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Vase with dried flowers as a letterbox gift. Dried flowers are completely hip again! This letterbox gift comes with a bunch of dried flowers, wooden base and a glass tube where the flowers can be used in. The vase with dried flowers as a letterbox gift can be used in a wide variety of ways: as a business gift, staff gift or as a home-work gift.
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Dried flowers through the ages
The use and processing of living flowers and plants is very old. The ancient cultural peoples, four to five thousand years ago, laid out gardens and used flowers, among other things, in the cult of the dead. Whether they already dried flowers is not known, but we can assume this. Presumably, for example, the Greeks certainly did something along those lines.
In the middle of the last century, fine, dried boxes, flowers and grasses were used for processing boxes, portrait frames and jewellery.
These little bouquets were the beginning. A few years later, the so-called Makart bouquets were launched by the Austrian painter Hans Makart (1840-1884). They were stiff, unnatural dried flower bouquets, intended for the dark and gloomy interiors popular at the time.
It was not until around 1925 that dried flowers started to become known in the Netherlands. Initially, Biedermeier bouquets were mainly made from it. In general, smaller, specially cultivated flower shapes were used for this, which were lightly processed into a round, spherical bouquet. These Biedermeier bouquets are still sometimes made, sold and considered beautiful
Around 1970, more and more types of dried flower arrangements were introduced. But it didn’t stop there; small pottery vases and pots were filled, first on the sideboard, later also on the television. See pictures But it didn’t stop there; small pottery vases and pots were filled, first on the sideboard, later also on the television. Everyone knew the spinning wheel and the cigar shape for against the wall, with a few dried flowers.
Every conceivable object, an old wheelbarrow wheel, plastic vase, glass battery box, and a stump found in the forest were decorated or filled with dried flowers.
Some go even further and make decorations from dried flowers and other materials that hardly have anything to do with dried flowers. These decorations cannot be compared with the dried flower arrangements known to us. They are often completely different, among other things in terms of shape and material processing. They are true works of art, often commissioned and will be mentioned in the same breath as paintings, drawings and etchings.
Dried flowers, in whatever form, are increasingly appreciated. This is also because the range has been expanded over the years with foreign materials. The most strange and exotic dried flowers, fruits, branches and grasses and so on are imported from, for example, Italy, Australia, India, Philippines or South America. With some import materials and a few dried grasses and flowers something very beautiful can be made.
Source: dried flowers