MISS HAVISHAM, the eccentric recluse of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations, is a figure of wounded romance, faded grandeur, and obsessive grief, forever dwelling in the decaying remains of the life she expected to have. Her abandoned wedding dress, stopped clocks, dusty banquet table, and crumbling mansion create an atmosphere of beauty that has been preserved long past its natural moment, making her a fitting inspiration for this richly atmospheric dupioni silk. Its merlot and lavender yarns mingle to create a deep purple-maroon that feels like Victorian decay, much like Miss Havisham’s lost love and the cool, faded melancholy that followed it. The silk’s iridescence gives the color a particularly aged, sumptuous quality, reminiscent of a once-luxurious velvet or satin slowly darkening in the shadows of a neglected room. It is romantic yet somber, opulent yet faded, and beautiful in a way that hints at the passage of time…