Pressed flower craft consists of drying flower petals and leaves in a flower press to flatten and exclude light and moisture. The pressed items are then used for a variety of craft projects. Wildflowers A flower is the reproductive organ of those plants classified as angiosperms (flowering plants; Division Magnoliophyta). ... Prism splitting light Light is electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength that is visible to the eye or, in a technical or scientific setting, electromagnetic radiation of any wavelength. ... Arts and crafts comprise a whole host of activities and hobbies that are related to making things with ones own hands and skill. ...

Pressing flowers makes them appear flat, and often there is a change in color, ranging from faded colors to greater intensity of color. Color is an important part of the visual arts. ...

The pressed flowers and leaves are often mounted on special paper, such as hand-made paper, Ingres paper, Japanese paper, or paper decorated by marbling. Piece of paper Paper is a thin, flat material produced by the compression of fibres. ... Paper marbling is a technique for producing colorful patterns on paper (or, rarely, on other surfaces) by swirls of paint, traditionally oil-based paint, floating on water. ...

Watercolour washes are sometimes applied to the backing paper before the pressed material is attached to it. Watercolor is a painting technique making use of water-soluble pigments that are either transparent or opaque and are formulated with gum to bond the pigment to the paper. ... The term wash can mean several things: Cleaning A wash is the act of cleaning. ...

It is also possible to mount pressed material on fabrics, such as velvet, silk, linen or cotton. This article is about velvet, the fabric. ... Silk (< OE sioloc probably < L. SERICVS / Gr. ... Torn linen cloth, recovered from the Dead Sea Linen is a material made from the fibers of the flax plant. ... Cotton is a soft fibre that grows around the seeds of the cotton plant, a shrub native to the tropical and subtropical regions of both the Old World and the New World. ...

Petals and leaves can also be applied to wood furnishings by the technique of Decoupage. Decoupage (or découpage) is the art of decorating an object by gluing colored paper bits onto it in combination with special paint effects, gold leaf etc. ...

The craft was very popular in the Victorian era and has experienced a revival in the last 20 years or so. Many books and websites with pictures and instructions have been published on the subject. Queen Victoria (shown here on the morning of her Accession to the Throne, June 20, 1837) gave her name to the historic era. ...

The image below shows a modern interpretation of a Victorian pressed flower sampler. Leaves and petals are used to construct items such as butterflies, animals or floral arrangements which one would find on traditional embroidery samplers. A sampler can be any of the following things: In general, a sampler is any broadly representative cross-section of some collection; for instance, food products are sometimes packaged in samplers containing a variety of chocolates or beers. ... Gold Embroidery Embroidery is an ancient variety of decorative needlework in which designs and pictures are created by stitching strands of some material on to a layer of another material. ...

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External links

• Cards Designed using Pressed Flowers