Or choose a long, generous open-weave woolen scarf or one in wrinkled rough cotton solid or with a muted print.

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Fortuny would bring his print-and-stencil technique to cotton yardage as well, to be used for interior decoration.

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The designer is reissuing six prints from the last decade in four stretch-cotton styles in a capsule she calls the Archive Print Collection.

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