About Artificial Flowers

Artificial Flowers and imitations of natural flowers are sometimes made for scientific purposes (as the collection of glass flowers at Harvard University , which illustrates the flora of the United States ), but more often as articles of decoration and ornament.

A large variety of materials have been used in their manufacture by different peoples at different timespainted linen and shavings of stained horn by the Egyptians, gold and silver by the Romans, rice-paper by the Chinese, silkworm cocoons in Italy, the plumage of highly colored birds in South America, wax, small tinted shells. More recent production methods use carved or formed soap, nylon netting stretched over wire frames, ground clay and mass produced injection plastic mouldings.

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