Christabel silk scarf

Description One of a kind, hand-crafted, long, floaty, 100% silk wrap/scarf, decorated with the marbling technique. Christabel is marbled on both sides in purple and green. Christabel can be worn in so many ways – have a look at this and other listing photos for just a few ideas. Every scarf is unique because only one side can be printed from each application of paint to size, and it is impossible to get identical results twice. Marbling is a traditional process going back centuries. This Christabel wrap/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 give a huge variety of patterns. Christabel has the traditional Turkish Stone pattern on one side and a combed pattern on the other. 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.