Adding Wire to Silk Corsages

Video Transcript

"The next step in making a corsage, is to get, prepare all your flowers to be put together. And, what you need to do is, select your flower and put an extension on to it, so that you can be able to work with it. And, what I usually do, is, we'll take scraps from a bush, a simple wire. If you're using fresh flowers, you can use a cowie pick and you start by at the top, and give it a nice little tug, to get it tight and just twist it on down. As you go, you don't need to get real heavy or bulky with it, you just need to be able to use it, especially if they don't have a stem. If it's a fresh flower, it helps you to be able to manipulate the flower better. And, what you do, you need to be able to do this with everyone of your flowers. Say, if we're going to use this one for example, which has a soft stem, you still need to wrap them, so it has a consistency, the rest of the flowers, as well as looking like a fresh flower, as opposed to a silk flower. Stephanotis, which comes in bunches, it's very hard to manipulate something that's in a big bunch and in a cluster like this, so, what you need to do is the same thing with those. Is take and wrap a piece of wire on it and take green tape down all of these flowers. And ladies out in front of you, so that you know what you have to work with, wire a couple of extras, so if you decide to add or change anything, that would be great. Again, it's just pulling it a little bit tight, hold it in your finger, and twist it on down, and pull, and you have it. So, the next thing is, making sure that your flowers are wired, so that they look professional and fresh, as well as putting anything together, bundling it so that you have a nice long stem to be able to work with."