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Wow, is that a bright colorway!! (blink blink) I'll leave that one for someone else: it'd wash me right out.
Meanwhile, while this isn't exactly a grail scarf, it might make some of you chuckle.
My husband (aka He Who Sneaks Up On Me With Scarves) is a terrible notebook geek. The place is coming down with his notebooks, many of them Moleskines. He got me one some while back -- a little "reporter's notebook" with graph paper inside (that's my preferred note paper), and has been bugging me to get more use out of it.
I took it out with me a couple of weeks ago to do some writing work in a cafe. I had to leave in a hurry due to one thing and another, and in the rush the notebook got left behind. The staff at the cafe looked around for it, couldn't find it... partly, they said, because it had a black cover like every other notebook that they took their food orders in. However, after some days it turned up, and I got it back yesterday. I came home thinking that I had to do something to it to make sure that it would never again be confused with anybody else's notebook.
Therefore, fellow Hermes fans, I give you... The Hermes Moleskine. (In the background: "Trophees de Venise" in eggplant, cream, gold and the occasional touch of the signature orange.)
The cover was made from a Hermes bag that I brought home from the Dublin in-store boutique a few weeks ago after picking up a bottle of "Un Jardin sur le Nil". I cut the bag apart, made a rough template by tracing the notebook, and then got to work with an X-acto knife and the local version of mucilage (it's called Gloy Gum). Rubber cement would have been best, but we were out of it.
Here's the back. I had to cut an opening for the little elastic band that Moleskines have to hold themselves closed. To keep the the original cover from showing through, I glued in a strip of 2005-vintage Hermes ribbon before putting the cover on.
Here's the inside front cover. The ribbon there is to hide a place where I ran out of pieces of the bag to hide the original insides.
Here's the inside back cover, with its little pouch to hold notes, stickers, etc.
And here's how the inside looks. I glued in a strip of ribbon between the last two pages to serve as a bookmark.
So that was fun!
But this will eventually get kind of beat up, no matter how carefully I treat it: it's just paper. I'm really starting to wish that Hermes would do Moleskines in one of their nice leathers...
--DD
That's a fun project! I think I'm going to cover DH's wallet with orange so he won't keep misplacing it (at home, fortunately). Or else maybe he just needs a new wallet...one that comes in an orange box. 
I keep peeking behind the notebook to look at the scarf! Eggplant is growing on me; I realize I wear a lot of it and need a scarf to match.
I keep peeking behind the notebook to look at the scarf! Eggplant is growing on me; I realize I wear a lot of it and need a scarf to match.
I have a picture of the scarf here: the colors and detail aren't as good as the closeups, alas... (Click on it and it links back to the Flickr page: if you hit the "all sizes" link at the top of the image, it'll show you a much bigger version.)
But it's very much a favorite. Not quite a Grail, maybe: but presently the only scarf that I have two of. (The other one is in silver, blue and celadon: goes brilliantly with jeans.)
--DD
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I have a picture of the scarf here: the colors and detail aren't as good as the closeups, alas... (Click on it and it links back to the Flickr page: if you hit the "all sizes" link at the top of the image, it'll show you a much bigger version.)
Flickr won't let me view it, unfortunately, but even at this size I'm amazed at the level of detail in this scarf. My first scarf was Les Bissone de Venise, and I love Venice anyway, so maybe I should continue with that theme....hmmm. I don't mean to covet your whole collection, but you do have excellent taste!
Thanks! Officially I try to collect scarves that have to do with astronomy or time. But every now and then I indulge some other theme that I like, such as cute bugs (Coccinelles), predators (Tigre Royale), the Net (www.hermes.com), or big fish with goofy expressions (Grands Fonds II). ...Gotta get caught up on the photography, though. There are a few scarves upstairs that don't have pictures in the set as yet.
--DD
They actually do make a notebook very similar in shape to the one you covered, it's called the "Italian notebook cover" and retails for $285 US. I believe the one I looked at was in epsom, we saw black, gold, and red. It's very nice, and it's refillable!
Wow, thanks for that! Now I have an excuse to drag him into the store the next time we pass that way --- he'll have an "unhacked" notebook that we can test for size. And while we're there I can point him at the ties.
(He has a longtime resistance to ties because he had to wear them at school and work. But now it's beginning to slip, since for a writer, ties are strictly elective.) Thanks again!
