Upper Teesdale - pollen analysis/textile

Following making my Drumburgh Moss textile piece - based on pollen analysis in a peat core click here and here for an explanation ...I have now completed a similar piece of work based on pollen analysis  from 'Red Sike Moss in Upper Teesdale (Turner, J., Hewetson, V. P., Hibbert, F. A., Lowry, K. H., Chambers, C., 1973. The History of the Vegetation and Flora of Widdybank Fell and Cow Green Reservoir Basin, Upper Teesdale. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Biological Sciences, Vol, 265: 870, pp. 327-408.)'. Having lived in Upper Teesdale this area is very special to me and we still visit regularly. We visited Red Sike last year click here for the walk  and I look forward to going back soon, ideally with the textile piece, to photograph it insitu, - although given it's size (116cm x 30cm) and the wind up there maybe not! 

The site.

Pollen analysis from Turner, J., Hewetson, V. P., Hibbert, F. A., Lowry, K. H., Chambers, C., 1973. The History of the Vegetation and Flora of Widdybank Fell and Cow Green Reservoir Basin, Upper Teesdale. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Biological Sciences, Vol, 265: 870, pp. 327-408.

Working notes ..and below. 

and the textile interpretation...

The fabrics were printed with the relevant pollen grains before being over-dyed. All the measurements of the different layers and respective boundaries are in proportion to the core samples.They were then patched, some applique was added and then machine stitched. The iconic Spring Gentian, that is still present in Upper Teesdale, was used as a symbol to unify and lift the colour of  the piece and its disintegration down the piece represents change in time. 

Detail and below: