Comes in 2 Options. Size 76 inches x 26 inches. Printed on cotton. 
 
1. Runaway Baby Advert Scarf
A memorial made from the words meant to erase them.
Across Caribbean colonial newspapers, runaway slave adverts were printed daily — cold notices that treated human beings as property, describing their scars, their accents, their skills, their “defects.” These ads were meant to criminalise freedom, to turn acts of resistance into punishable offences.
This scarf transforms those historical documents into something they were never meant to become:
a site of remembrance.
Each fragment of text is taken from real adverts across the Caribbean —  reassembled to honour the courage of those who chose themselves over captivity. Their stories are not rewritten here. They are reclaimed.
Made from soft, breathable cotton, this piece is designed to be worn gently, almost ritualistically. It is not fashion for the sake of fashion. It is a reminder of the countless acts of rebellion that shaped our survival, a way of carrying the memory of our ancestors in the open, refusing the silence that was once forced upon them.
This scarf is for anyone who wants to honour resistance, refusal, and the unbroken thread of Caribbean identity that continues to rise, generation after generation.
 
2. “We Remember You” Plantation Record Scarf
Names that were kept for accounting — held now with tenderness.
This scarf is built from surviving plantation records — the ledgers where enslaved people were reduced to lists: name, age, origin, price. Numbers that never captured their humanity, their laughter, their grief, their brilliance.
In “We Remember You,” these records appear in four colonial languages — English, French, Spanish, and Dutch — reflecting the vastness of the Caribbean’s forced migrations. Woven between them are imagined scenes of everyday life on Caribbean plantations: moments of care, strength, family, and community that slavery tried, but never succeeded, to destroy.
This is not about aestheticising trauma.
It is about refusing erasure.
Every name on this scarf belonged to a person who lived, loved, and endured on Caribbean soil. People whose lives are too often flattened into statistics or footnotes. This piece is a small offering to their memory — a way to bring their presence back into our everyday world.
Printed on soft cotton, the scarf is meant to be held, worn, or placed in your space as an altar of remembrance. It invites reflection, gratitude, and connection to the long arc of our history — the part that textbooks rarely honour.