--DD
Take more and post them! Then I will have more scarves to look for (like I needed more!). (I did want the black Pavement before you posted yours, but your picture just intensified my desire.)
I thought I'd add here pictures of the same scarf in the "grey" colorway(actually more like white/grey/black/celadon/blue). The detail really is fabulous: this is one of the scarves that when studied closely just leaves you in awe of the Hermes screenprinting technique.
It's funny, though; this is one of the sadder Hermes scarves, in that everything on it is an image of the booty that the Crusaders brought home from sacking another Christian city, Constantinople. (As usual, greed and politics were involved: the Pope yelled at the Crusaders about the destruction of the city only until it was made plain what his cut of the treasure was going to be.) The horses are the horses of the ancient Hippodrome in Constantinople: they now adorn St. Mark's in Venice. (You can see the main domes of San Marco in the upper right corner of the panel above.)
The signature corner, with replicas of the mosaics and tilework of St. Mark's (much of it brought from Constantinople).
The "colophon" panel, and more tilework.
More tile, the horses again, the stars of the St. Mark's ceiling, and a few gondola prows.
--DD
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dduane, those pictures are fabulous! I think this will make it on my grail list sooner or later...I'm trying to concentrate on Pavements for now, which ought to slow down my purchasing a bit.
I guess that is one of the things I find charming about this scarf in a twisted sort of way--everything good about Venice was stolen from somewhere else! (Even the relics of St. Mark were snuck out of Alexandria.) That works out for me, because it's easier for me to visit Venice than Istanbul--though I hope to get to Istanbul someday--but it's an unpleasant chapter in church history. But I love how so many Hermes designs tie into history--which helps me justify scarf purchases, because DH and I are both history nerds.
I guess that is one of the things I find charming about this scarf in a twisted sort of way--everything good about Venice was stolen from somewhere else! (Even the relics of St. Mark were snuck out of Alexandria.) That works out for me, because it's easier for me to visit Venice than Istanbul--though I hope to get to Istanbul someday--but it's an unpleasant chapter in church history. But I love how so many Hermes designs tie into history--which helps me justify scarf purchases, because DH and I are both history nerds.
Wow, is that a bright colorway!! (blink blink) I'll leave that one for someone else: it'd wash me right out.
Meanwhile, while this isn't exactly a grail scarf, it might make some of you chuckle.
My husband (aka He Who Sneaks Up On Me With Scarves) is a terrible notebook geek. The place is coming down with his notebooks, many of them Moleskines. He got me one some while back -- a little "reporter's notebook" with graph paper inside (that's my preferred note paper), and has been bugging me to get more use out of it.
I took it out with me a couple of weeks ago to do some writing work in a cafe. I had to leave in a hurry due to one thing and another, and in the rush the notebook got left behind. The staff at the cafe looked around for it, couldn't find it... partly, they said, because it had a black cover like every other notebook that they took their food orders in. However, after some days it turned up, and I got it back yesterday. I came home thinking that I had to do something to it to make sure that it would never again be confused with anybody else's notebook.
Therefore, fellow Hermes fans, I give you... The Hermes Moleskine. (In the background: "Trophees de Venise" in eggplant, cream, gold and the occasional touch of the signature orange.)
The cover was made from a Hermes bag that I brought home from the Dublin in-store boutique a few weeks ago after picking up a bottle of "Un Jardin sur le Nil". I cut the bag apart, made a rough template by tracing the notebook, and then got to work with an X-acto knife and the local version of mucilage (it's called Gloy Gum). Rubber cement would have been best, but we were out of it.
Here's the back. I had to cut an opening for the little elastic band that Moleskines have to hold themselves closed. To keep the the original cover from showing through, I glued in a strip of 2005-vintage Hermes ribbon before putting the cover on.
Here's the inside front cover. The ribbon there is to hide a place where I ran out of pieces of the bag to hide the original insides.
Here's the inside back cover, with its little pouch to hold notes, stickers, etc.
And here's how the inside looks. I glued in a strip of ribbon between the last two pages to serve as a bookmark.
So that was fun!
But this will eventually get kind of beat up, no matter how carefully I treat it: it's just paper. I'm really starting to wish that Hermes would do Moleskines in one of their nice leathers...
--DD
Wow, DD, aren't you clever? That is really great looking, what a great idea!
When I first started reading your post I thought you were going to say that you covered the notebook with the scarf and I nearly had a heart attack!!