Eponym
This is the first piece in the #DarkHedges story. Like heirloom scarves that have come before it, it begins with an immersion into a scene and source that captures me. This scarf is a handwoven distillation of the place I started out this journey, literally and figuratively.
The light flickers through the sides of this tunnel, there are lots of endings in a way, lots of places of rest, of escape, but a tunnel has one true end, no matter how many gaps have come from the slow death of these great trees, or the insertion of gates, etc. This piece is more than a distillation of the present, it's an acceptance of it, and an acknowledgement of the journey ahead, towards something greater.
The threads in the warp here, which will continue through all the #DarkHedges scarves, are meticulously mirrored by those in the weft, intensifying to the cashmere crescendo of the scarf's nape nape of dense bark. It's a panoramic study of the present road ahead, a glimpse of past, a glimmer of future. In the threads is this place, and all the drama of its shadows and shimmers, and hidden deeper is a story beneath the surface, the figurative dark hedges that this journey was about figuring out.