The problem with buying art for someone is that art is personal.

What you like and what they like might not overlap. And a painting or a print goes on a wall, which means it has to work with everything else they own.

A scarf is different. It goes with them, not with their apartment. It's worn, not displayed. And if the person loves art, wearing something made from an original painting is a different kind of gift than buying them a poster.

Every scarf in this collection started as a painting made from tea bags on paper. The painting got photographed and printed on silk. The original no longer exists. The scarf is what's left.

That's a story worth telling on someone's birthday.

Shop the collection.

— Reed Slater
Teascarf Brooklyn