Hi-tech Embroidery

Embroidery has an unfairly old-fashioned image, probably because of the pious verses of the 19^th century associating needlework with womanly virtue. So when we were developing the exhibition Extreme Textiles: Designing for High Performance, we were especially excited to find this embroidered implant. It may look like a doily, but it is a serious piece of biomedical engineering. Manufactured by Pearsall’s Ltd.