Lapis Green

Description

A lapis blue ground, cool and composed, carrying a scatter of emerald green 8-point star motifs, each one small, exact, crystalline in its weave. The 8-point star appears here in a single colour against the blue, creating a surface of quiet geometric rhythm. Lapis lazuli, the stone, was ground into pigment for the illuminated manuscripts of the Islamic world, representing the blue of divine knowledge and of the sky at the moment before it becomes night. This tie carries that blue and seeds it with green, the colour of life and continuity. It is a scholarly tie, for a man who reads.