Props, Scenery, Costumes and Makeup: thousands of fake flowers!!!!

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thousands of fake flowers!!!!

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Topic: thousands of fake flowers!!!!

Posted By: lottigam
Subject: thousands of fake flowers!!!!
Date Posted: 12/29/10 at 10:32am

Hi all, for the next show, the Winter's Tale, I need to make a 16'x20' flower carpet. Plus I need 5 plastic bins full of artificial flowers, and replace one each show for 20 runs. This means that I need thousands and thousands of flowers. I cannot afford buying such an amount of flowers....so do you have any suggestions on a cheap and quick way to make fake flowers?
Thank you very much

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Posted By: vickifrank
Date Posted: 12/30/10 at 9:39am

For the carpet: You could print or stencil the carpet...pehaps adding a few flowers/petals on top to make the rest look textural and dimensional. (I have a scraped printed piece in red that could be used as the base for stencil if you are going for roses--its red).

For the bins: Don't funeral parlors/hospitals sometimes donate the flowers after viewings/stays? Perhaps you use real from various parlors/hospitals

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Posted By: gelcat
Date Posted: 1/12/11 at 9:57am

man, I can't remember how to make them, but I used to make flowers out of kleenex/tissue paper and tied off with pipe cleaners or wire twist ties - they ended up looking like carnations or mums

Everyone make flowers!

I don't understand where you are losing flowers as I don't know the show- why are you unable to recover the flowers?

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Posted By: lottigam
Date Posted: 1/12/11 at 11:34am

Thank you very much for your reply! Unfortunately I talked to the set designer/director and he really would like to use either fabric or plastic flowers.
He does not want "handmade" flowers either! So what I tried to do is using a website called globalsources.com (which is very similar to alibaba.com but, in my opinion, better organized) which helps you to find chinese companies that makes artificial flowers (or thousands of other things) and that are willing to work with you. I am finalizing with them in these days and they all have been very fast and detailed in the email exchange. On average the price for 4000 fabric flowers is $250 + shipping.

Posted By: edh915
Date Posted: 1/12/11 at 12:59pm

If this is Shakespeare's "Winter's Tale", then I can guarantee you that good old Will didn't have thousands of flowers, fake or otherwise, strewn all over the stage of the Globe Theater. I think your set designer/director needs a lesson or two in the "less is more" school of theatre. But then, he/she is the boss, so I guess you're stuck. Glad the Chinese came to your rescue.