Snow in the Rose Garden No. 1

Hand-dyed featherweight blanket shawl woven in ultrafine linen & silk. 142cm x 142cm (second photo shows entire design of our featherweight blanket shawls), Brendan Joseph signature woven into lower right hand corner, giving visual interest when worn as a scarf, and disappearing entirely, depending on how you wear it. Woven and Handmade in Ireland.

The first powdery blanket of winter snow drifts overnight into the walled garden, diffusing the early morning light. Crystals form, dew turns to fine lace, then evaporates. On the climbing rose, a gentle pink and blush white, droplets form and break. Traces remain like veins or a dessert’s dry streams, remnants of waves receding across sand. The virgin snow glows like a kaleidoscope of pale pinks, soon to become fuel for snowballs, but as of yet, its surface is disturbed only by the tracks of a running fox.