I call my craft ‘flowers-on-tulle’ or ‘dried flower embroidery’ – it’s like traditional embroidery, but using flowers, foliage and other natural plant-based materials as your thread.
I’m not a trained botanist or a florist – unless you count a summer job in a flower shop – but I love plants, I have a sense of wonder about the natural world, and I have always enjoyed crafting and making. If that is also true of you, then that’s all you need to try it yourself. Flowers-on-tulle embroidery came from my love of making, combined with my obsessive habit of bringing nature into my home. It could be a bare branch ripped from a tree by the wind in spring – I would put it in a vase, and marvel as the flowers blossomed. It could be a piece of driftwood washed up
