Our pattern process starts with natural materials, usually plants, but sometimes also fungi or algae. Our starting material can be samples we have collected in the wild on a nature walk, or plants grown in the greenhouse for research purposes, or even house plants. Depending on the type of image we want to generate, we might process the samples by preserving the tissues in wax to cut very thin slices, or sometimes we might just make slices from fresh material by hand with a razor blade. After cutting the samples they can then be viewed under a microscope, either stained with a dye or unstained. It is from the microscope images of those sections that we create one-of-a-kind Flora-L patterns.
Here comes an example of one of our patterns: