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Willow and Rose heart armature

Weave willow stems into a heart shaped armature.

Manipulating stems: Snapping at an angle, Bending, Spiraling, Curling and Straightening

Most stems, twigs and even sturdier branches can be bend into shapes. It takes practice and more than a bit of patience. The main idea is to slowly manipulate the branch without breaking it.

Bite and snap a sturdy twig

Break the sturdy twig on the scribe line.

Drinking straw "test tubes"

When you need to keep a tiny stem hydrated this is just what you need.

Stripping foliage from weaving stems

Remove foliage from stems to weave with

Butterfly hairclip claws to hold twigs in place while glue dries

Butterfly hair clips are the perfect little claws to help you hold tiny items in place while you wait for glue to dry

Willow Heart Wand

Free Standing Twig and Wire Heart Armature

Bend wires and fill in the gabs with Stillingia twigs to make a delicate heart armature

A Sprouting Spring Twig Heart

Carefully glue a twig armature to display the mini-miniature Darling orchids

Love Bug

Heart shaped rosery vine and pine love bug

Wire two Equisetum shoots into a heart

A wire in the hollow cavity inside a shoot of equisetum makes it easy to manipulate into a heart

Braid a Celtic heart knot

Braid or knot a traditional Celtic heart with foliage

Moss Heart

Biodegradable copper mesh makes the perfect shape to fill with moss to grow tiny stem plants

Tap in a Twig Support

Wedge snipped twigs into a glass vase to act as a support for your flowers

Well Rooted Sprouting Willow Weave

Weave a sprouting armature

Slip-slit tapped in stems to keep vines upright in a muted autumn display

A tiny adjustment in a stem wedged into a vase mechanic to give you even more control over the placement of design details.

Use Firethorn spears for a Vine and Orchid twist support

Sharp thorns can be used to keep your floral details in place

Tap in support for horizontal placement of your top heavy flowers

Placing gladiolus stems horizontally so that the stems... disappear.

Using the new growth on blossom branches as a base for a woodland design

A fun way to use your blossom branches in a design once all the petals fall.

Manipulate Blossoming Twigs To Hang Fluttering Woven Grass Hearts

These peach blossom branches needed only the tiniest bit of help to frame the woven hearts to perfection.

Love Spell

Weave willow to create a heart shaped wand design

Be My Twig-Heart

Glue an upright twig heart for a freestanding Valentine's display

It could hold

A fragile looking heart made from twigs that can hold a lot of orchids

Two Are

Equisetum Valentine's hearts

Grow on it

Wedge twigs into a vase to create a grid.

Toning down the summer up into the earliest autumn

Using summery floral details in a way that it gives you all the autumn feelings... when autumn details are not yet out.

Refresh-ing

A tall vase for a short orchid stem summer design

Look at me… doing math!

Adding our own "bit" to our floral design work.

All A-flutter

Adding a few fluttering petals to a design.

Parallel Hang Ups

While waiting for the blossoms to open... why not weave in a touch of Valentine's Day love?

Rosa

My all in the same boat floral art arrangement with roses in an Agave sisalana (sisal) leaf.

Salix matsudana "Tortuosa"

I wove three willow spheres for my Floral Art design Three Drops of floral chocolate.