The Giant Flower Press is also a great educational tool for children, allowing them to learn about the natural world and the process of preserving flowers. These include floristry shears for cutting your samples, wildflower seeds to grow your own future pressings and the National Trust’s book of Britain’s Wild Flowers so you can immerse yourself in the folklore and traditions of our native flora. x 180mm Decorate greetings cards, wedding invitations, notepaper, bookmarks, picture frames, candles, paperweights and lampshades with your own pressed flowers. The wood on this item is bare but can be varnished or finished with beeswax to provide a durable finish; please choose the option you prefer.

Once engraved we hand sand and lacquer the wood and then assemble with two sheets of recycled cardboard and four sheets of high quality blotting paper, all held together with coach bolts, wing nuts and washers. A flower press is a wonderful way to capture the beauty of nature, to create floral art or to use in flower craft projects. I have not yet examined the results of the Pressing, but very much hope that the Splendid Autumnal Colours may be mostly preserved for further decorative purposes and memories and magic.Lay the flowers between two sheets of blotting paper sandwiched between the cardboard and tighten wing nuts evenly and leave for two to three weeks before they are ready to be mounted onto clean paper for framing. This large flower press allows you space to build up your collection, create substantial artworks by pressing larger, frame-filling flowers and foliage, and to preserve ‘roots-and-all’ samples. in thickness and is made up of 3 layers, therefore once laser cut the holes in the edges can get exposed which will look like gaps in the edge, these can be filled with a wood filler.

There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. Set includes wooden front and back board, 8 sheets of card, 14 blotting paper sheets, 4 bolts, 4 wing nuts, 4 washers and instructions. Our handcrafted heirloom large wooden flower presses in a beautiful wild meadow flowers design are made for budding botanists and nature-lovers of all ages to preserve blooms, leaves, seaweed and nature finds! Disclaimer: Etsy assumes no responsibility for the accuracy, labelling, or content of sellers' listings and products.Use them to decorate your home, create unique gifts for loved ones, or incorporate them into your craft projects.