Fine beige scarf with golden floral print

A sand-beige rectangle, 70 x 180 cm

At 70 x 180 cm this is a long, narrow scarf rather than a square, so it loops and drapes instead of folding into a triangle. The ground colour is a quiet sand beige, light enough for the print to stay legible and deep enough not to look washed out against a cream jumper.

Short fringing on both narrow ends

Each 70 cm end finishes in short fringing, left slightly ragged rather than knotted. It gives the ends some movement when the scarf hangs loose, and it keeps the finish lighter than a turned hem would.

Gold and taupe flowers in the same print

The flowers repeat in close, even rows across the fabric. Roughly every other one is picked out in bright metallic gold, while its neighbours are printed in flat brown taupe, a few of them with a dotted centre. From across a room the scarf reads as a textured plain; up close the two finishes pull apart.

Three ways to wear a fine beige scarf

Loop it once at the neck, as photographed, and both ends fall to the front with the print still in view. Laid flat over a jacket it behaves more like a stole for a cool evening, and folded lengthways it ties as a hair band. If you want the same weight in a different print, the other fine printed scarves knot in exactly the same way.

Fabric, edges and measurements of this beige scarf

Cold wash, cool iron, out of direct sun

A cold, gentle wash and line drying are enough. Iron on a low setting, preferably on the reverse, so the gold printing is never pressed directly; long spells in strong sunlight will dull it just as quickly. When the weather turns and this weight stops being enough, the thicker winter pieces take over.