Vintage 1970s Craft Book - The Art of Handmade Flowers - Miyuki and Tomoko Iida - 1971 First Edition folk art paint splatters

paint splatters

butter yellow and orange

Made in Germany around the 1920s

Noritake was first started by the Morimuro brothers in 1875 who imported china and giftware from Japan to New York City

Vintage 1970s Craft Book - The Art of Handmade Flowers - Miyuki and Tomoko Iida - 1971 First Edition folk art paint splattersNo part of nature is more lovely than flowers, but since they fade and die, it is only natural that we should want to fix them in some enduring form. (From the Preface) {HISTORY} What started as an interest in dress decorations in the 1930s, bloomed (no pun intended!) into a passionate life long career for floral artist Miyuki Iida (1903 2007). Developing a way to arrange flowers made by hand from cloth, Miyuki evolved her personal dress accessories