Chapter 3 Making Flowers - Casings

Flower Casings: 

I have also discovered a method to recreate the sepals of a flower. It consists of chasing fold lines into a disc of metal and then pressing the disc into a dome to allow the grooves to fold within each other to form a structure resembling the sepals of a flower. I created these parts from copper as copper is easily worked.

Figure 7 shows the template used to create the sepals:

Figure 7 - van der Linden, A., (2019)
construction of the sepals

Figure 8 shows how the templates are punched to create grooves:

Figure 8 - van der Linden, A., (2019)
construction of the sepals

Figure 9 shows the complete sepal:

Figure 9 - van der Linden, A., (2019)
construction of the sepals