Preserve Your Posies Vintage How to Dry Flowers Guide Craft Instruction Book

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Craft Book: Preserve Your Posies
The Fascinating Art of Preserving Flowers... by Artis
1972 Plantabbs Corp.
16 Pages
Preserve the Spring beauty, color and richness of your favorite garden flowers, to arrange and decorate with, throughout the year.
By a very simple process you may dry and preserve your favorite garden blooms and other posies, plus weeds, leaves and grasses from the woods, beach and mountains.
There are 4 general methods of preserving flowers and foliage (1) through drying (2) pressing (3) hanging, and (4) absorption. The first 3 methods remove moisture from the flowers. The fourth method, a process of absorbing glycerine into the stem and leaves and retaining a softness and flexibility to the leaves.
Each flower, with its varied and unique plant processes, reacts differently to the above methods. Each method will be explained and the suggested procedures for working with the most popular flowers and blooms, will be given. But, more than that, you will learn that preserving flowers is an art and a craft that involves play, experimenting and testing. You will receive the tremendous satisfaction that comes from creating beauty and being involved in something that you can accomplish yourself.