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The Met Cloisters Garden Embroidered Oblong Linen Scarf

The Met Cloisters Garden Embroidered Oblong Linen Scarf

$115.00 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

An art scarf makes a unique gift for her. The lush embroidery defining this scarf reimagines two charming flower studies illustrating sprigs of white Snow-in-Summer ( Cerastium tomentosum ) and blue Speedwell ( Veronica chamaedrys ) from a book (ca. 1510–1515) by the Master of Claude de France. This spectacular book at The Met Cloisters belongs to what's been called "the last flowering" of northern European manuscript illumination in the medieval tradition. The French artist immortalized a selection of flora…

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