Brown and camel arabesque scarf

How a 110 x 180 cm arabesque scarf in brown and camel actually wears

At 110 x 180 cm there is enough length for one turn at the neck with both ends still showing, and the fabric is fine enough to fold down small when you are not wearing it. The print is a run of interlocking diamonds in brown and camel, repeated from one end to the other, so no single part of it reads as the front. To see where this model sits among the others, the long and square shapes are gathered on one page.

Taking it out, putting it back on

A scarf this size travels better than a knitted one. It rolls rather than folds, it weighs almost nothing in a bag, and a crease picked up on the way drops out once it hangs. So it works as the thing you leave in the car or in a desk drawer for the afternoon when the building turns cold. Nothing about it asks for planning, which is most of the reason a printed cotton scarf stays in use for years.

One turn, and the ends still hang low

In the photograph the scarf goes round once at the throat and both panels fall well below the collarbone, which is what the 180 cm of length buys you. Wrap it twice and the ends stop higher, nearer the sternum, with more volume gathered at the neck. The choice is about how much of the print you want on show.

Before you choose: the figures on this scarf

Five lines cover the measurable part. The rest depends on the coats and knits already in your wardrobe.

After something built for cold weather rather than for print? The reversible squares and snoods answer a different need entirely.