Today I dropped off three of the new silk scarf designs to be framed. One of them, the winner of the inaugural scarf competition, will go into the Studio. I might even have a little plaque made, I am undecided. The winner, Kieran Davis, designed a scarf we ended up naming ‘Australia, where everything wants to kill you’ and it’s close to being sold out already. I was surprised about that to be honest.
One went to Kieran, one to the Studio, only one remains now. I love them as wall art, in my own home I have one from my own company, one I particularly love from Hermes because it ties in with my blue kitchen beautifully. I think over time I am going to add more and make my own home more about silk art than anything. I have, for example, two walls which feature woven silk art from Lake Como, gifted to me by one of the most famed weaving families in Italian history. It was such a lovely gift and it came after Covid when we had worked together steadily through that period to produce some of the most ambitious woven jacquards that we ever did including our Botticelli reference and our Australian Alpine Flora silk. Both featured gold lurex woven into the design.
A silk scarf if a most excellent piece of wall art, impressive in size but not too overpowering so its easy to find a wall in your house where it can reside. And silk is such a lovely thing to look at whether draped around the neck, as a top, as a head scarf, and on the wall it is no different.
It is also a reasonably inexpensive way to get art onto your walls, certainly a lot cheaper than my taste in oil on canvas.
So, if you need any help regarding having it framed, I am here to help and I am happy to direct you where possible. Personally, I have it done on a white timber frame, recessed, the hand-roll stitch exposed, a small border on the perimeter, recessed behind glass. But you do you, there are so many choices to be had.
