Hermès

Hermès Birkin 30 – Rouge Garance

Yarn Embroidery by Jay Ahr

Model: Birkin

Size: 30cm

Condition: Pristine

Provenance: Edinburgh, Scotland

Composition: Yarn embroidery & Togo leather

Hardware: Palladium plated

Other: Detachable clochette with two

encased keys and padlock

Bespoke Silk Twilly

A woven patterned cloth largely synonymous with Scotland, ancient evidence of Tartan style cloth has been found as far afield as the Taklamakan desert in Northwest China dating back 3,000 years. By the early 18th Century, tartan came to be used widely in Scotland but it was not until the 19th Century that specific tartans came to be used to identify individual Scottish clans with the first official naming and registration of clan tartans starting in 1815. Today the tartan is an integral part of all Scottish clans. This heavy weight tartan hails from the MacIvor clan who claim to have been part of King Alexander II’s army which conquered Argyll. The clan’s mixed fortunes over the centuries saw their estates restored by the Earl of Argyll in the late 17th Century. This bag is a vintage Hermés Birkin 30 cast in Rouge Garance, first produced in 2009. Detailed with palladium plated hardware it comes with a detachable clochette with two encased keys and a padlock. Featuring round top handles and a fold-over top with twist-lock closure. The smooth Togo leather gives a soft supple finish for a relaxed contour.

Regarded as a cultural icon of Scotland, tartan is made with alternating dyed threads woven as both warp and weft at right angles to each other forming visible diagonal lines. The different colours cross diagonally, creating blended new colours, often bold, but sometimes subtle. The blocks of colours repeat in a grid-like pattern of lines and squares known as a sett. Jay Ahr playfully reinterprets the tartan by using the background colour of each bag to form the solid block colours of the sett. The blend of leather and yarn not only form vibrant new shades, but also a create a uniquely beautiful textured effect.