In collaboration with National Geographic, Mottahedeh has recently release a new pattern called "SNOWFLAKE" and we're featuring it this month as our Pattern of the Month.
Imagine a candlelight dinner, a holiday gathering or an after snowman outing with a hot cup of cocoa. National Geographic's photo archive is the inspiration for this delicate design. Each actual snowflake was originally hand painted in icy tones of blue and silver.
Wilson Bentley(1865–1931) of Jericho, Vermont,was a farmer and a highly-regarded amateur meteorologist who photographed snow—or more precisely, thousands of individual snow crystals. Drawn to their beauty and seemingly endless variety, Bentley isolated and captured these crystals in simple, stark photographs, creating his first successful image—a “photomicrograph” of a single snow crystal—on January 15, 1885. The creamy, matte of the black velvet fabric proved to be the perfect backdrop to showcase the beautiful, feather-like crystals. Soon, his work came to the attention of National Geographic, and Bentley published two articles—in January 1904 and January 1923—that showcased his extraordinary photography while also illustrating the basic science of snow.
