Silk Flowers

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Award-winning author Sally Harper Kenn shows, with clear step-by-step photographs and stunning model photography, how to make five different silk the rose (with two techniques the traditional method, and a special quick method that she has developed), a poppy, an anemone, a peony and a narcissus or daffodil - the flowers she is most often requested to make in her day-to-day work as an award-winning milliner. By learning how to make them yourself, you ll be able to transform any hat or headpiece into a work of art. Silk flowers can also be used as stand-alone brooches, as matching corsages, as fascinators or adornments. A must for anyone interested in DIY fashion and crafts. Learning how to make your own silk flowers means you can accurately choose exact colours to match an outfit or hat a huge asset. And you can use real silk, not the inferior quality fabric which many shop-bought silk flowers are made from, even the really expensive ones. The book also contains full details of the tools and equipment you'll need, and where to find them (with worldwide suppliers listed).