Reasons to be careful when you go to buy an artificial flower bouquet

Jan 6
09:32

2012

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There are several companies that are able to offer an artificial flower bouquet that looks extremely realistic and that looks almost like the real thing. These bouquets are made out of a huge variety of materials such as velvet,Reasons to be careful when you go to buy an artificial flower bouquet  Articles silk, foam, paper, and even latex. The bouquets are often promoted as cost-effective alternatives to bouquets made out of real flowers.

It is true that an artificial flower bouquet often looks very realistic and can often be mistaken for a real one. Many companies dealing in artificial flowers often take great care to select the material and the colors carefully to make sure that the result is as believable as possible. For example, when they are creating callas, they will typically use foam or latex for the most realistic callas possible, avoiding the use of silk which would not keep its shape and which is not even available in the right colors that would give the desired effect. Even then, there are variations in the quality that is available and when one is purchasing an artificial flower, either alone or in the form of a bouquet, one needs to be very careful and make sure that they are getting their money’s worth.

There is a variety known as “soft touch” and if given a choice, this is what you need to opt for. A soft touch artificial flower has a much wider variety of colors and flowers and if you want realistic flowers that not only look real, but also feels almost like the real thing, this would be it. They consist of a thin petal, with the right amount of texture added to it, and they have fantastic color reproduction, right down to the stems. In fact, to make it look even more real, you can go so far as to dip the stems in waterso that no one is able to catch the difference.

There is another variety of artificial flower that is known as “natural touch”, which does offer more texture than with soft-touch and is also very realistic, more so than soft touch flowers. However, they do not have as wide a variety of colors as are available in soft touch, and for this reason natural touch flowers are not as popular. It is possible to dye natural touch flowers into the required colors, but this is not recommended since the material and the dyes may tend to bleed, and it is best to remain within the default palette of colors.