★★★★★3 days ago
Those cranes in flight
The print is what sold me and it has not disappointed. Birds caught mid-flight over those gilded pine branches, the gold catching every shift of light. On the black ground it reads rich and graphic at once.
Cranes over a black ground
Hugo Caesar Tassi printed Spoleto for the Iulia collection — a silk square where white cranes wheel across a deep black satin sky.
On a glossy black ground, white-and-cream cranes take flight among golden-ochre pine boughs, their wings outstretched and red crests bright. The motif mirrors across the square, and a wide gold band frames the field with a fine gold line at the very edge.
It is the kind of scarf that carries a plain coat or a fine knit — folded into a triangle at the throat, knotted at the neck, or left long over the shoulders so the cranes catch the light as the silk moves.
Silk crepe-satin, digitally printed
A pure silk satin chosen for its sheen and the depth a black ground gives to gold and white.
The crepe-satin weave gives one luminous face and a soft fluid drape, so the print reads crisp and the scarf slips into easy folds. Digital printing holds the fine feathering of the cranes and the needle detail of the pines against the dense black.
The black ground deepens the gold to a warm glow and lifts the white of the birds — a single grounding tone the brand reads as Basalt, asking for nothing more than fine gold jewellery to echo the border.
