Hermès ROSE de COMPAS Multiple colors

Hermès: Beautiful collection square 70 X 70 cm 100% vintage silk, titrated
"Compass Rose". Drawing by Natsuno Hidaka
The compass, this navigation instrument allowing sailors to navigate, is decorated with a compass rose. This poetic name designates an ornamented star, cut in four cardinal points, then in many intermediate orientations. Thirty-two "wind areas" can be so represented.
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 A. Schück. If the North, or Tramontana, does not appear, a Maltese cross, symbolizing Jerusalem indicates the Levant, Levante. Then come Sirocco (SE), Ostro (S), Libeccio (SO), Ponente (0), Maestrale (NO) and Grecale (NE).
Perfectly versatile and mixed, it has never been worn.
No composition label.