Cable Knit Scarf – 100% Cashmere – 35x180cm – Melange Red

This red cashmere scarf is knitted from a melange yarn, so the cranberry red is mixed with darker fibres and the cables have a softly flecked, heathered look rather than one flat colour. It reads deep and rich, never bright, and leans cool towards berry; the twists of the cable add their own shadow, which makes it look darker still in the folds.

It is 100% cashmere throughout, in a 28-count yarn twisted six strands thick (6-ply). That weight of yarn is what lets the cable pattern stand up proud and spring back after it has been stretched. The scarf measures 35 × 180 cm and ends in long tassels. Wind it twice round the neck for a close, warm collar on a cold walk, or wear it long and loose with a dark coat. Made in Nepal.

Catherine wrote about her scarf in a different shade, Rapture Rose, calling it “such a wonderfully uplifting colour in the British winter”. The same holds for this red on a grey January morning. She also found it beautiful quality and very soft and warm, and liked how neatly the ends were finished.