Several years ago, I shared how to take an oversized plan vase and lavishly embellish the exterior by way of super easy period inspired ‘rub on transfers’: https://youtu.be/vmqtmL7CBGQ
Designs of the past, as requested by all those who live in gorgeous stately Victorian, Edwardian or Queen Anne styled homes. All I can say about big houses is that the designs need to be big, but here’s a tip from me, if you start with an oversized heavily embellished vase, then half of the work is done. The flower arrangers of that era were into oversized big and lush, packed with flowers and foliage’s of the season. There was not stopping them when it came to further enhancing and if you look hard, you’ll find hidden or prominently featured, birds, butterflies, feather and fruits. The more money the more extravagant especially with what some referred to at the time - as new money!
So, lets leap into designs of the past. The vase is the key to success!
As an aside, the reason I’m using the colour mauve peonies is because I find it fascinating how the colour was invented. Here is a bit of background history on the colour:
Mauve is a pale purple color named after the mallow flower (French: mauve). The first use of the word mauve as a color was in 1796–98 according to the Oxford English Dictionary, but its use seems to have been rare before 1859. Another name for the color is mallow, with the first
recorded use of mallow as a color name in English in 1611.
Mauve contains more gray and more blue than a pale tint of magenta. Many pale wildflowers called 'blue' are more accurately classified as mauve. Mauve is also sometimes described as pale violet.
The synthetic dye mauve was first so named in 1859. Chemist William Henry Perkin, then eighteen, was attempting in 1856 to synthesize quinine, which was used to treat malaria. He noticed an unexpected residue, which turned out to be the first aniline dye. Perkin originally named the dye Tyrian purple after the historical dye, but the product was renamed mauve after it was marketed in 1859. It is now usually called Perkin's mauve, mauveine, or aniline purple.
Earlier references to a mauve dye in 1856–1858 referred to a color produced using the semi-synthetic dye murexide or a mixture of natural dyes. Perkin was so successful in marketing his discovery to the dye industry that his 2000 biography by Simon Garfield is simply entitled Mauve. Between 1859 and 1861, mauve became a fashion must-have.
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