Floating Thread Scarf

Enjoy effortless style and infinite looks by wearing this ethereal Floating Thread Scarf around your neck or over your shoulders. As soft and airy as an ocean breeze, the shape can be altered with the merest fluff. Even the color of this Floating Thread Scarf subtly morphs from blue to turquoise as the gossamer hand-woven threads capture the light. 100% silk. Imported.  75"l. x 20"w.

Museum Provenance

This Floating Threads Scarf is inspired by a design in the vast collections of the Cooper-Hewitt. The Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration was founded by the three Hewitt sisters and opened on May 26, 1897. The granddaughters of industrialist Peter Cooper wanted to create a museum that would function as a visual library of design, serving to educate and inspire artisans and designers. Today, housed in the historic 1902 Andrew Carnegie mansion in New York City, this contemporary museum is now known as the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. The textile collections contain a wide variety of woven and non-woven pieces, including tapestries, jacquards and a large number of woven costume accessories. This Floating Thread Scarf represents the breadth of woven fabrics and patterns found in the collection.

Every Smithsonian purchase will arrive with a museum provenance card explaining how it is adapted from or inspired by an object or objects in our collection.