Wearable Art

The scarf begins as a physical object.

Tea bags steeped and carefully arranged on watercolor paper. Two days of drying. An iron to flatten the warped paper and set what the tea left behind. The result is an original artwork — made by hand, with a natural material, through a process that can't be fully controlled.

That painting gets photographed and digitally transferred onto mulberry silk.

What you wear is that translation. Not a pattern inspired by the artwork. Not a design that references the process. The artwork itself, on fabric.

That's what makes it wearable art. Not the category. Not the intention. The fact that a physical, original thing was made first — and the scarf is how it travels.

— Reed Slater
Founder, Teascarf Brooklyn

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