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Any occasion is ideal for giving a scarf – from birthdays to Mother's Day. A beautiful hand painted silk scarf makes a special gift for women of any age.

The silk painting technique which the artisan uses to hand paint her silk scarves is called the SERTI technique. It is the silk painting technique where designs are formed with gutta which is applied to silk. Once the gutta has dried, it acts as a barrier for the dye or paint—keeping the color within the outlined areas of the design.

Irina never uses patterns or stencils and never create duplicates. She says that everything she paints comes to her "at the moment when she apply paints to silk." She enjoys exploring new effects, new compositions, new combinations of colors and shapes.

She studied the SERTI technique in Russia, the country which is known for cultivating this SERTI silk painting method and introducing it to Western Europe. The SERTI technique, so popular today in France, arrived in Paris through members of the Czar's family who disbursed throughout Europe during the Bolshevik Revolution. Many fled to Paris, bringing with them the secrets of the SERTI silk painting.