Hermès ROSE COMPAS Multiple colors

Hermès: Beautiful collection square 70 x 70 cm 100% Vintage silk, titled
“Rose de Compas” . Dessin de Natsuno Hidaka
The compass, this navigational instrument allowing sailors to navigate, is decorated with a wind rose. This poetic name designates an ornamented star, cut into four cardinal points, then in many intermediate orientations. Thirty-two "wind areas" can be represented in this way.
The Phoenicians would have been the first to use it and it is sometimes said that their colors allowed illiterate sailors to use them.
In the center of his star Natsuno Hidaka takes the initials of the winds as they were named in the Middle Ages in Italy. This graphic appears in a work published in Hamburg in the early twentieth century, Der Kompass of A. Schück. If the North, or Tramontana, does not appear, a cross of Malta, symbolizing Jerusalem indicates the Levant, Levante. Then come Sirocco (SE), Ostro (S), Libeccio (SO), Ponente (0), Maestrale (NO) and Grecale (BORN).
Perfectly versatile and mixed, it has never been worn.