Beauty Everlasting - Dried and Pressed Flowers - Learning the Ancient Art of Drying and Pressing Flowers and Creating Things of Beauty
Mar 2016 · Mendon Cottage Books
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Table of Contents
Introduction
How to Skeletonize Leaves
Drying Flowers Naturally
Traditional Drying with Sand
Preparing Your Flowers for Drying
Two Ways of Drying Flowers – Face up and Face Down
Dry Filler Items
Drying with Silica Gel
How to Prevent Over – Drying
Air Drying Methods and Glycerin
Glycerin
Assembling Your Flowers
Dried Flower Projects
Flower Frame
Flower and Herb Leaf Ideas
Appendix
Conclusion
How to Make a Rose Potpourri
Crystallized Violets
Author Bio
Publisher
Introduction
The art of floral preservation has been en vogue for millenniums, all over the world, in some form or the other. You may have heard of dried flowers, dried herbs, dried seeds, bark, roots, and even potpourri. The only reason why I would want to live in the age of Cleopatra is that the ancient Egyptians knew all about a flower preservation method with which flowers kept their original color, shape, and looks for more than 6 months after they had been cut. Cleopatra’s rooms were full of these flowers.
Unfortunately, we have lost this method of preserving flowers, with the burning of the library at Alexandria. However, even up to 1638, Signor Ferrari living in Siena – Italy – described how flowers could be preserved and kept everlasting and alive.
Nevertheless, the flowers that we dry today do not have their original color not do they have the rich feel of a thing alive. What we have is something mummified because it has been dried in sand and silica gel.
When I was a child, I asked my science teacher to give me a little bit of silica gel because I wanted to preserve all the flowers in our garden in all their colors, and that nice gentleman told me that the colors changed and turn brown, when the water content was removed from that particular plant. I believe that was the first disappointment in my young life, because I wanted all of those colors and their shapes to last forever. But, well, that secret has gone with the ancient Egyptians.
Nevertheless, today we are drying flowers, through air drying processes, and this book is going to tell you all about how you can create things of beauty from dried flowers, and anything natural, which you can dry and turn into a thing of beauty and a joy forever.
Introduction
How to Skeletonize Leaves
Drying Flowers Naturally
Traditional Drying with Sand
Preparing Your Flowers for Drying
Two Ways of Drying Flowers – Face up and Face Down
Dry Filler Items
Drying with Silica Gel
How to Prevent Over – Drying
Air Drying Methods and Glycerin
Glycerin
Assembling Your Flowers
Dried Flower Projects
Flower Frame
Flower and Herb Leaf Ideas
Appendix
Conclusion
How to Make a Rose Potpourri
Crystallized Violets
Author Bio
Publisher
Introduction
The art of floral preservation has been en vogue for millenniums, all over the world, in some form or the other. You may have heard of dried flowers, dried herbs, dried seeds, bark, roots, and even potpourri. The only reason why I would want to live in the age of Cleopatra is that the ancient Egyptians knew all about a flower preservation method with which flowers kept their original color, shape, and looks for more than 6 months after they had been cut. Cleopatra’s rooms were full of these flowers.
Unfortunately, we have lost this method of preserving flowers, with the burning of the library at Alexandria. However, even up to 1638, Signor Ferrari living in Siena – Italy – described how flowers could be preserved and kept everlasting and alive.
Nevertheless, the flowers that we dry today do not have their original color not do they have the rich feel of a thing alive. What we have is something mummified because it has been dried in sand and silica gel.
When I was a child, I asked my science teacher to give me a little bit of silica gel because I wanted to preserve all the flowers in our garden in all their colors, and that nice gentleman told me that the colors changed and turn brown, when the water content was removed from that particular plant. I believe that was the first disappointment in my young life, because I wanted all of those colors and their shapes to last forever. But, well, that secret has gone with the ancient Egyptians.
Nevertheless, today we are drying flowers, through air drying processes, and this book is going to tell you all about how you can create things of beauty from dried flowers, and anything natural, which you can dry and turn into a thing of beauty and a joy forever.
About the author
John Davidson
Born and raised in Wyoming and Canada on Ranches. Studied at Utah State University and taught drafting at Bridgerland Applied Technology College for 20 years. Own and run several businesses, an architectural design business, a web design business and a Sawmill business. Married to Karla for over 30 years and have 4 great kids, living in Mendon, Utah.Rate this ebook
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