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Silks to Wear or Hang


Many are printed images of glaze events on pots.

I create digital files from my photos of my artwork (clay, pigments, paintings). I send them to Silk Melody in Canada who gets them printed with reactive ink. I hand-wash scarves but tags say "dry-clean only". 

Buddha and the Snowball

$125.00

Silk, 70" x 20", choose Twill or Crepe De Chine


An assembly of digital images including: Icelandic glacier, ice in Buzzards Bay from Stony Beach in 2015, an ice bore-hole in Antarctica, a sand dollar in a bowl glazed with Namibian rock (Snowball Earth), foraminifera and a sculpture of a Buddha. The image marked up in red labels what is where.


If shipping is needed, choose USPS $8 and it will arrive in a Priority bubble mailer. If sending several to different locations, please order them separately.

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Magma Sunrise

$98.00

65" x 16.5" Silk Satin, 16mm

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North Galapagos Seas

$125.00

65" x 17.5" Silk Twill, 14mm

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Galapagos Seamounts

$125.00
65: x 16.5" Silk Chiffon 8mm
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I Ching Images: Monastic Colors

$125.00

On 16 mm silk twill size 70" x 20", these images are interpretations of each 'Image' section of the I Ching's 64 hexagrams. It can be a hanging or a wearable piece.


Paula Underwood Spencer, a native American writer, once said to me, "Ms. Pearl, we only need three outfits -- one to wash, one to wear, and one for ceremonies." Wearing the scarves I've had made remind me that ceremony is an awareness shift. I often wear them hidden under hoodies or visibly draped and fastened with a knot or a pin. Never the same twice.


Find years of uploaded videos on YouTube by searching "Eileen Fisher tie scarves".

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Book of Changes: Images on Backdrop of Particulates in Motion

$125.00

On 16 milimeter silk satin, 64 images interpreted by Joan from translated text generated by a civilization from 2,500 to 3,000 years ago, on a backdrop of wind and carbon monoxide chemistry in motion on a winter day in the northern hemisphere. If you want to explore the maps of wind, weather, ocean, and pollution conditions, as forecast by supercomputers, on an interactive animated map that's updated every three hours, go to Earth NullSchool.


Wearing this is 'a trip'. Its colors interact well with almost everything and the way it's wrapped gives options for composing content and colors.

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Cosmic Magma Square: 36" Square

$125.00

36" x 36" Silk Satin 16mm

This reminds me of my place in a vast living system. There was only one "Cosmic Magma" bowl but what happened on it from melting mud was an amazement to nearly everyone who saw it. Now it's on silk to wear or hang and it's also on the book cover of "Opening Science for All: a Continuing Quest" by Cecily Selby.


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Cosmic Magma Square: 20" Square

$70.00 $65.00
20.5" x 20.5" Silk Satin 12mm
I read this and wear it and am reminded me of my place as a life form in a living system.
There was only one "Cosmic Magma" bowl but the image was so magical that I've wanted to keep it circulating.  Self-organized mud made rivulets that are on many of the scarves in the collection.
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Mid-Atlantic Ridge Rock Slurry

$65.00
20.5" x 20.5" Silk Satin 12mm

Can't say anyone else would get the thrill I do of wearing Earth crust around my neck.
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Morning Pigment Lines

$125.00
65" x 16.5" Crepe de Chine 12mm

Photographed pigments, all named. Central line of olivene sand. Keep clicking and read. Moves in the wind, drapes, I love it.
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Refined Rocks make Pigments: 20" Square

$55.00
A 20" x 20" square of 12mm silk satin
Created from a photograph of artists pigments on a soapstone slab.  Add binders to get paints that artists have used for centuries.  Most of these came from rock deposits somewhere in the world.

I wear it alot and as I fold into a triange there's choice about what colors show which makes it go well with many outfits.

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Refined Rocks make Pigments: 36" Square

$125.00
A 36" x 36" square of 16mm silk satin
Created from a photograph of artists pigments on a soapstone slab.  Add binders to get paints that artists have used for centuries.  Most of these came from rock deposits somewhere in the world.

I wear it alot and as I fold into a triange there's choice about what colors show which makes it go well with many outfits.

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