Artificial Flowers and fabrics

When I was creating fabric flowers, I had to investigate the structure of flowers.


While investigating, I came across an article in Wikipedia about artificial flowers and the many different materials used.


Silk flowers more importantly were created due to the fact they looked more life-like in comparison to other materials. 


There were other materials used like soap, clay, polyester, nylon/stocking material, glass and plastic.


Oh to be a crafter in the ancient times. Where you relied on just your creative spirit and ingenuity to make artificial flowers hehehe.

 ? Did you know that fabric flowers can also be made out
of flax too!

Anyway, there are several different places to find your fabrics. I know for a fact that back in the old days they would have recycled a lot of the resources. 


I mean just watching the movie 'The Wind In The Willows' where the character Scarlet became so poor she uses the drapes to make the most beautiful dress I've ever seen her wear. 


Makes you wonder how many drapes you've thrown out or sold when you could have made millions of fabric flowers out of it. But not only fabric flowers it could be anything really.


Just something to think about next time you need to find fabric for any crafting project.


Livy.