Making bunches, baskets and wreaths
To be able to start making various decorations from ornamental plants, a properly prepared studio should be available or at least a part of a larger room should be allocated to it. The studio should have a wardrobe and a work table or a tilting table top to replace it. All auxiliary materials are placed in the cabinet, how: 1) tools - scissors, sekatory, knives, razor blades, hammers, pincers, pincers, the hatchet, a sharpening stone; 2) utensils - wire of different thickness, flower cufflinks, heels, string, raffia, cellophane, papier, tissue, ribbons, glue, hoops, sticks, Echidna (kenzany), plasticine, mech, flower pots, baskets and other utensils such as vases, bowls - glass, ceramic, porcelain, clay, stoneware, wooden, bamboo, metal.
All these tools and utensils should be marked on shelves or in drawers and used as needed.
Bundles. The most commonly used flower decorations and the most popular are bouquets. Almost all cut flowers produced in florists are sold in the form of bunches, among which the usual and stylish can be distinguished.
Ordinary bouquets are usually arranged like this, so that they give the impression of naturally arranging flowers and greenery.
Stylish bouquets can be the so-called. Biedermajerowskie with a very compact arrangement of flowers and badges for dresses, the so-called. „corsage”.
Ordinary bouquets are arranged loosely, starting flower arrangement from the highest point and gradually lowering it. For a loose natural layout, flower stalks should be applied obliquely, at different angles and touch in only one place, in which they are to be bound. After arranging the flowers, the bunch is supplemented with greens, by putting asparagus or other sprigs of green among the flowers. The bundle arranged in this way is tied with raffia, with a string or cellophane, quite hard, lest it fall apart.
You can also decorate the bunches with aluminum foil, which covers related places, and a ribbon matched to the color of the flowers, tying a bow.
No wires are used for this type of bundle, their arrangement should be as natural as possible. However, you can use wire when arranging occasional bunches, e.g. wedding, theatrical, funeral parlors etc.. Then it is easier to obtain the desired shape of the bundle and stiffness. For example, the preparation of funeral bouquets often begins with the arrangement of the so-called. primer, which is made from branches of conifers, fern or palm leaves, and also mahogany.
Stylish bouquets, Biedermajerowskie, They are distinguished by a compact arrangement of flowers, which can be arranged tightly around a single central flower or on a cardboard base with holes, in which flowers are put. The bouquets in this style can be flat or raised towards the center, single-color or multi-colored, and the finish is green and a lace frill, ribbons or tulle. The flower stalks are squeezed tightly and wrapped around their entire length with a ribbon. Ribbons of various lengths are loosened from the bundle; flow downwards when held.
In addition to bouquets, various types of pins are often used to decorate an outfit: they can be single flowers with a sprig of greenery or a few flowers and leaves pinned on a wire, rather from plants that are quite hardy, so that they do not wither quickly without water. Camellia leaves are most suitable for this purpose, laurel or Japanese euonymus, and rose flowers, carnations, camellia and orchids.
Several leaves placed individually on the knitting needles are tied together with flowers prepared in the same way, the wires are wrapped with a wax tape, and in its absence with strips of crimped white or green tissue paper. After creating a small, the one-sided bouquet is finished with a sumptuous bow made of a narrow ribbon.
Baskets. The duties of the boucher also include arranging flowers in baskets. Usually circular or oval wicker baskets are used, different sizes, with or without a headband. Recently, in addition to wicker baskets, hollow pieces of birch trunks or bowls of various types and shapes are used, baskets in the shape of nests made of thin branches, etc..
Baskets can be filled with potted plants or cut to size, both blooming, as well as about decorative leaves. The basket is filling up with moss, in which pots with flowers are inserted; the moss should adhere exactly to both the walls of the pot, and to the walls of the basket.
When arranging cut flowers in a basket, a pot or other utensils are placed in it, tightly filling them with moist moss, in which the flowers are attached and the appropriate composition is arranged. Such a basket is finished with greenery, as well as ribbons.
Wreaths They are used to decorate graves, as well as monuments. Making a wreath begins with making a rim of wicker branches or hazel, or - recently - of wire.. Twigs of spruce or thuja are very densely placed on the rim (tui) and fastened with string or wire. This is called. underlay, on which flowers are placed, usually stiffened with wires, by clipping them around the entire circumference of the circle or attaching only in the form of a bundle at the bottom of the rim. Wreaths are finished with sashes - plain or with inscriptions - depending on the circumstances.