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Lichen inspired textile Lichen inspired textile Lichen mimic Ghost of Findlater Castle
Textile inspired by
lichens on limestone.
Liz Brooke Ward. 		Textile inspired by
Physcia and other lichens.
Liz Brooke Ward. 		Caterpillar camouflage.
Evolved by nature,
inspired by lichens.
Scalloped Hazel caterpillar
Odontopera bidentata
Katie Grundy.		 The ghost of
Findlater Castle.
Lecanora rupicola
Mike Sutcliffe.
Lichen inspired textile Lichen inspired textile Lichen inspired textile Lichen inspired textile
Textile inspired by
lichens.
Liz Brooke Ward. 		Textile inspired by
lichens.
Liz Brooke Ward. 		Textile inspired by
Nephroma and other lichens.
Liz Brooke Ward. 		Textile inspired by
lichens on limestone.
Liz Brooke Ward.
Lichen cobble in Scottish Parliament building Farne Islands lichen technicolour fence post stone hand on grave stone
Lichen cobble,
Scottish Parliament building,
Edinburgh.
About £20 million per lichen.
Money well spent.
Mike Sutcliffe		 Farne Islands puffin colony
with Caloplaca verruculifera
M Sutcliffe 		Technicolour fence post
Rackwick Bay, Hoy.
Katie Grundy 		Tomb hand
Logie Kirk, Stirling
Viv Lisewski
Brooch-sized lichen rock Brooch-sized lichen rock Mary in lichen clothes Lichens on slate
Lichen brooches found on
cliff top, Shetland.
Derek Mayes. 		Lichen brooch found on
cliff top, Shetland.
Derek Mayes. 		Lecanora rupicola on clothes
of Mary.
Saint Buboc churchyard,
Bretagne, France.
Gerhard Neuwirth. 		Parmelia saxatilis

F G Jones.
Kielder Forest lichen garden Cloud-shaped white lichen from Grand Canyon Xanthoria euphoria Lichen mosaic
Kielder forest lichen garden.
Northumberland.
Mike Sutcliffe. 		Grand Canyon lichen clouds.
Kaibab Trail. Mike Sutcliffe. 		Xanthoria euphoria.
Harbour wall. North Berwick,
Scotland. Peter Doe. 		Lichen mosaic. Chronkley bridge,
Teesdale, England.
Mike Sutcliffe.
Landscape with Verrucaria mucosa Torridon coast boulder with Tephromela atra, Ramalina siliquosa, Anaptychia runcinata, Xanthoria parietina. Sycamore festooned with lichens Tree lungwort cascade
Landscape with
Verrucaria mucosa.
Redpoint Beach near Gairloch,
Scotland. Mike Sutcliffe. 		Torridon coast boulder.
Dave Genney.		 Sycamore festooned with
Usnea, Evernia, Parmelia,
and Hypogymnia.
Ness Islands, Inverness,
Scotland. David Clarke.		 Tree lungwort cascade.
Dave Genney.
Gairngorms boulder RMNP boulder, Colorado Granite outcrop, Boulder CO Teesdale boulder
Granite boulder,
Cairngorms, Scotland.
Nick Cutler		 Granite boulder in grassland,
Rocky Mountain National Park.
Nick Cutler		 Granite outcrop
in pine forest,
Boulder, Colorado.
Nick Cutler. 		Teesdale boulder,
northeast England.
Mike Sutcliffe.
lichen covering 'James' on tombstone kilmory churchyard rusty Pertusaria corallina 1 Lichens on slate
James.
Kilmory churchyard
(Lecanora rupicola).
Mike Sutcliffe.		 Kilmory churchyard,
Arran, Scotland.
Mike Sutcliffe.		 Rusty Pertusaria,
Northumberland, England.
Mike Sutcliffe. 		Penrhyn slate quarry,
Bethesda, Wales.
F G Jones.