Ethnic Green Scarf with Pompoms

A 90x180cm green scarf printed in four panels

Hung on a rail, this one reads as a single block of green and nothing else. Pick it up and it resolves into four separate printed panels, each carrying its own drawing, set side by side and kept apart by narrow dividing bands. That gap between the two impressions is the point of the piece: quiet from across a room, busy in the hand.

The medallions, and the two panels that keep them in check

Two of the four panels do the talking. Large concentric medallions in cream and pale green sit on a deep forest ground, each one ringed by a crown of small rays, and a paler panel carries a tight grid of round dots outlined in black. The other two hold back: a sage ground scattered with small white flowers, and an emerald band covered in fine black arabesques that you only read up close. The stretch that wraps against the neck is quieter still, a small speckled print and nothing more. The balance between the two busy panels and the two calm ones is what stops the scarf shouting.

Tassels at the corners, nothing along the long edges

It is worth saying what this scarf does not have. There is no fringing running down the long sides and no beading. The finishing is concentrated in four places: tassels at the corners, knotted in green and cream, hanging at the bottom of both ends.

The details worth checking

Who it suits, and how to wear it

This one earns its place in a wardrobe that runs to plain colours. If most of what you wear is navy, grey or black, a single piece like this is usually enough colour for a whole outfit. Over a black jumper or a denim jacket, 90x180cm of fabric is enough to loop once and still leave both ends falling to the front, as in the photograph; folded lengthways it takes a tighter double turn; opened out it covers the shoulders. If you want to compare drawings before deciding, the other long printed pieces in the range are the place to start.

If you would rather knot something shorter, the square format instead of the long one folds down into a triangle and sits closer to the collar.