Silk Sailor Scarf / Authenticity Certificate

“This silk square certifies that your product has been entirely handcrafted using traditional tools and methods by Helsaya’s craftsmen, with what is regarded as the most prestigious and versatile leather in the world – Genuine 18th Century Empire Russia Leather – excavated from the wreck of the “Metta Catharina” which sailed from St Petersburg, bound for Genoa, only to founder on the rocks in a storm off Drake’s Island in Plymouth Sound, inside Cornwall, on the night of 13 December 1786.

 All crew saved.”

Matthew James | Helsaya Founder and CEO

When Helsaya’s leather was sunken the air was pure and the water was free of plastics and man-made toxins. So, the leather is a time capsule of an era when we were, environmentally speaking, in better shape.