Thai Silk Scarf

Ivory cloth with tiny crinkles, shown filling the whole frame.

This scarf is from Thailand. It is silk. Silk takes dye deeply, which gives hand-woven scarves their saturated, slightly iridescent tones. Creamy off-white ground shades to a light khaki band across the upper middle. The entire surface is finely puckered in dense vertical ripples, with a raw ragged lower edge. The color looks soft and even.

Pale, ruffled, and perfectly relaxed about it.