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Dried Pressed Flowers |
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The art of drying and pressing flowers is an ancient art. Since the Victorian age women have been using dried pressed flowers skillfully as items of decoration. Almost every one of us has once pressed a flower as memorabilia or for the purpose of beautification. Most of these have been the first flowers that have been gifts of a young and innocent love.
Such amateur techniques of flower pressing were charming in the Victorian age, but nowadays there are better techniques for flower pressing. Creating dried pressed flowers is fairly simple and has the makings for a great hobby. Making dried pressed flowers is a fun and creative craft, where you can let your imagination run free. |
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Beautiful dried pressed flowers are used for decorating telephone directories, greeting cards, pictures and photo albums. There is no end to the numerous ways with which you can use dried pressed flowers. They can also be used to adorn candles, envelops, lampshades, bags and letter pads. Basically anything can be artistically decorated using beautiful dried pressed flowers; the only thing you need is an eye for detail and design.
While making creations of dried pressed flowers you should not limit yourself only to dried flowers; there are number of other material which can add beauty to your dried pressed flower creation. You can press pretty leaves, tendrils, ferns, stamens, certain types of grass, some seeds, etc. You should combine all of these materials to make an aesthetic dried pressed flower arrangement. The important thing to remember is not to overdo or use any material in excess. A balance of contrast and complement should be brought into the creation.
Using tendrils and leaves introduces different textures and shapes to the dried pressed flower decoration. It also gives a natural look seeing pretty tendrils artistically snaking around a flower instead of a single pressed flower.
The most popular technique to press flowers is using sheets of padded press boards in between thin wooden ply wood sheets. Once these are stacked up you can place the material to be pressed in between them and add pressure. The flowers and leaves should be dry in a week or so, they should then be removed using a blunt knife.
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