Project description
We are furnishing the long wall in our living room and want a set of framed pressed plants there instead of posters. The plan is nine frames, 30 by 40 cm each, hung as a three by three grid with roughly five centimetres between them, all in the same narrow unobtrusive moulding. The material comes from our own garden and from the meadow behind the house: cornflower, yarrow, wild carrot, meadow geranium, fern fronds, oat and brome grasses, poppy seed heads, clover, tansy. Nothing rare or protected is to be collected — only ordinary garden and meadow species, and if a plant you propose is anything other than that, please say so plainly rather than quietly adding it.
What matters most to us is silhouette. Each frame has to read as one clear shape from three metres away, so please select specimens with an open, flat structure rather than dense bunches, and lay out the composition before the pressing, not after it. The drying should be done under a real press with regular changes of blotting paper: our understanding is two to three weeks for thin stems and longer for thick flower heads, and if your experience says otherwise, name the honest timeline at the start. We have no illusions about colour: the pigments break down as the plant dries, blue and red go first, and in a year or two the set will be quieter than on the day it was assembled. Tell us which of the listed plants will hold their tone and which will turn to straw, and we will adjust the selection to your answer.
Mounting must be reversible. No glue spread across a leaf and no overlapping tape across a stem: each specimen is held to acid-free backing with thin paper hinges or fine linen thread, so any piece can be lifted later without damage. Above that a warm white or cream mat with a window, and anti-reflective glass with ultraviolet protection. The wall we chose gets no direct sun, only diffused daylight, but we still want the glass as insurance.
Open questions for you: labels in Latin or no labels at all — we lean towards small pencilled Latin names in the lower right of the mat, but would like to see a sample first; and whether the back should be sealed or left breathable.
— nine frames, 30x40 cm, one matching moulding
— collecting, pressing and mounting of every specimen
— mats cut to a single window size
— anti-reflective UV glass, hanging hardware fitted
— a photo of the full layout before final assembly
What matters most to us is silhouette. Each frame has to read as one clear shape from three metres away, so please select specimens with an open, flat structure rather than dense bunches, and lay out the composition before the pressing, not after it. The drying should be done under a real press with regular changes of blotting paper: our understanding is two to three weeks for thin stems and longer for thick flower heads, and if your experience says otherwise, name the honest timeline at the start. We have no illusions about colour: the pigments break down as the plant dries, blue and red go first, and in a year or two the set will be quieter than on the day it was assembled. Tell us which of the listed plants will hold their tone and which will turn to straw, and we will adjust the selection to your answer.
Mounting must be reversible. No glue spread across a leaf and no overlapping tape across a stem: each specimen is held to acid-free backing with thin paper hinges or fine linen thread, so any piece can be lifted later without damage. Above that a warm white or cream mat with a window, and anti-reflective glass with ultraviolet protection. The wall we chose gets no direct sun, only diffused daylight, but we still want the glass as insurance.
Open questions for you: labels in Latin or no labels at all — we lean towards small pencilled Latin names in the lower right of the mat, but would like to see a sample first; and whether the back should be sealed or left breathable.
— nine frames, 30x40 cm, one matching moulding
— collecting, pressing and mounting of every specimen
— mats cut to a single window size
— anti-reflective UV glass, hanging hardware fitted
— a photo of the full layout before final assembly
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