The unusual, bordering on the impossible…..
The original paperweights were produced in 1968 by Barry Needham in Margam, just outside Port Talbot, as a form of therapy for his muscular dystrophy in response to a challenge laid down by a friend to encapsulate a dandelion clock.
The designs were later refined by his brother, Alun Needham, into today’s products. Still made in South Wales a clear polyester resin, containing a UV filter to stop fading, is used to embed the botanical specimens without destroying them, and the polished globe shape allows the specimen to be seen in its beauty from all angles.
This paperweight incorporates a nigella flower rather than a dandelion clock. Nigella damascena has been grown in English cottage gardens since Elizabethan times and is commonly called love-in-a-mist.
65mm diameter, presented in a printed cardboard gift box.