Sensational Dried Flowers: Make Arrangements So Beautiful They Look Fresh
Posted on Feb 21, 2010 under dried flowers | 5 Comments
Product Description
From an expert floral artist comes the first comprehensive book on drying flowers with silica gel. This lavish volume offers detailed techniques for cutting flowers, setting up a workspace, accumulating tools, and dealing with problem insects. Complete materials lists and step-by-step instructions guide readers through sensational design projects, including:
-Essence of Spring Wall Hanging
-Garden-Variety Ginger Jar
-Magnolia Leaf Wreath
-Chris… More >>
Sensational Dried Flowers: Make Arrangements So Beautiful They Look Fresh
February 21st, 2010 at 6:16 pm
A really excellent book with extensive information about how to dry flowers in several different ways. Detailed instructions on how to store flowers and what problems to watch out for.
There are also excellent sections on how to make a wreath from scratch, how to create a wide variety of stunning displays with detailed instructions for each. The book is packed with instructive diagrams and well composed photographs of floral displays. If you want just one book on drying flowers this would be the one to pick.
Rating: 5 / 5
February 21st, 2010 at 8:35 pm
This is a beautiful book with wonderful how-to illustrations. The pictures and arrangement ideas are pretty and creative.
Rating: 5 / 5
February 21st, 2010 at 11:21 pm
Very nicely put together, with lots of good ideas on arrangements and how to dry flowers. I can’t wait to try it!
Rating: 5 / 5
February 22nd, 2010 at 1:34 am
This is a new hobby for me and I found the Book beautifully illustrated and easy to understand. The author covers a variety of subjects related to drying flowers such as tips on how to display the attractively and creatively after drying. She also has some chapters on how containers, from old boxes to odd-shaped baskets can serve as a base for your dried floral arrangement. She also included many names of flowers that can be successfully dried as well as a suggested timetable since flowers have different moisture content. One problem I had was finding Silica Jel in large quantities locally. If would have been helpful to have this info included in book. I did find a source in California however.
Rating: 5 / 5
February 22nd, 2010 at 4:13 am
I am not your typical crafty husband. I can easily pass by the craft section of the store without feelings of remorse. However, while waiting for my wife, I picked up this book and started looking through it. It only took a few moments of looking at the tools of the trade page to get me interested. Pliers, clother pins, and glue guns…I could really get interested in something that started off with these items. I purchased the book and asked my wife where we could buy Silica gel at 9:30 in the evening. I found the examples and pictorial instructions most helpful and my results actually looked like the pictures. I can not claim to have produced the arrangements as glorious as those pictured in Ms. Davis’ book, but I was very proud of them and found them to last much longer than expected. I would recommend this book to the expert and the novice. It has something for each category. I even went to meet Ms. Davis at a book signing. Her techniques in flower drying are most remarkable.
Rating: 5 / 5