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    Beauty Everlasting: Dried and Pressed Flowers - Learning the Ancient Art of Drying and Pressing Flowers and Creating Things of Beauty
    Beauty Everlasting: Dried and Pressed Flowers - Learning the Ancient Art of Drying and Pressing Flowers and Creating Things of Beauty
    Beauty Everlasting: Dried and Pressed Flowers - Learning the Ancient Art of Drying and Pressing Flowers and Creating Things of Beauty
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    Beauty Everlasting: Dried and Pressed Flowers - Learning the Ancient Art of Drying and Pressing Flowers and Creating Things of Beauty

    By Dueep Jyot Singh

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    Table of Contents

    Introduction
    How to Skeletonize Leaves
    Drying Flowers Naturally
    Traditional Drying with Sand
    Preparing Your Flowers for Drying
    Two Ways of Drying Flowers – Face up and Face Down
    Dry Filler Items
    Drying with Silica Gel
    How to Prevent Over – Drying
    Air Drying Methods and Glycerin
    Glycerin
    Assembling Your Flowers
    Dried Flower Projects
    Flower Frame
    Flower and Herb Leaf Ideas
    Appendix
    Conclusion
    How to Make a Rose Potpourri
    Crystallized Violets
    Author Bio
    Publisher

    Introduction

    The art of floral preservation has been en vogue for millenniums, all over the world, in some form or the other. You may have heard of dried flowers, dried herbs, dried seeds, bark, roots, and even potpourri. The only reason why I would want to live in the age of Cleopatra is that the ancient Egyptians knew all about a flower preservation method with which flowers kept their original color, shape, and looks for more than 6 months after they had been cut. Cleopatra’s rooms were full of these flowers.

    Unfortunately, we have lost this method of preserving flowers, with the burning of the library at Alexandria. However, even up to 1638, Signor Ferrari living in Siena – Italy – described how flowers could be preserved and kept everlasting and alive.

    Nevertheless, the flowers that we dry today do not have their original color not do they have the rich feel of a thing alive. What we have is something mummified because it has been dried in sand and silica gel.

    When I was a child, I asked my science teacher to give me a little bit of silica gel because I wanted to preserve all the flowers in our garden in all their colors, and that nice gentleman told me that the colors changed and turn brown, when the water content was removed from that particular plant. I believe that was the first disappointment in my young life, because I wanted all of those colors and their shapes to last forever. But, well, that secret has gone with the ancient Egyptians.

    Nevertheless, today we are drying flowers, through air drying processes, and this book is going to tell you all about how you can create things of beauty from dried flowers, and anything natural, which you can dry and turn into a thing of beauty and a joy forever.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMendon Cottage Books
    Release dateMar 17, 2016
    ISBN9781310993084
    Beauty Everlasting: Dried and Pressed Flowers - Learning the Ancient Art of Drying and Pressing Flowers and Creating Things of Beauty

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      Beauty Everlasting - Dueep Jyot Singh

      Beauty Everlasting - Dried and Pressed Flowers

      Learning the Ancient Art of Drying and Pressing Flowers and Creating Things of Beauty

      Dueep Jyot Singh

      Mendon Cottage Books

      Learning Series

      JD-Biz Publishing

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      The information is this book is provided for informational purposes only. The information is believed to be accurate as presented based on research by the author.

      The author or publisher is not responsible for the use or safety of any procedure or treatment mentioned in this book. The author or publisher is not responsible for errors or omissions that may exist.

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      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      How to Skeletonize Leaves

      Drying Flowers Naturally

      Traditional Drying with Sand

      Preparing Your Flowers for Drying

      Two Ways of Drying Flowers – Face up and Face Down

      --Dry Filler Items

      --Drying with Silica Gel

      How to Prevent Over – Drying

      Air Drying Methods and Glycerin

      --Glycerin

      Assembling Your Flowers

      Dried Flower Projects

      --Flower Frame

      Flower and Herb Leaf Ideas

      Appendix

      Conclusion

      --How to Make a Rose Potpourri

      --Crystallized Violets

      Author Bio

      Publisher

      Introduction

      The art of floral preservation has been en vogue for millenniums, all over the world, in some form or the other. You may have heard of dried flowers, dried herbs, dried seeds, bark, roots, and even potpourri. The only reason why I would want to live in the age of Cleopatra is that the ancient Egyptians knew all about a flower preservation method with which flowers kept their original color, shape, and looks for more than 6

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