Freya’s Vegvísir Double-Sided Hand-Rolled Mulberry Silk Scarf

• Textile composition: 100% mulberry silk
• Finish: Silk twill
• Edges: Hand-rolled
• Print: Double-sided
• 90 x 90 cm square scarf in midnight blue, gold, and amber

Symbolism and Craft
The Vegvísir appears in Icelandic manuscripts as a symbol carried to ensure the bearer would find their way through storms and unfamiliar conditions, even when the path ahead was not visible. In the Prose Edda, Freya owned a falcon feather cloak called the Valshamr that gave her the ability to shift her form and travel between realms. Her chariot was drawn by two cats whose names the sources never recorded, and when she wept for her lost lover Óðr, her tears fell as gold on the earth and turned to amber in the sea. The chain border references Brísingamen, the necklace she acquired through four nights of negotiation with the dwarven smiths who forged it, a piece so significant that both Odin and Loki conspired to take it from her.
This scarf carries every major symbol of Freya’s mythology in a single composition. The 16 momme mulberry silk holds its shape through structured folds and drapes with weight when worn loose. The double-sided print means there is no wrong way to tie it; both surfaces carry the full depth of the illustration. It functions as a wearable piece with the density of a textile art object, and it will be the only one in any room you bring it into.
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