Zara silk scarf

Description One of a kind, hand-crafted, long, floaty, 100% silk scarf, decorated with the marbling technique. Zara is marbled on both sides, with one side predominantly blue, with red in the centre and bright yellow at each end, while the other is mostly blue and red with a lot of white areas allowing the colours from the other side to gleam through. Zara can be worn in so many ways, and can look zingy and zesty or much more muted, depending on which side is predominant. Zara is just as happy brightening up a business suit or little black dress, or floating around a summer dress at a wedding, on the beach … the options are limitless! Marbling is a traditional process going back centuries. This Zara scarf has been created in the Western tradition, frequently used in the past to create beautiful endpapers in high-end books. First of all the silk is soaked in a mordant which helps to fix the paints or dyes, and thoroughly dried. Then a pattern is created by floating the paints onto a viscous liquid called ‘size’ in a scarf-sized marbling bath. The paints will maintain their true colours rather than mixing with each other, but they can be raked, combed and swirled to create a huge variety of different patterns. Zara is decorated in a pattern traditionally called nonpareil. When one side is marbled, the scarf is dried, mordanted again, dried again and then marbled on the other side. While every attempt has been made to represent colours correctly, they will vary from screen to screen. However, if you are unhappy with the colour I accept returns, provided you use tracked postage. All marbled beauty scarves as washable at low temperatures and can be tumble dried on a low setting although we recommend hand washing in warm water and drip drying. Iron with a two spot (UK) iron.