Long silk scarf – silk hair scarf – hand dyed silk scarf – silk scarf women – beautiful silk scarf

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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!

Zara is 135 x 33 cm.

All Marbled Beauty scarves are delivered gift boxed and wrapped in tissue paper.

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.

Zara is 150 x 40 cm.

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.

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I’ve always had the urge to create. I think it’s in the blood as my mum used to do a lot of dressmaking and some embroidery, we both paint; one of my great aunts also embroidered and painted. I remember learning basic sewing at around five with some off-cuts of a green trouser suit mum had made me and some red thread. I can still picture the results and I’ve been fascinated with textile colours and textures ever since. I’ve also always had an interest in crafting, the history of crafts and how things are made. While my brother was fascinated by modern technology, I was harking back to ‘the olden days’. I’ve tried all sorts of arts and crafts over the years, including crochet, various types of embroidery, felting and botanical painting. I have a City and Guilds Level 3 in Design and Craft with a specialisation in embroidery. While I still love to paint I don’t do so much crochet, felting or embroidery now because at the age of 39 I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis – an autoimmune disease where your immune system attacks your joints– and although I don’t have it badly, those crafts were putting a lot of strain on my hands.

Although I’d done some marbling as a kid, it was actually during an arthritis flare, when I wasn’t able to do much of anything and was surfing the net, that I stumbled across a video on marbling … and that was that really!

I love the fact that every piece is unique – it’s actually impossible to do the same thing twice, although if you’re super-organised it’s possible to come close. (I’m not super organised!) I also find the process very therapeutic. I’m also a big fan of the ‘slow fashion movement’ – it can mean several things but fundamentally it’s anti-fast-fashion and throw-away fashion, and pro carefully created pieces that you can treasure and wear again and again. These scarves are created with love and care, and they can be worn so many ways, and with so many outfits. They can totally change the look of the outfit too, so they’re really a slow fashion win.

I love to play with colour and silk and create something beautiful; Marbled Beauty gives me a chance to share that beauty with the world.

Returns Policy

I accept returns. If there is a fault with your product I will pay the postage. If you just decide you would prefer to return it, I will ask you to pay for tracked postage, so that you can be sure it will get back to me. I will then refund the cost of the product in full.

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