ARTE FLORAL

If you love flowers but don't know where to start, this book by Clara Sanz is your clear and straightforward guide to enjoying them at home all year round in different ways: fresh, dried, or preserved. With this manual, you will go from being a flower lover to a true botanical craft artist: you will learn how to make a good selection, prepare the material, preserve the flowers so that the beauty of your work lasts, learn the main fundamentals of floral composition, and carry out 12 different and very special projects — bouquets, flower arrangements, combs, hairpins, tiaras, crowns, vases, domes, centerpieces... One for each month of the year. In its pages you will find: • A guide to 20 foolproof flowers, available at florists all year round • Principles of floral composition and design • Care of fresh flowers: why some last longer and how to treat them according to their water needs. • Step-by-step conservation and preservation techniques: air drying, in a vase, with silica gel and with glycerin. • Essential materials and tools: what you really need and what you can avoid buying. Floral art is a language: it decorates, but above all it speaks. This work offers you the keys to mastering it. "This book is, at heart, an invitation. To look at nature calmly. To learn to observe the details. And to let flowers accompany you, as they have done me, in all stages of life." Clara Sanz