Dried flower farming offers Indian farmers, especially women and youth, a low-cost, sustainable livelihood option. With ...

Another way of displaying dried flowers around your home is to press and frame them in glass. This elegant option gives the petals a chance to shine and holds onto their vibrant colors for quite a ...

Pressing Flowers Like hang drying, pressing flowers is another natural method of preserving blooms. You can frame pressed flowers, add them to stationery, use them as bookmarks or in garlands. Flowers ...

Start with fresh, healthy flowers. Flat flowers like pansies, daisies, and violets press more easily, but thicker ones like ...

Flowers that have just looked or are about to bloom are ideal for air-drying. Some simple steps to take are: 1. Remove excess foliage from below the flower heads as they weaken when they are dry.

Using a dehydrator to dry herbs can take up to 12 hours. If you don’t have a dehydrator, an easy hack is to set your oven to ...

Ruel Flynn suggests that pressed flowers be used to adorn photographs, frame, create holiday ornaments, or decorate cakes and cookies, among the myriad fun DIY projects for which colorful crafts ...

Pressed Ranunculus, sweet peas, a hellebore flower and more are mounted between pieces of glass in a finished work by Lacie RZ Porta, of Framed Florals, in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

Maivie is a pressed flower workshop in Salt Lake City. They have the flowers. They have the frames. All you do is show up and create something beautiful!

Dried flowers can be a hard sell. I learned as much first-hand during a high school summer job as a florist’s assistant. After a customer rebuffed my suggestion to add some stems of purple ...

Line the flowers on newspaper, plain, white paper, tissues or blotting paper (any paper that can absorb moisture) and place another sheet on top. Then, place the flowers in a book and close the book.

Johnson admits that the concept of dried flowers as décor has been around for “thousands of years.” And yet, she’s seen a 27 percent increase in Etsy searches for them over the past three ...