Potpourri and fragrant crafts - Hardcover

Williams, Betsy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0895778661 ISBN 13: 9780895778666

Publisher: Readers Digest, 1996

Synopsis

Demonstrates the art of creating fragrant blends from flowers, leaves, spices, herbs, wood, and other botanical ingredients with step-by-step instructions

About this title

From Booklist:

One of the most humorous oxymorons of all times must be the derivation of the word potpourri, originally meaning "rotten pot." Yet nothing could smell sweeter and less odoriferous than herbalist Williams' 35 fragrant mixes and 19 giftables. In a meandering layout and text that suggests romance and Victoriana, she explains to readers all the right stuff in the three main categories of potpourri ingredients--bulk botanicals, natural fixatives, and oils--and demonstrates, usually in words, various drying techniques. Then the recipes appear, all titled to evoke different moods and usefulness and all including preparation time and details of the assembly process. From those 35 flow the crafts--stuffed, filled, strung, rolled, and hung with appropriate combinations of plants and oils. Directions for each come with step-by-step color photographs (which could have been snapped with a better close-up angle). Barbara Jacobs

About this edition

• Publisher: Readers Digest
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0895778661
• ISBN 13: 9780895778666
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 143