Concourse of the Birds Oblong Scarf

$89.00 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

An art scarf inspired by The Met collection. The lively motif featured on both sides of this scarf comes from an illustrated manuscript (ca. 1600) of Farid al-Din Attar’s mystical poem Language of the Birds . The text comprises a series of parables narrated by a hoopoe, a crested bird that leads a flock representing individual souls on a journey to find the mythic simurgh , a benevolent winged creature symbolizing spiritual unity. This scarf reimagines the illustration decorating "The Concourse of the Birds,"…