Creating silk and cashmere jacquard scarves with images from contemporary artists, CeMe Design asks "is it fashion or art?" Maybe both!

We are honored to announce the launch of the "Art Scarf Project" with a kickstarter campaign made possible by the collaboration among CeMe Design, the artist Mary Curtis Ratcliff of Berkeley, California and the weaving company in Italy Darte. Click here to find out more about this exciting project!

Take a look at this informational video showing how these beautiful jacquard scarves are produced by the weaving company Darte.

THE ART SCARF PROJECT will translate the work of professional contemporary artists into luxury jacquard scarves suitable to frame on your wall or on your body. Designed in New York City and made from pure cashmere and silk in Italy, these scarves will use images from paintings, drawings and photography by living artists whose work has been recognized both regionally and nationally. It is our hope that when you see them, the question of whether they are fashion or art will disappear as you realize, as we do, that they're both!

For our first project, we're honored to work with Mary Curtis Ratcliff of Berkeley, California (www.marycurtisratcliff.com). We're using her beautiful mixed media triptych entitled "Below the Falls" from 2009. Marco Pizzato, Director of Design for CeMe Design, LLC, has transformed the images into jacquard scarves made of cashmere and silk with our weaving partner, D'arte, in Biella, Italy. We were very fortunate that D'arte produced the prototypes for these scarves without asking us for immediate payment so we could proceed with the project!

These beautiful scarves, which may also be produced in shades of blue, red, and yellow in the future, can be hung on your wall as a piece of art, like a tapestry, or draped around your neck as a fashion statement.

OUR NEXT STEP

We are proud to introduce a "Kickstarter" campaign in orderto create an inventory or stock of these "Below The Falls" scarves, with a minimum order of 10 scarves per design, or 30 for the entire triptych, to be manufactured in Italy and shipped to us in New York City. (Those minimums are set by the mill in Italy, by the way.) Once we have the inventory, we'll start to market and sell them. To create this inventory, we need $8,500.00, which will pay for production, shipping, import duties, and design fees.

REWARDS

Why not do your holiday shopping early? We have great gift ideas in our Rewards section and on our Kickstarter Page, most of them available for holiday delivery!! Take a look to the thumbs here below to discover what rewards you can get!