Japanese flower arrangement <Ike-bana> applied to western needs . bend over and touch thewater, pass under it, and come out again,pointing upwards. Flowers Arranged in Holders are Easierfor a Beginner The holder stands up of itself, and afterplacing it in the vase you can at once beginwork. Then, too, the lines in these arrange-ments are more simple and upright and arearranged according to relative height and posi-tion, only very little bending being my thinking there is no arrangement offlowers more beautiful than these in the lowvases, and nothing can be accomplished more q
Japanese flower arrangement <Ike-bana> applied to western needs . bend over and touch thewater, pass under it, and come out again,pointing upwards. Flowers Arranged in Holders are Easierfor a Beginner The holder stands up of itself, and afterplacing it in the vase you can at once beginwork. Then, too, the lines in these arrange-ments are more simple and upright and arearranged according to relative height and posi-tion, only very little bending being my thinking there is no arrangement offlowers more beautiful than these in the lowvases, and nothing can be accomplished more quickly. [109] JAPANESE FLOWER ARRANGEMENT This style of Japanese flower arrangementis easily adapted to Western table decora-tion. There is no end to their variety. Thelow, broad proportions of these arrange-ments make them more suitable than thehigh groups generally used, cutting off thoseseated on one side of the table from thoseon the other, which is not conducive toconversation. In these flat, open vases even a few grasseswill make an attractive arrangement. Use. perhaps nine grasses for your Heaven, sevenfor Man, and five or three for Earth. Ifyou are unable to get any sedge or reeds,[no] WATER-GROWING BULBS which would naturally grow at the watersedge, use the foliage of daffodils or narcissi,and you will find the result as pleasing as ifyou had used flowers. In these vases stones and rocks used tosimulate a river bed make an effective deco-
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