EVERLASTING WREATH
Bex makes her wreaths in a half-moon shape, which has become her signature style. Here she has used a base of woven and twisted vine stems to create the shape, and then has woven in pink and white dried baby's breath (Gypsophila), fluffy seedheads of old man's beard (Clematis vitalba), and dried heads of Achillea ptarmica ‘The Pearl’. The result is an airy, almost cloud-like, wreath.
Bex Partridge's studio is an ethereal, grotto-like space. Rack upon rack of dried flowers hang down, the petals puckering and twisting as they dry. Xeranthemums crowd one window while single dahlias dangle in front of another. There are delicately hued plant-dyed ribbons draped from a branch, and
