Fine vertical stripes in dusty rose, olive green, charcoal, oat, and tan, packed close enough that from across a room the whole thing reads as a warm texture rather than as a stripe.

What it is made of: an even 50/50 split of cotton and linen — cotton for softness against the neck, linen for the drier hand and the slight structure that stops a scarf collapsing into a rope.

Size: measured approximately 23.6 x 70.9 in. before the fringe, with roughly 3.9 in. of fringe at each end. The fringe adds enough weight that the tails hang straight instead of curling.

The detail most photos miss: there is a genuine soft rose in the stripe sequence, and a real olive green, sitting between the oat and the charcoal. Up close it is more colourful than it looks from three paces away.

Care: machine wash cold on a gentle cycle, lay flat to dry.

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• A heavier cotton in the same earth palette: Heritage Twill Cotton Scarf.

• If you prefer blocks to stripes: Nomad Tri-Color Cotton Scarf.