New Product Announcement:
Couture Peacock Blue Feather Filigree Tassel Bridal Shoe Clips
Couture Peacock Blue Feather Filigree Tassel Bridal Shoe Clips
Turn any pumps into hot designer shoes. These couture shoe accessories are great for going out, special occasions, spice up your bridal shoes. : ) They also make a great gift!
Handmade in peacock blue with golden filigree buckle.
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Great Holiday Gift – Handmade Satin Red Rose Hair Clip Brooch Pin
Gorgeous almost open bloom of wine red Bermuda Queen rose custom-made of red satin (fabric number eight from the swatches card to the right.) Looks beautiful worn alone in hair or with a veil or headband.
View a Slide Show of this and other Rose accessories from Floreti Collection.
Dimensions: About 3 inches in diameter and 1 inch high. Set on a colibri hair clip.
Available for purchase here: Red Bermuda Queen Rose Couture Silk Bridal Hair Accessory
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Something Blue Audrey Gardenia Couture Bridal Shoe by floreti.
Audrey Gardenia Bridal Shoe Clips Something Blue
Looking to spice up your favorite pumps or sandals. These versatile Gardenia shoe clips can be clipped to the side, front, shoe-straps or any other way you like.
A set of elegant Audrey Gardenia shoe clips custom-made in a beautiful periwinkle blue silk charmeuse. Middle adorned with indigo blue freshwater pearls, clear and blue Swarovski crystals, set on Sterling Silver wire.
Dimensions: Gardenia blooms are about 2-1/2 inches in diameter and from 3/4 to 1 inch high.
Something Blue Audrey Gardenia Couture Bridal Shoe Clips are available for purchase here:
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I am excited to share with you that our blog is now hosted independently on Floreti web site. We are learning the ins and outs of new blog platform and hope to have it fully running within the next few days.
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I am happy to announce that Floreti Designs™ is now a member of the ETSY WEDDING TEAM! visit our Team blog at EtsyWeddingTeam.blogspot.com. There you will find many unique sources for handmade wedding items from a carefully selected group of the finest wedding artisans on Etsy.
Gorgeous “White Calla Lily Beauty Bridal Tiara” wedding hair accessory handmade by UpfromtheAshes.
Playful “CLAYCRAFT by DECO – Pink Roses, Fuschia Peony Buds and Stephanotis in Embossed Square Tapered Vase“handmade by Dkdesignshawaii. Great for wedding table centerpieces!
Elegant “Bella – Something Blue“ pleated silver satin clutch bag handmade by Leigh-Ann Kline.
Irresistably cute flower girl dress ”Girls Princess Dress” handmade by Cp349
Mesmerizing “STAR custom slim line bridal gown with internal corset” handmade by Gracie’s Treasures.
There are many different accounts of silk flower origin. The one that seems to be most accurate is this art has originated in China with proliferation of silk production.
Chinese legend attributes the wife of mythical Yellow Emperor, Lady Hsi-Ling-Shih, with the introduction of silkworm rearing and the invention of the loom around 3000 BC. Although, there are archeological evidences that sericulture existed as far back as 5000 BC. For thousands of years silk has been used for many different purposes from the creation of exquisite garments, in household, to utilization in medicine.
Silk was also used in silk screen painting or printing. Chinese learned to successfully use dye and ink on silk medium around 400 – 300 BC, during the Zhou dynasty.
Silk flowers are said to have originated around 1500 years ago in the imperial palace, in China. The flowers were created for and worn by the ladies at the palace. In Chinese, silk flowers are called Juanhua.
Closely to 200 BC, Chinese migration to Korea and open trade with Japan greatly influenced Korean and Japanese cultures, especially their artistic expression, even more so, after Japan reopened its border at the end of 11th century AD. Thus, allowing the art of silk flowers to travel to Japan and eventually to Europe, around 1500 – 1700 AD, with a growing trade with Portuguese. Finally, it came to France the heart of fashion then and now. From France this form of art had spread to many other countries.
Today, with technological advances most of silk flowers are made of plastic, polyester, latex and other manmade materials. They are not of real silk even though they are still called “silk flowers”. The flowers are done on the scale of industrial production. Utilizing cutting molds, and press irons. There are very few places left where silk flowers are still done out of natural fibers and all by hand, the way Chinese and Japanese have done it more than 1500 years ago.
Hence, I am proud to bring you luxurious quality and unique design in this timeless form of art – silk flowers.
- Irina Floret
Bibliography
Tregear, Mary. Chinese Art. New York: Thames and Hudson Inc, 1997.
Munsterberg, Hugo. The Arts of Japan an Illustrated History. Rutland: Charles E. Tuttle Company, Inc, 1957.
Stanley-Baker, Joan. Japanese Art. London: Thames and Hudson Inc, 1984.
Internet Sources
http://www.silk-road.com/artl/silkhistory.shtml
http://www.chinaetravel.com/china/fsilkflw.html
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