Vintage 1970s Craft Book - The Art of Handmade Flowers - Miyuki and Tomoko Iida - 1971 First Edition naruralist writing Afghanistan and Italy

Afghanistan and Italy

You'll want to provide a cocktail size napkin for each guest

Considered now

Meant for petite plants (like mini succulents or air plants)

by the brook

Vintage 1970s Craft Book - The Art of Handmade Flowers - Miyuki and Tomoko Iida - 1971 First Edition naruralist writing Afghanistan and ItalyNo part of nature is more lovely than flowers, but since they fade and die, it is only natural that we should want to fix them in some enduring form. (From the Preface) {HISTORY} What started as an interest in dress decorations in the 1930s, bloomed (no pun intended!) into a passionate life long career for floral artist Miyuki Iida (1903 2007). Developing a way to arrange flowers made by hand from cloth, Miyuki evolved her personal dress accessories