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Market of Stars Scarf – Wildheart

$45.00

Designed on Vancouver Island
Fair Trade

100% bamboo/wood viscose
68cm x 155cm

“The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.”
— Willa Cather

“Poetry is news brought to the mountains by a unicorn and an echo.”
— Czeslaw Milosz

“She who is brave, is free.”
— Seneca

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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. They make the perfect gift too!

Love is enough.
Introducing Wildheart — a centuries-old celebration of love in its truest form: untamed, devoted, and freely chosen. Created from a richly layered collage of historic tapestries spanning the 1400s through the 1700s, this lush print gathers verdant French landscapes, medieval banners, castle borders, and woven gardens from across the ages. At its heart is the beloved Unicorn Rests in a Garden tapestry, one of the most enduring and romantic images in medieval art. In it, the mythic unicorn — long a symbol of the untameable — rests within a garden enclosure. Though collared, the buckle is loose; though fenced, the boundary is low. The unicorn could leave if she wished, and yet she stays — a wild thing held not by hands, but by the heart. The banners that frame our design are also drawn from an antique tapestry, and bear the words in English and Latin:
No hand may keep a wild thing / Nulla manus ferum retinet
Yet the heart may hold it / Cor tamen id tenet
The rich, deep red trim carries the phrase Love is Enough, reconstructed from gilded lettering found in a Flemish painting from the 1500s. It’s our nod to the enduring belief — embraced as a motto by one of our great influences, artist William Morris — that love itself is both sustenance and shelter. Wildheart is our ode to love that honours freedom, cherishes wildness, and understands that what is chosen freely is what will always endure.

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

Our Muse

The untamed, the true-of-heart. Women who know that love is not a cage, but a garden that invites you to stay. Women who trust that what is chosen by the heart will always endure.

More Inspo

The unicorn tapestries are among the most beloved works of medieval art — woven between the late 1400s and early 1500s, at a time when tapestries were prized not only for their beauty, but for their warmth, symbolism, and storytelling power. Made from wool and silk, and coloured with natural dyes, these enormous woven scenes once lined the stone walls of castles, transforming cold interiors into lush, dreamlike gardens filled with flowers, animals, and mythic creatures.

The Unicorn Rests in a Garden scene is especially enchanting. Unlike earlier depictions that focus on the hunt of the unicorn, this image shows the creature at peace — resting within a flowering enclosure, alert yet calm. Though collared, the tether is loose; though fenced, the boundary is low. Art historians have long noted that the unicorn appears free to leave if it wishes, suggesting a rare medieval idea: that true devotion cannot be forced. Love, in this telling, is something chosen.

Tapestries were often filled with layers of meaning. Flowers and plants weren’t just decorative — they carried symbolic messages of love, fidelity, abundance, and renewal. Borders and banners frequently included text, mottos, or verses, allowing woven images to speak in words as well as pictures. With Wildheart, we loved leaning into this tradition, weaving together imagery and language to tell a story of love that honours wildness rather than containing it.

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