Throughout 2019, scientists across the world have been celebrating the International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements, which marks 150 years since Dmitri Mendeleev devised a system to arrange the elements (see CHEMISTRY REVIEW, Vol. 28, No. 3, pp. 16–20).
Jane Stewart, a biochemist and STEM ambassador from Guildford, has put rather more creative effort into this celebration than most, spending around 350 hours skilfully crafting her unique macramé periodic table. This combination of art and science is made from metallic crochet thread and contains around 200 000 half-hitch knots. Jane says: ‘Macramé gives a sense of achievement. I enjoy designing my own patterns to follow. I’m a scientist by training and the ordered craft form reminds me of lab experiments at university: method, repeat, result.’
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