On Friday,
31st August, some Friends attended Riverside Museum for breakfast,
bacon or egg rolls and tea and coffee. We were then addressed by Curator Neil Johnson-Symington
on the subject of Dazzle painting. This was a wide ranging talk about camouflage. Not only did
we hear about dazzle painting on ships to foil the German submarines but also
about the use of pattern and colour by animals, birds and butterflies to
distract their predators.
Members will
remember that we aided the purchase of the diaries of Thomas Cairns
Livingstone. In these he recorded seeing the dazzle ships at anchor in the
Clyde and we saw some of his sketches.
The display
at Riverside is well worth a visit and we received a warm welcome from all
staff.
