Luxurious Crepe de Chine  10  silk  scarf/shawl,  created wholly with sustainable natural fibres, local plants and natural dyes. In this case, the shawl was printed by steaming, with virginia creeper, sumac and  leaves, and a dye cocktail of oak gall tannin, madder with a dash of cochineal. [SC251].
 
Fabulously versatile and elegant, you can wear this wonderfully soft scarf/shawl in a variety of ways.. during the day with casual clothes, or as a shawl in the evening for that special night out. 
 
In creating this scarf/shawl, the  luxurious Crepe de Chine silk was soaked in  alum solution, to accentuate the pigments' vibrance, and then dyed with the cocktail of dyes and tannin. After placing the leaves, the  dyed shawl was bundled up tightly round a copper pipe with a carrier blanket soaked in strong iron solution, which darkened the background.   
 
It was then steamed in my trusty aluminium fish kettle for 70 minutes to release and fix the leaf pigments and dyes. The prints and background are  light- and wash-fast.  
 
Due to the individual nature of the hand crafted process by which these unique scarves are made, the precise details of the scarf design and colour tone may vary slightly from this photograph.
 
Approx 185cm x 45cm.
 
Packaged in an elegant, ecofriendly By Maggie Naturally presentation box.