> [!NOTE]+ Meta > Author:: [[Anna Battista]] > Reference:: _On World Embroidery Day, why not celebrating neuroscience?_ (2022). Irenebrination: Notes on Architecture, Art, Fashion, Fashion Law, Science & Technology. https://www.irenebrination.com/irenebrination_notes_on_a/2022/07/world-embroidery-day-neuroscience.html > Date:: 2022 > Tags:: #warp > WeftLinks:: [[Scientific value of craft]] > Claim:: [[Claim - Craft is useful in messaging]] > [!SUMMARY] Summary > Embroidery is a way to make accessible to hospital visitors the scientific research that underpins its work. ### Highlights For the Cajal Embroidery Project, over 75 volunteers collaborated across six countries to create 81 intricate, hand-stitched panels of Cajal's images that, stitched together, ended up creating a single tapestry that was displayed at the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People in Edinburgh. Cajal made his drawings and studies in solitude, in a laboratory fashioned in the attic of his own house; contributors to this project, many of them new to neuroscience or embroidery, worked during the lockdown imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic and, when they didn't have access to supplies because of the restrictions, they became creative and adventurous, and came up with new techniques, dyeing fabrics with teabags to achieve the sepia-coloured background. [[Attachments/5207b2fa5728148b379c9d0b5019eae6_MD5.jpeg|Open: Pasted image 20240419154513.png]] ![[Attachments/5207b2fa5728148b379c9d0b5019eae6_MD5.jpeg]]