Category Archives: Periodic Blackwork

First posted on FB 26/11/2019 Two more elements, both with names that have connections to the sun. Helium, from the ancient Greek Helios for sun, as helium was first discovered in the sun. And nihonium, from a Japanese word for Japan, meaning Land of the Rising Sun.#IYPT2019

First posted on FB on 20th October 2019 New project underway for the end of the International Year of the Periodic Table. I’ve always wanted to have a go at blackwork, and with all the lovely colourful periodic tables around, I thought it would be nice to take it back to its original monochrome. WhenContinue reading “The beginning”