Wax Flowers Modeling Antique Book E1010 c1869 | How To good Make Wax Flowers | Bridal Tiara Flowers | Victorian Wax Flowers Roses Lily

Art of Modelling Flowers in Wax.

c1869 The Art of Modelling Flowers in Wax book by George Worgan. Post Civil War Period. This leather brown hardbound book has blindstamped beveled boards on BOTH SIDES, with the title in gilt. For a book of its age, it is remarkably well preserved. The cover boards have minimal wear, and the corners are still in very good shape. The spine has a few very old repairs, is a little sunned, and the pages within are VG with a hint of watermark at the bottom right (not detracting, but mentioned for accuracy and does not affect the text). The text block is holding quite well, it looks as if this book was only shelved, and never read. Even the hinge papers are uncracked, amazing for a book dated 1869. It is a sweet textbook on how to make all wax flowers, buds, leaves, and more. It is especially intriguing, as this was the type of book ladies used to make their bridal tiara wax flowers! It was an essential piece of Victorian life; that is, that a proper lady would excel at her skills in making wax flowers for all occasions. And I'm sure it was a lovely Sunday pastime, or tea function when ladies gathered together. 39 pages, with several blank pages at the back for notes and drawings, unmarked. Also included is a postcard from the 1890s that has violets, daisies, and lily of the flower. Overall size is 4 5/8 x 7.5 inches. SCARCE. Use Etsy's KLARNA at checkout for IMMEDIATE SHIPPING and 4 interest free payments! Follow us to preview new Items.

The preface reads:

In submitting the Art of Modelling Flowers in Wax to public favor, I am induced to believe it will be found acceptable; while, to the inexperienced, it will afford much valuable information, removing real and apparent difficulties. It will also present a stimulus to many to exercise their imitative powers in copying nature's most beautiful works, thereby cultivating a taste for the Fine Arts, which, in these days of advancement, is absolutely essential in the varied pursuits of life. The Author trusts that he has conveyed the information to the reader in the most simple manner, his object being to make it a book of instruction rather than a mere work of words, whose tendency is rather to perplex than aid.

Some of the sub chapters include:

Wax Flowers as an Imitative and Decorative Art.

Materials essential for imitating flowers in wax.

General instructions for taking the patterns of flowers from nature.

How to tint flowers.

Forming petals and adjusting them according to Nature.

Construction of the Tea rosebud.

The pink tea rose.

Moss rosebud.

The pink moss rose.

The white rose.

The red or damask rosebud.

Formation of the heliotrope.

Laurestinas.

Forget me not.

The mignonnette.

The white camellia.

The carnation.

The English pink.

White water lily.

Red Fuchsia.

White Jasmine.

The yellow Jasmine.

Double purple violet.

The dark geranium.

Lily of the valley.

The tuberose.

A couple excerpts read:

A pair of scissors, light and thin, such as used by surgeons, are the best adapted for the purpose; they should be thin in the blades and rather loose in the rivets, so as to cut easily round the paper pattern; a cup to hold water; a pallet; three or four steel pins, with bead heads of different sizes; six or eight bristle brushes; two or three small sable pencils; three rings of green wire of different thicknesses; two wooden molds for forming bell-shaped flowers, such as the lily of the valley or stephanotas; a small quantity of gum arabic dissolved in pur water; some white wax in sheets of a thin texture, also some of the extra thick or double wax; a few tints of green wax, a shade of light yellow wax; some bloom for white flowers and tea roses, also some tints for making violets, dark roses, geraniums, and very brilliant colored flowers, prepared expressly by myself.

Roses are very irregular in formation, the petals are generally bunched in tiers of two or three. No positive rule can be given in forming the rose, much is left to the taste good of the pupil. Copy the character of the flower. Should you find that it looks stiff or awkward, take the petals off and put them on in a different manner.

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