Press rewind
My 91-year-old grandmother recently gave me a book on Australian butterflies that had belonged to my great-aunt; if still alive, my great-aunt would be 98. I opened the book to find various pressed flowers and a butterfly within its pages.
What stories do these little flowers and butterfly have to tell? I wonder where and when they were collected.
In this digital era of fast media with millions of printed images and more at our fingertips, it’s nice to step back in time and discover the age-old art of flower pressing.
THE HISTORY
This simple art can be traced at least as far back as ancient Egypt:
