Timeless Tattersall draws its name from Tattersall’s horse market in London, founded in 1766, where the checked tattersall pattern was first used on horse blankets. Painted on a silk scarf featuring this historic grid, a showjumping horse emerges in layered, semi-transparent acrylic, allowing the pattern beneath to remain visible. The horse’s hooves overlap the scarf’s cream border, giving the illusion that it is jumping through the frame.
The silk scarf design features four horse heads arranged face-to-face across the checked field, each fitted with head and neck guards tied neatly with bows, with an orange badge at the center reading “Hermès Sellier Paris.” The word sellier, meaning saddler in French, reinforces the fashion house’s origins as a harness maker. I mounted the silk scarf to a handmade wood panel and finished it with a metallic gold floater frame, selected to complement the composition while accentuating the scarf’s black contrast edge.
