Tulle Embroidery with Natural Flowers and Plants
How to Dry Your Own Flowers
A course by Olga Prinku, Embroidery Artist
About the video: How to Dry Your Own Flowers
Overview
“In this lesson, you will learn about the three basic techniques of drying I like to use: pressing, air-drying, and the silica method. I will also teach you which flowers are best suited to which method. ”
In this video lesson Olga Prinku addresses the topic: How to Dry Your Own Flowers, which is part of the Domestika online course: Tulle Embroidery with Natural Flowers and Plants. Let your creativity blossom by embroidering complex botanical compositions using dry flowers, foliage and natural materials.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, we will learn the three methods that I like to use to dry my flowers. The air drying method, the silicone method and the pressing flower method. Some varieties of flowers are suitable to certain methods. Some are suitable to both. I will show you which ones and explain why. Varieties like Statice, straw flowers, acryclinium you can easily dry by hanging upside down in a dark space. with more delicate flowers, like cornflowers, poppies, calendula you would want to use a desiccant or a silica method And of course, we can all remember at some point in our childhood, taking a le...”
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Course summary for: Tulle Embroidery with Natural Flowers and Plants
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DIY, Embroidery, Floral & Plant Design, Textile Design
Olga Prinku
A course by Olga Prinku
Olga Prinku is a Moldavian embroidery artist, currently living in the UK countryside. While studying graphic design at the Cumbria Institute of the Arts in England, she discovered her love for crafts through upholstery, jewelry making, and screen printing courses. She then started experimenting with embroidery and organic materials, and quickly gained wide recognition on social media, with almost 200K followers on Instagram.
Olga has collaborated with brands like Anthropologie, 3.PARADIS, Ruth Eaton London and Swarovski. Her flowers-on-tulle work has been featured in a range of online, print and televised media internationally. From Casa Facile in Italy to Architectural Digest in the US. She has also published her own book on the craft: Dried Flower Embroidery: An Introduction to the Art of Flowers on Tulle.
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