Savvy Buyer

摘要

Permanent botanicals offer a bridge to the lucrative home decor market. Flowers have long inspired attempts to capture their beauty forever. The ancient Egyptians crafted lotus flowers of linen Other cultures have created botanicals from glass, feathers, fabric, and wood. But the most elegant and true counterparts to fresh flowers by far were those sewn of silk, an art that likely originated in the imperial palace of China over 1,500 years ago.