Ikebana For Your Dinner Table ( Flower Arrangements)
by Tarla Dalal
23 Aug 2012
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Ranjana tulsyan shows here how to use the japanese art of flower decoration to create a captivating arrangement.
Ikebana For Your Dinner Table ( Flower Arrangements) recipe - How to make Ikebana For Your Dinner Table ( Flower Arrangements)
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Makes 1 ikebana
Things You Will Need
4 mini anthuriums
5 small chrysanthemums
2 fern fronds
1 thick stem
pin holder
soaked floral foam (approx. 1 inch high)
plate ( 10 inches in diameter)
red and green beads
clear adhesive tape
wire
pliers and secateurs
Method
- Method
- Take a 22-inch long wire. Alternately thread five green and four red beads onto the wire.
- Twist the wire ends.
- Form a triangular shape.
- Attach a short piece of the thick stem with the help of clear adhesive tape.
- Similarly prepare two more triangles ( each with 19-inch long wire).
- Place the pin holder in the center.
- Firmly place the soaked foam on the pin holder.
- Bend the wire.
- Fix the largest triangle into the soaked foam.
- Similarly fix the remaining two triangles.
- Fix three anthuriums on the triangle (one anthurium at the back).
- Fix the remaining anthurium in front of the triangles.
- Take two small fern fronds and remove the lower leaflets.
- Fix the fronds to the arrangement.
- Mask the foam with the chrysanthemums and arrange the beads.
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