Flower Arranging, Flower Crafts - General & Miscellaneous, Dried & Pressed Flowers, Decorating - General & Miscellaneous, Nature Crafts
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Overview
In Simple Floral Displays, author Jenny Raworth brings nature into your home with easy-to-make floral arrangements and decorations. From simple grasses and seedheads to berries, twigs, pinecones, and flowers. Raworth successfully teaches you how to blend materials to achieve a simple, natural-looking display. Projects take advantage of today's sophisticated range of artificial fruits, flowers and foliage, as well as offer many opportunities to blend fresh items from your garden with artificial products to achieve a lasting display. In addition to traditional centerpieces, you'll find ideas for elegant garlands, rustic wreaths, and understated mantlepiece decorations.Raworth's basic principles are to keep colors unified and the form simple, while adding texture, depth and shape through a variety of ingredients. With this book as your inspiration, you can freshen your home with simple displays that look natural, even if they are not!
Author Biography: Jenny Raworth is a highly successful flower designer and teacher. She gives regular courses in both dried and fresh flower arranging from her home in Twickenham, England and has had her work featured in many magazines and gardening books. Raworth worked for several years with floral expert and designer Malcolm Hillier.
Book Details
Published
September 1, 2002
Publisher
Northword Press
Pages
80
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781589230774