in Nature it is not always the megafauna which plays the most significant role in the ecosystem.
So I dedicate this week to the smaller creatures - the multitudes of little critters roaming our scarves - sometime as the main feature, sometimes hidden in the design. Let us go on a scarf safari - not with guns, but with magnifying glasses and keen eyes!
I have thought a bit about subthemes for this, and during the week I will each day invite you to look for new categories of tiny Life: for rare and even extint animals, for insects and other invertebrates, for cute little furry friends, for those hiding and those escaping from the designs.
But for todays intro I will just mention the Giant elephants in the room - the three designers who probably have put more biodiversity into H scarves than any others and have distinct naturalistic styles: Robert Dallet, Kermit Oliver and Alice Shirley. They have all created designs which almost encyclopidecal (dont know if that is used or spelled correct) records the wildlife of a specific place or country. From the precious Life of the mediterranean and to the Canadian or Texan Wildlife, from the four seasons to wild Singapore and great plaines and from Equateur to the English countryside. In many of these great scarves there are large iconic species, but they also have so many small, even humble, species which adds to the life-like Nature and the completeness of the designs. I find myself looking at these scarves and Think : I like it all, but that they put that animal in there is a testament to both knowledge, artistry and sometimes even humour.
Flores et Faune du Texas
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Into the Canadian Wild
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Jungle Love
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La vie precieuse de la mediterrannee
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So go and have a look at your scarves by these Big Three and find the tiny creatures, and let us admire the smallest things in the biggest sceneries.
( and no. I did not mention Animapolis - but I will. It is almost a category of its own. Racoon says aye!)
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Disclaimer : I am travelling this week with a small set of scarves so most pictures will be from the dusty archive.
But: all my travelling companions are narturalists, among them a zoologist specializing in mammals, so if you have an unknown critter on you scarf, now is the time to get it specified! - just post a picture!!!
For example I will get these two kinds of monkeys identified asap
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Updated in edit: they are Nepal gray langur - Semnopithecus schistaceus (left) and Northern plains gray langur - previous known as hanuman langur - Semnnopithecus entellus (right)
Wish you a all a day full of life!!
Jungle Love by Dallet - so many creatures grace these “lovecats”.
Likewise, Equateur
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You seem to be a De Jacquelot lover as well, Croisette7, first Joyaux de l'été, then La Prairie...😊
Here are some of the insects surrounding the Axis Mundi.
Axis Mundi is my scarf of the day.
Axis Mundi is my scarf of the day.
oh I love it!! Thank you!
<le sigh> beautiful Karenska!
And it's so nice to *see* you!
Beeeyouteeful blues!
I could knot be more charmed and amused by a scarf than I am with Emile et Une Nuit.
Seriously - I love it so much.
This bug wearing a fab hat and carrying a flag
A card house building Butterfly and a dragonfly with sugar tongs
Drummer bug wearing glasses
And a monkey? But on closer inspection think it might be a rat? At any rate - monkey or rat - he’s got a cupcake that looks amazing!
Seriously - I love it so much.
This bug wearing a fab hat and carrying a flag
A card house building Butterfly and a dragonfly with sugar tongs
Drummer bug wearing glasses
And a monkey? But on closer inspection think it might be a rat? At any rate - monkey or rat - he’s got a cupcake that looks amazing!