Satomi lead a workshop demonstrating how to arrange dried material. It was from Book 4, lesson 13. She showed three arrangements to inspire us. Each used both dried and fresh materials. She stressed the importance of keeping the dried materials out of water as the stems will rot, whilst making sure the fresh materials are in water.
Her first arrangement involved fixing dried strelizia leaves through the hole in the middle of the vase, then adding little bunches of dried statice, then finally a variegated leaf.
The second featured bunches of divaricating muehlenbeckia to build up volume, then adding some fresh flax leaves woven through it, and some chrysanths to finish it off. Finally, her last arrangement involved wiring a tin container in a nook in the branch which allowed the hebe and chrysanths to sit in water, tucked in amongst the dried puka leaves.
