As I was completing my 2022 temperature scarf I started to think about how to continue this project. I found it had made me much more aware of my environment and the changes brought about by climate change and I wanted to be able to see changes and trends across years. I had really enjoyedContinue reading “Temperature records 2023 – 202?”
Category Archives: Periodic Blackwork
Temperature records 2022
I hadn’t previously thought to record my temperature records here but although I had intended this blog to be about my chemistry-related work, daily temperature records fit rather well with the ‘periodically’ title. So here goes… back before the start of 2022 I spotted on social media that recording daily temperature data had become aContinue reading “Temperature records 2022”
Festival follow-up
Loving that people who came to my Cambridge Festival workshop in March are sending me pictures of what they’ve made – one talented young stitcher made several of the designs, and one of the adult group picked out more elements from this blog and turned them into pouches – fabulous!
The start of a new project…
I’m sure you can see what it’s going to be, but no clues just yet as to how the elements will be represented… that’s for another day…
Stitch your own element!
Would you like to try your hand at blackwork embroidery? Why not join me for a workshop at the Cambridge Festival and work on your own element to take away. Workshops for adults and children (8 upwards) – pre-registration required. https://www.festival.cam.ac.uk/events/embroider-your-element
Complete
So here it is, all 118 elements, a different and relevant pattern for each. I must admit that when I started out I never imagined I would be able to find a meaningful pattern for every element. The initial plan was simply 118 different blackwork patterns, perhaps incorporating a few of Dalton’s symbols. It wasContinue reading “Complete”
Element 118
Oganesson, atomic number 118, is the last element of the periodic table, at least for the time being. It is named for Yuri Oganessian who led the team at the Russia’s Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in the discoveries of six elements, oganesson included. Oganesson has, in theory, seven electron shells with a full outerContinue reading “Element 118”
Thirty and counting
Back in May ‘Sue the Vic’ asked if my embroidery would be finished in time to exhibit in the jubilee exhibition in one of our local churches, and suggested that I could write a piece about the elements discovered in the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. The race was on to pick up from theContinue reading “Thirty and counting”
Roentgenium
When Anna Bertha Ludwig saw an image of the bones in her hand she exclaimed ‘I have seen my death!’ – quite a reaction to the first human X-ray. Just a few weeks earlier her husband Wilhelm Röntgen had discovered a new kind of radiation, and he called it ‘X-radiation’, the ‘X’ for ‘unknown’. HeContinue reading “Roentgenium”
Flash and bang
The flammable properties of hydrogen gas are well known to anyone who has been to a chemistry demonstration lecture and seen a hydrogen balloon being exploded. But this property of hydrogen does not match up to its name which is derived from the Greek for ‘water former’, water being the product when it is burned.Continue reading “Flash and bang”
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