Botanical Pressing with Robert Mahar | Craft Friday

Botanical Pressing with Robert Mahar
What if you could take flowers and foliage from your own backyard and, rather than display them in a vase, learn how to preserve and transform them into surface designs to print on your favorite Spoonflower textiles? Join artist Robert Mahar in exploring the history of pressed botanicals, create your own small scale flower press, and then arrange the flattened results to create patterning that blooms across a linen cotton tea towel. Bonus! Follow along as Robert demonstrates how to add texture and color to your printed fabric with embroidery embellishments.

Meet Robert
Robert Mahar is a California-based artist and educator who teaches thoughtfully researched and developed hands-on projects based in historical craft traditions. He’s also a proud contestant alumni, and subsequent associate producer, on NBC’s crafting competition show Making It with Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman. With an education in studio arts and art history, he has worked in a variety of creative fields including 13 years as an appraiser of modern and contemporary art. Learn more about Robert, explore his video tutorial archive and shop his collection of curious embroidery samplers at robert-mahar.com.

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