Surrealism from the thirties

The surrealist movement of the 1930s extended from art into design through jewelry and fashion, particularly in the work of Elsa Schiaparelli. Here are two scarves I made from a 1930s silk with a surrealist influenced design. Biomorphism and microscopic images are characteristics of surrealism and these characteristics are apparent in this print that has the appearance of strange blood cells under a microscope. This is one of the earliest fabrics I've found and I've made it into a number of scarves with different backings. This image shows one with a sheer black wool backing and another with a teal blue wool, mirroring the teal in the print.

Fuzzy thought bubbles

I come across some unusual fabrics in my search for interesting materials for The Scarf Moment and I count this print amongst the most unusual. It's a 1940s silk with a design that features what look to me like thought, or speech bubbles that you'd find in a comic strip. There are no characters expressing these thoughts and not even any words in these speech balloons. Just scribbles. A very enigmatic print. I've made some scarves with this fabric using a cashmere backing, and some, like the one shown here, with a sheer wool and silk voile that allows the print to show through the back.

The Scarf Moment Fall/Winter 2013

Welcome to The Scarf Moment, Fall 2013! We've been working all summer, sourcing exquisite vintage fabrics and sewing them up into beautiful scarves. Wonderful fabric acquisitions that you will see in upcoming posts include some truly unique Douglas Ram Samuj hand-printed fabrics from the seventies, 1950s Japanese printed silk, Swiss and Italian wools in stripes and plaids, and a 1930s American silk with a surreal biomorphic print. I look forward to sharing these with you here at The Scarf Moment blog, at our pinterest page: http://pinterest.com/revoile/the-scarf-moment/, at craft shows (to be announced soon) and, in Los Angeles, at Simply Vintageous on Melrose.
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