{"id":229,"date":"2011-11-03T23:55:19","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T23:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saramonica.com\/?p=229"},"modified":"2016-11-05T16:25:20","modified_gmt":"2016-11-05T16:25:20","slug":"cherry-blossom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saramonica.com\/?p=229","title":{"rendered":"History of Millinery Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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98% of our custom made flowers are made with vintage bronze flower molds (aka: veining tool, flower iron and\/or flower die) which were handmade and cast around the late 1800\u2019s early 1900\u2019s by the flower millinery tool manufacturers of New York City.\u00a0It\u2019s always so much fun to press a petal from a mold for the first time to see the secrets of its beauty that was hidden for 100 years. In the late 1800\u2019s and early 1900\u2019s there were many flower tool manufacturers in New York City\u2019s Fashion District. The mold designs were all handmade, hand carved from plaster and hand cast typically in bronze and\/or iron by an artisan specially trained in the trade of flower tools. They were popular in that era because the hat makers, also known as \u201cMilliners\u201d, used them to make flowers to decorate ladies hats. This is why the fabric fashion flower is known as a \u201cMillinery Flower\u201d. \u00a0In the 20\u2019s and 30\u2019s NYC was heavily factory based. Eventually hats fell out of daily fashion. After WWII, by the mid 50\u2019s to 60\u2019s the flower die factories moved out of NYC to cheaper areas such as Brooklyn and Long Island. And then, in time, closing down as the industry became outsourced to Western Block Countries (including Soviet Occupied Germany) and then to Japan, Korea and China. China is now the largest manufacturer of Millinery Flowers. And in America there are still small studios, such as Sara Monica LLC, that hand make them as well.\u00a0 There is still one last large scale millinery flower manufacturer in NYC who I admire and refer many customers to.<\/p>\n

Now Millinery flowers are more often worn in hair and clothing rather than hats, since not as many people wear high fashion hats. The difference between a Millinery Flower and a fabric flower that you would find in the home d\u00e9cor section of a craft stores on a plastic stick is that the plastic stick flowers are made specifically for home d\u00e9cor and the Millinery Flower is made to be worn. And the Millinery Flower is typically made out of higher quality dress fabrics.\u00a0 Many Millinery flowers have been designed for home d\u00e9cor as well and many home d\u00e9cor flowers have had their plastic sticks removed by crafters to be worn. The home d\u00e9cor flower\u2019s intention is to imitate nature exactly. But the Millinery Flower\u2019s intentions are not to imitate nature exactly, but to be inspired by nature and interpreted into a creative design, an artistic expression. A Millinery Flower is a genuine handmade work of art.<\/p>\n

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