Free Download: A Visual Guide to Dried Flowers for Crafts

Love flower crafts? Learn how to identify flowers you can buy, grow, or forage for your creative projects

Crafting art using dried flowers is a great way to bring nature and beauty into your home. Renowned embroidery artist Olga Prinku (@oprinku), practices the delicate art of weaving dried plants and flowers onto fabric, also known as flowers-on-tulle embroidery.

Her natural creations have been featured in Martha Stewart’s publications, among others, and in fashion collections like Swarovski.

For Olga, floral tulle embroidery is a craft for those who want to slow down, observe the beauty and fragility of nature, and find a sense of calm and inner peace in doing so.

As she explains, working with flowers requires delicacy, patience, and the “right frame of mind.” It’s a slow process as each element is fragile but, in time, her creations bloom. In her course, she teaches you her methodologies and how to create beautiful handmade pieces using organic materials.

Drawing inspiration from her natural surroundings in the North of England, Olga forages and dries the majority of flowers she uses for her projects herself.

Whether it’s the shape of a seed head or the color of a flower, the landscape around her or a passing owl, nature is Olga’s thread and she looks for beauty wherever she can. As she puts it, “even weeds can be beautiful.” But, as she also explains, care must be taken when foraging for proper plant identification as some plants might be dangerous.

Free Download: A Visual Guide to Flowers

Here, she shares a picture guide that includes the common and Latin names of 24 flowers and plants that she loves using for her craft projects (and throughout her course). The resource will help you identify the flowers when it comes to purchasing, growing, or foraging.

After clicking on the button below, you will find a file in .zip format in the Downloads folder on your computer containing the Guide to Flowers by Olga Prinku.

If you want to learn more, you can sign up for Olga Prinku’s course, Tulle Embroidery with Natural Flowers and Plants.

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