I went to see
From Atoms to Patterns at the Wellcome Collection and was excited to see an example of successful cross-collaboration between scientists and textile designers. In the 1940's, Dr Helen Megaw was a crystallographer at Cambridge University and was awed by the patterns and forms that molecules were making under the microscope. She hooked up with a textile designer to create The Festival Pattern Group, which included some of the leading textile manufacturers in the UK, and scientists and textile designers worked together to create exciting new patterns and weave structures.
From Atoms to Patterns at the Wellcome Collection and was excited to see an example of successful cross-collaboration between scientists and textile designers. In the 1940's, Dr Helen Megaw was a crystallographer at Cambridge University and was awed by the patterns and forms that molecules were making under the microscope. She hooked up with a textile designer to create The Festival Pattern Group, which included some of the leading textile manufacturers in the UK, and scientists and textile designers worked together to create exciting new patterns and weave structures.
The work was shown at the Festival of Britain in 1951, and the highlight was the Regatta Restaurant, which was decorated using wallpapers and fabrics from the collections, and even the menus were printed onto linen napkins which were trimmed with lace based on the patterns produced by the Hydrargillite mineral.
A current example of cross-collaboration is the Nobel Textiles project at Central St Martins. Nobel prize-winning scientist have been partnered with a textile designer to develop textiles that respond to scientific discovery.
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