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Dried Pressed Flowers: History of Drying Flowers

May 19, 2008 |

 

Whenever you decide to decorate your house, fresh flower is the material that you probably think of. Did you know that the floral arrangements for decorating your house can have even a longer shelf life? Just settle for dried flowers and see what a magic it can create in the usual stereotype decorations inside your house. People around the world have been using dried flowers for creating different types of floral arrangements for quite sometime. The act of drying flowers by pressing method became popular during the Victorian times.

 

Japanese initiated the art of making Oshibana art with the help of colored papers and pressed flowers. In this art a single leaf is used to make a whole tree and flower petals are pasted to make mountains. Petals, leafs and other parts of a tree or plant is pasted on a piece of board and on the board, different kinds of pictures take shape.   

 

In the prehistoric era, people in the Middle East used to preserve flowers. A skeleton of a man from the pre historic era has been found holding a mantle made of wild flowers. These flowers were preserved so meticulously that even the pollens of those flowers help scientists to tell what kind of flowers they are.

 

During the period of the sixteenth century the Elizabethan Age was gradually waning away from Europe. Naturally the typical aspects of the fashion of Elizabethan era started getting transformed. Lower neckline of woman’s dresses and soft lacy collars were adorned with nicely preserved flowers. The funniest part is that world fashion underwent a great transformation, but flowers have always been a part of fashion in one way or the other. Using flowers, at times preserved flowers became almost synonymous to looking fashionable. People started preserving their favorite flowers that they can keep it handy for future use.

 

In the Egyptian Civilization, preserving flowers used to be considered as a serious art and they preserved elaborate floral arrangements and garlands in these methods. During the medieval period monks dried flowers for making medicines. With time drying flower became necessary for preserving the nice floral centerpieces in houses and offices.

 

 


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