- Title:
- Insulin 8.25, Festival Pattern Group Rexine
- Object name(s):
- textile sample; textile sample
- Brief description:
- Sample of 'REXINE' wallcovering, Insulin 8.25, nitrcellulose-coated fabric, stencil-printed. Nested hexagonal motif pattern surrounded by circles, designed from the basic structure of insulin, from Dorothy Hodgkin's crystallography, designer Charles C. Garnier, manufactured by ICI Leathercloth Division, Hyde, Cheshire, England, 1950-1951, 183 x 155 mm. Material used for the entrance to the 'Stop Press' section of the Science Exhibition at the Science Museum. Part of a collection of 83 samples designed for the 1951 Festival of Britain, based on X-ray crystallographic pattern.
- Collection:
- Science Museum Group
- Associated concept:
- sample
- Associated person:
- Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin
- Person's association:
- association
- Credit line:
- Gift of Dr. Helen Dick Megaw
- Material:
- plastic (unidentified)
- Material:
- paper (fibre product)
- Object name:
- textile sample; textile sample
- Object production date:
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1950
- Date - latest:
- 1951
- Object production date:
- Date - association:
- made
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1950
- Date - latest:
- 1951
- Object production person:
- ICI Leathercloth Division; Garnier, Charles C
- Object production place:
- England, United Kingdom
- Other number:
- 1976-644/1
- Other number type:
- accession number
- Responsible department/section:
- SCM - Experimental Chemistry
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/2bf03c90-2014-37af-a69e-f2f1b4040cb0
Use licence for this record: CC BY
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/2bf03c90-2014-37af-a69e-f2f1b4040cb0, Science Museum Group, CC BY
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