How To Make A Boutonniere Lapel Pin Flower - Fort Belvedere

You can check out the entire Fort Belvedere's boutonniere collection here: https://gentl.mn/2kJuoNK #boutonniere #notsponsored #lapelflower For a text version of this video visit: http://gentl.mn/how-a-boutonniere-is-made Our boutonniere flowers are as authentic as a silk flower can be but it's not easy to manufacture something that looks authentic. So before we start making flowers, we get inspired by nature. Outside, We find these little flowers that are perfectly sized for our lapels. Once we've settled on a flower style, it's time to choose the materials. Obviously, it all starts with the fabric. We only use plain white because the flowers are very delicate and it requires a special hand dying process so they will look natural. To ensure the material does not move, the fabric used to be fastened to a wooden board then, we select one of over a hundred thousand metal flower dye cuts to get the actual shape of the flower. Traditionally, wooden hammers were used to dye cut the little flower shapes. Today, we are just slightly more progressive because we use a machine that is more efficient and secure for the workers. In the next step, the fabric dye cuts are stacked on top of each other and then colored by hand in exactly the base color the flower has in nature. Since most flowers have multiple colors and often gradients, they must be colored a second or a third time. Sometimes, just the tips until the desired color palette is completed. In order to achieve the int