![Design for Armstrong sundial, National Trust, Cragside](https://amazon.clikpic.com/davidedwick/images/National_Trust_Cragside_dial_design_710C0554-1EC9-D45B-1C85B8B8C5C4ECFE.jpg)
This design was commissioned by the National Trust to mark the retirement of long-serving head gardener Andrew Sawyer.
I did the calculations in Excel and had them checked by expert dialler Tony Moss. I used Illustrator for the 'delineation'. The style of Lord Armstrong's capital A, and the little flower motif attached to each half-hour line, were taken from engraved cutlery preserved at Cragside.
The Latin means 'Strength in Arms, Strength in Horticulture'
This design was used to prepare a photographic resist for the etching process, the lines bitten in deep for durability, and the whole given a light brown patination before a coating of wax, to postpone oxidation.