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The Art of Making Wax Flowers

Spiral Bound Book Republication™

Originally published in 1884!

126-yr-old Antique Victorian Etchings & Instructions for Wax Flower Making!

Up for bid is another marvelous Dakota Prairie Treasures Spiral Bound Book Republication™ of our original "The Art of Making Wax Flowers!" Filled with instructions with steel plate etchings/woodcuts by the experienced fancywork wax artists from the Victorian Era. This information was originally published in 1884! (Original is NOT for sale)

This HISTORIC item contains illustrations, instructions, diagrams, designs materials and fundamentals for creating a variety of wax work floral items. There are many etchings of leaf templates and designs for a pleathora of wax flower ornaments with significant cultural and historical based instructions included!

This type of original information is seldom found on Atomic Mall or elsewhere! I was fortunate enough in my bibliomaniacal searching to run across this gem and am sharing with those who love the old arts as much as I!

These instructions are characteristic of the crafts done by our lady ancestors during the Victorian and Antebellum cultural periods and earlier! This is the perfect opportunity to purchase your own version of another wonderful creative art informational source revealing our heritage from early America and European!

A few quotes:

"To understand properly the making of models of flowers from wax, we must first allude to the materials employed, then to the procuring of proper shapes or patterns, afterwards to the fashioning of these materials, cut to the required patterns into the objects to be imitated, and finally, the natural arrangement and finishing of each part, the decorating it with artificial leaves, tendrils, etc., and the grouping of the whole together into a harmonious contrast ..."

What a historically educational and delightful art instructional piece this is!

Contents:

Articles and Materials Required

"Sheets of wax...wire, silk, curling pins, try and water colors, ox gall, tinting brushes, camel's-hair pencils...scissors, shapes...varnish, white and green down..."

Making Sheets of Wax

"home-made sheets do not cost a quarter as much as those bought, and also because the person making these things herself, is able to procure, with accuracy, every ting required, and to make her wax of every size and thickness..."

Instruction on How to Make the Following Colors of Wax

White, Yellow, Pinks and Reds (4 shades), Blues (2 shades), Greens ("six or seven different tints"),

How to Make Wax Sheets

Method #1

(How to Make Wax Sheets Using a Carpenter's Shave or Spokeshave)

Method #2

(Using a Carpenter's Plane)

Method #3

(Using Paper Pattern Templates)

Colors Required

White and Green Down

(Used to give "some leaves and stalks...a certain degree of mealiness or hairiness about them...")

Curling Pinds

Brushes

Patterns and Shapes

The Making of Tag Plates of Both Paper and Tin

How to Make Your Own Pattern Templates

Pattern Template Examples for:

Forget-me-knots

Veronica

Lilac

Dahlia

Primrose

China Aster

Chrysanthemum

Stamins and Pointal

To Make Waxen Leaves

To Make Succulent Stems, Buds, etc.

Modelling Simple Flowers

Single and Simple Flowers

The Snowdrop, Crocus, Primrose and Violet

The Crocus Tribe

The Snowdrop

The Violet

The Heart's-ease

The Tulip, Hyacinth, and Narcissus

The Tulip

The Van Trol

The Hyacinth

The Narcissus

Jonquil

Poet's Narciss

Polyanthus Narciss

Two-flowered Narciss

Fuchsia

The Poppy

Various Parts of the Fuchsia of the Natural Size, being Drawn from an Actual Flower

(Pattern Templates)

The Passion Flower

The Single Rose

The Chrysanthemum, China Aster, and other Quilled Flowers

The Lily of the Vally

Modelling of Double Flowers

Which delectable flora will you make first!?!

The ladies and gents of earlier times put their hands to such marvelous work and now you can too! These are beautiful items and sure to delight you and yours! The instructions are based within the parimeters of the Victorian grammerical and socialization culture. For those who have some experience with that era's verbal and text style the instructions should be clear and easy to follow. The experience waxworker will be capable of altering as per individual needs and artistic whim.

You will appreciate the attention taken in providing a TOP QUALITY PRODUCT that you will use for many years to come...and can participate in reviving an almost dead art of hair-working!

Pretty much everything you need to make the exquisite and fully functional leather work and dress gloves, and more, but the leather, threads, tools, etc. However, these all can be readily found on Atomic Mall! You just have to hunt a little bit! :) Or, you can obtain the contemporary materials at your nearest leather or crafting store.

The item you will receive is representative of the types of handicraft expertise of earlier genteel American and European culture! If you're into nostalgia like I am you will have many hours of enjoyment recreating antique waxwork items for yourself or others dear to your heart just the way your great-great-grandmothers did!

You will appreciate the attention taken in providing a TOP QUALITY PRODUCT that you will use for many years to come. This information has been scanned at a high resolution and electronically revamped to provide you with the very best hardcopy reproduction. Our Spiral Bound Republication™ has so many more advantages over the original book.

What are the benefits of our antique Spiral Bound Book Republications™?

* Our products do not cost a small fortune for you to obtain and enjoy.

* Every image and every page has been scanned to produce crystal clear images and you never have to deal with any crumbling old paper!

* The scans are enlarged to full-page dimensions for ease of viewing!

* You can gift these wonderful Retro pattern book finds with family and friends!

You will appreciate the attention we have taken in providing you with a TOP QUALITY PRODUCT that will be use for many years to come...

Check out Dakota Prairie Treasures' current auctions for many other unique needlework Spiral Bound Book, CD and Single Pattern Republications™ for your creative needle working pleasure!

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