Dried Flower Wreaths: What all do you need for making a wreath?
By now you have already have a little idea about the art of wreath-making, right? So obviously you know what all are the requirements for making a wreath. Come on; let’s recapitulate all those ones again in a detailed zest.
To start with you need a wreath base. A Styrofoam wreath may work but a better option is always to use a grapevine wreathe as the base. In case you don’t want to buy one from the florist’s shop you can make one yourself by clipping a few long vines from the backyard.
The next criteria are dried flowers and preserved leaves. The fun with preserved leaves is that they are at the same time real and beautiful as they retain the original tint, colour and lustre.
What comes next? Can you guess? They are the silk garlands. Primarily composed of artificial leaf garlands these are intended to add ambience to the wreath, both in terms of colour and width.
Another very exciting constituent are the paper ribbons. These are easily available in the market. But while using them handle with real care, unroll the coils of paper ribbon very gently or else they can get smashed or broken.
Now, it’s time for the floral picks. These can be of various kinds, like if you are making them at home make use of wheat clusters or dried flowers or little pine cones and wire them around the wreath base in small bunches. Floral picks look great when accentuated on and help add the nerve of the particular festivity to the wreath.
You want your wreath to look real good right? So it’s better if you can add some more floral decorations to your creation. A great idea would be to use a bunch of silver or copper toned fall floral picks and add them to the wreath to create that flavor akin to the winter or Fall Season.
Other than these primary requirements some other tit-bits would be some florist’s wire, ribbons and bows and pipe cleaners. You can get hold of floral wires in paddles from the market.
A little tip: Preferably use thinner wires as they are more flexible and easily twistable.
So hopefully now you have a concretized idea about what all you need to make a wreath. Next time you make one expectantly you will not miss on anything.
