Silk Scarf | Rose Anzac Memorial

During the First World War, Anzac's stationed in France would buy embroidered silk postcards to send home to their loved ones. Hand embroidered using silk thread by French Women, these postcards created a thriving cottage industry and much needed income during the war.

Made using the finest materials, meticulously crafted and finished by hand, this scarf features an original artwork by Chantal Sneddon. Inspired by these postcards and the poetry of the era, the design features a poppy from the postcard held in the Anzac Memorial Collection.

Designed exclusively for the Anzac Memorial.

This wreath of roses is inspired by Vera Brittain’s poem Perhaps,
which she dedicated to her fiancé Roland Aubrey Leighton who was
killed at the age of 20 by a sniper in 1915. The poem hauntingly
captures the numb grief felt by so many after the loss of a loved one,
when the world is so familiar and so changed in the same instant.

PERHAPS THE SUMMER WOODS WILL SHIMMER BRIGHT,
AND CRIMSON ROSES ONCE AGAIN BE FAIR,
AND AUTUMN HARVEST FIELDS A RICH DELIGHT,
ALTHOUGH YOU ARE NOT THERE.
VERA BRITTAIN (1893-1970), PERHAPS (EXCERPT)

Made from 100% Mulberry Silk
Size Dimensions: 1 metre square