Market of Stars Scarf – Friendship Love & Truth

$45.00

Designed on Vancouver Island
Fair Trade

100% bamboo/wood viscose
68cm x 155cm

“And this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart
I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart).”
– e.e. cummings

“Love is the mystery of water and a star.”
-Pablo Neruda

“Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.”
-Hafiz

Availability: 1 in stock

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.

It takes a bold heart to live your truth. To keep reminding yourself that love is the answer, even on your hard days! We created this eclectic, super cool kimono from an 1880s print unearthed in a library archive, and adapted the utterly charming wood-grain lettering to build the trim. The result is one of our favourite pieces in the collection: beautiful and completely unique, with a lot of romance, and a touch of rock and roll. There are so many delightful images on this duster, all of which are historic symbols of friendship, love, and truth!

Beehive — cooperation
Bundle of Stick — teamwork & solidarity
Clasped Hands — trust & friendship
Hand-In-Heart — charity & kindness
Flowers — eternal love
Eye — truth

100% viscose (derived from plant fibres such as bamboo and wood). Handwash, hang to dry.
68cm x 155cm

Our Muse

The romantic, the icon. Women who live boldly in colour, who refuse to stop fighting for love. Women who wear their hearts on their sleeves.

More Inspo

In the era before social media and texting, the Victorians were great lovers of using pictures and symbols in their letters, artwork, and communications (kind of like we use emojis today ;)). Symbols like the ones in our FLT design often appeared on greeting cards, postcards, and jewellery to communicate messages of love. Specific flowers even symbolized different things — for example, a camellia was symbol of longing, and the iris represented faith & hope. Back then, just like today, a picture was worth a throusand words 🙂

The Poem

Her teenage dream: just pictures
of freedom. The back of a shiny truck,
sun rising over the city, purse full
of lipgloss and tickets and kisses.
Polaroid light on a strong jaw,
yellow heartache, red heels, the soft shoulder
of her best friend, soft shoulder
of paved roads.

Now, she looks back and smiles, how nothing
is like she pictured. Bare toes,
windy hair, green grass — her sun rises
on simple things. Snapshots
of morning light in the kitchen, flowers
on the table, wine in the fridge, lists
and keys and kisses. Phone calls
to her best friend, calls
of bright birds outside the window.

Her heart is the same. Red
as heels, shiny as fresh paint.
Yellow ache, green grass,
full of kisses.