How to Use Floral Tape

Floral tape is used in flower arranging and corsage making etc.

Here are some tips.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Floral tape
• Scissors
• Added extras, such as beaded wire
• Silk or fresh flowers

1. Floral tape comes in white and green. Choose the best color for your item.
   
   The tape is a little waxy feeling, and stretches also. It is easy to tear but you might want to cut it.
   
   Choose the flowers you plan to wrap.

2. Take a flower by the stem, hold the tape against the bottom of the wire and twirl the stem as the tape wraps around and up the stem or stems if combining more flowers together. Then tear off after wrapping with a little to spare and wrap it back down the stem. It will stick to itself but not to you.
   
   Practice on something you don't plan to use a few times before using your good flowers.

3. Tape can also hold larger bundles together. But you will have to wrap a cover over it with satin ribbon if you have someone holding it like in a nosegay bouquet.
   
   Little stems of flowers wrapped with some dried flowers for corsages are easy to wrap with this method, and save a bundle at the florist.
   
   Pick up a good do it yourself floral book at the library for more techniques and pictures.

Tips & Warnings

• I found that I could teach myself many ways to do things by reading and looking and trying. Most of the time it is inexpensive to do this and there is always someone who will lend you a hand if you ask.
• This tape dries out over time, so if you only use it for say Christmas arrangements or such, you might need new stock.