Cocoon Silk - Antique

"Whatever time does to it, it only improves"

A faded gold ground carries a central medallion, arabesque fills around it, a slate blue outer border framing the whole. The colours are not vivid they are something better: matured. The surface that raw silk thread builds over decades holds a depth no new material can replicate. Collectors seek precisely this: that heavy luminosity only lived-in time can give.