Chapter 3 Making Flowers- Petals

Making Flowers:

Moving Petals

I created my flower designs so that their petals are able to move. I used a pivot system to allow the petals to move around freely. These pivots were created by cutting slits into a round disc of metal plate and then sliding the petals; that have narrower strips attached to the ends; into these slits. I then rolled up the ends of these strips to act as stoppers, preventing the petals from slipping out. This technique allows the petals to move around without slipping out. Casings were constructed to cover the mechanisms.
Figure 4 is a technical drawing showing how the petals are attached:

Figure 4 van der Linden, A., (2019)
Slots on a disc with petals.
Technical drawing Generated
on Rhino 6

Figure 5 shows the construction of the inner discs that will hold the petals in place

Figure 5 - van der Linden, A., (2019)
Slots on a disc of sterling silver

I have created stamen like structures, to be soldered onto the centre of the slotted discs. These structures are made by punching dots into an annealed piece of 0.6mm metal. The reverse ends of these structures resemble the stamen parts of flowers. See figure 6

Figure 6 - van der Linden, A.,
(2019) creation of the stamen in
sterling silver