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Market of Stars – Scarf – The Guardians

$45.00

Designed on Vancouver Island
Fair Trade

100% bamboo/wood viscose
68cm x 155cm.

“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
– W.B. Yeats

“Where the light falls, love awakens.”
– George MacDonald

“My heart is a lantern lit by the stars.”
– Sarah Teasdale

Availability: 3 in stock

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We’ve modelled the size and weight after our favourite vintage French scarves to create chic, easy to wear designs for every day use. Wear them wrapped once around the neck, tucked in to a jacket, or tied in the hair. Crafted from soft viscose, the fabric is a lighter, airier weight than our kimonos, with the same beautifully soft feel.

The Guardians began as a midnight offering — created at our studio in the small hours of a sleepless night, and pieced together by hand like a little prayer made of paper wings.

At the heart of our design are the enchantingly beautiful angels from artist Edward Burne-Jones’ The Days of Creation series, collaged together in to a sweeping procession, their feathered wings folded around them, and each with a world cradled in their arms. We added a velvety night sky and a crescent moon from an 1800’s celestial lithograph, and wild branches and vines taken from a 17th century Italian pastoral etching. The trim features a vintage William Morris golden floral pattern, interwoven with stars borrowed from an antique Victorian book cover. The resulting print is our tribute to the mystery and tenderness of unseen guardians, and to the acts of grace that hold us up when we falter. Whether you believe in divine messengers or the strength we find in each other, The Guardians is a reminder that we never walk alone. Light surrounds you, and wings are always near.

100% viscose (derived from plant fibres such as wood and bamboo).
68cm x 155cm.

Our Muse

The protector, the truehearted. Women who hold others, and trust in grace even when they cannot see the way. Women who walk knowing wings are near.

More Inspo

The angels in The Guardians come from Edward Burne-Jones’ The Days of Creation series, painted in the 1870s as a poetic exploration of beginnings, wonder, and watchfulness. Each panel depicts an angel holding a globe, suggesting a tiny world being tended with care — a simple but powerful image of protection.

And then there’s the mystery. One of the original panels — the fourth in the series — was stolen in 1970 while the series was on loan to Dunster House at Harvard University’s dining hall. It was cut out of its frame and has never been recovered. It simply vanished, leaving the remaining works to carry the story forward without it. Over the years, the missing panel has been reconstructed from old photographs and descriptions, but the original has never resurfaced, adding an unexpected layer of loss, longing, and wonder to the series. We love the history — and the idea of something beautiful, now unseen, yet still felt.

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