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We sometimes unknowingly keep some flowers and leaves in our copies. And few days after when we see them we find them pressed and acquired a new shape and style. I hope you too, who is reading this article right now have done these instances at least once in your life. Pressed flower art is nothing but pressing the flowers. This art gives the flowers a natural form and a creative approach.

Pressing flowers is very easy and to press them we just have to place or keep the flowers between two permeable papers or sheets and put some heavy mass things upon it for few weeks. The resultant you get will be a pressed flower. However, not all flowers are pressed with this technique. There are many flowers, which require much skill and proper technique to press. Pressed flower art is mixture of flowers with art and crafts. One main advantage of pressed flower art is that they give the flowers a feeling of life.

We all know that flowers are living things and so they too have their life. It is merely impossible for us to keep them alive forever. They become dead after few days only. Therefore, pressed flower art is a way of making these flowers as alive. The colors which the pressed flowers have are of their own and very much natural. This art pave the way for an individual to combine the designs and drawings or paintings along with the benefit of Mother Nature.

Nowadays people also dry flowers to preserve them for a longer period of time. Pressing flowers is also another technique to encourage preservation of the plants. However, there is a vast flora species containing different types of flowers and therefore every leaf or flower need take in pressing them as they may have different way of pressing them. Knowledge of flowers in pressing them is very much important for florists who are pressing the flowers.

While pressing, one thing we have to keep in mind that the papers, which we use to press, should be less shiny like newspapers etc. We must take care in placing these flowers and leaves so that they do not lie on upon them. This will deform the shape of the flower. Placing the pile of papers or books and flowers above a light bulb is the best way to press them.