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Pressing a Rose

  • 14-04-2008 4:54pm
    #1
    líreacán
    Closed Accounts Posts: 251 ✭✭


    I am just looking to press one white rose, just wondering what is the best way to do this?


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  • #2
    Das Kitty
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 17,231 Mod ✭✭✭✭Das Kitty


    I've always found roses tricky to press, they seem to have infinite amounts of sap. Is it a bud rose or an open one?

    What I usually do with a bud one is to hang it upside down in the back of the hotpress. It's not flat but it's preserved. I'd be afraid of the petals falling out of an open rose though.

    In general when pressing flowers you can use a stack of heavy books (making sure to protect them with plenty of layers of paper either side. I did notice that Monsoon have a flower press at the moment. Might be worth a look.


  • #3
    líreacán
    Closed Accounts Posts: 251 ✭✭líreacán


    It's very much open...and quite fat. Should I take a couple of layers of petals off and then press it? I read somewhere to stick it in the microwave to dry it out first, do you think this would work? I must check Monsoon, how much are we talking do you know? It's only this one flower that I want to preserve.


  • #4
    Das Kitty
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 17,231 Mod ✭✭✭✭Das Kitty


    Never tried the microwave thing.

    I think the Monsoon press was something like €30.

    I ruined two of my Mum's encyclopaedia pressing a rose before. Oh the trouble I got in.


  • #5
    líreacán
    Closed Accounts Posts: 251 ✭✭líreacán


    Ah well, tis my mum that wants it done, so she can ruin her books all by herself!!!! Thanks a lot, I'll tell her to go stick in between a couple of pages now (with computer paper to each side for protection)!!!


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