A hand-painted scarf made from fine Habotai silk.

Shiny, sheer, + painted with watercolor-esque plaid linework. In the colors: fuchsia, lavender, turquoise, and blue. The silk’s overlapping layers unveil an even richer palette of colors.

About the process: Darla starts by stretching the raw silk flat on a frame. With a fine brush, color is intuitively applied in layers. Once the dye is applied and the material is dry, the scarf is carefully rolled in newsprint to prevent the colors from running. Rolled in this newsprint, the scarf is then hung in a steamer for 3 hours, to set the dye. Finally, it is washed and hung up to dry. The finest of the silk scarves are then hemmed by hand.

5 mm weight, hemmed edges

57” long x 10” wide

Hand wash cold. Air dry. To reduce wrinkling, spritz with a fine-mist spray bottle or hang in a steamy bathroom.

Designed, painted, + finished by Darla