Dried Autumn Leaf Container

Autumn (or fall) leaves provide a wonderful array of colours to use in our designs. In this technique I have rolled and glued them to a base for a design that is viewed all around.

Autumn Leaf Container

This technique requires plenty of time to allow each layer of leaves to dry – I’m talking 2 weeks at least!

This technique is included in a video tutorial along with palm frond weaving, banana leaf folding, reed weaving (corn dolly style), foliage domes, offcut shapes and spider webbing.

Here is the section on making this container

 

I used this finished container (two of them, back to back) in a design that was judged all around called “Foliage Manipulation”.

Foliage manipulation

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