Hatshepsut was Egypt’s most powerful female pharaoh – she ruled for two decades around 1470 BC, took the full crown and titles, and sent trading fleets down the Red Sea that came back loaded with gold, ebony, and myrrh trees. You’ve probably never heard of her, and that’s because her monuments were defaced after her death and nobody could read the hieroglyphs to figure out who she’d been until around 1822. It was Cleopatra who, fourteen centuries later, got all the press.
So why name a shawl after Hatshepsut? I can only guess, but I believe you’ll want to look at the colors for the answer. Lapis and carnelian were the stones Egyptian jewelers reached for first, and the bobbles look like the beads off a broad collar, scattered loose across the stripes. It feels like a piece from a pharaoh’s wardrobe, reimagined and knit.
Get the pattern via Etsy, designed by Steffi Hochfellner.
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