Plan and construct advanced floral and planted designs for sale
Overview
This standards is about planning and construction advanced floral and planted designs for sale. Advanced floral and planted designs will include designs for large events, large scale designs, bespoke designs. It will include the use of complex techniques, a wide range of construction materials and varied time scales. This will involve expanding the understanding of floral theory and mastering contemporary techniques and design mechanics.
This will also involve the Advanced Florist working on plans, constructing designs and evaluating constructions, as well as managing personnel to help meet the needs of the floristry business.
When undertaking all work the impact on the environment should be considered.
This NOS is suitable for an Advanced Florist with management responsibilities
Performance criteria
You must be able to:
Knowledge and Understanding
You need to know and understand:
Scope/range
Plan and construct the following floral and planted designs to an advanced level, using a high degree of complexity applying the relevant Principles and Elements of design:
Tied designs
Designs in a medium/water source
- Planted designs
- Glued designs
- Wired designs
Construct advanced floral and planted designs using the following techniques:
- Basing
- Binding
- Caging
- Gluing
Grouping
Layering
- Pinning
- Plaiting
- Pleating/folding
- Rolling/cupping
- Spiralling
- Stapling
- Taping
- Threading
- Tying and knotting
- Veiling
- Weaving
- Wiring
- Wrapping
Scope Performance
Scope Knowledge
Values
Behaviours
Skills
Glossary
Fresh Botanical material: Plants, cut flowers, cut foliage.
Nomenclature: How botanical materials are identified using their Genus, species and cultivar/variety.
Elements of floral design: Colour, Form, Line, Space, Texture
Principles of floral design: Balance, Contrast, Dominance, Harmony, Proportion, Rhythm, Scale
Sources of inspiration: botany, culture, emotion, design, craft/technique, economic/budget
Design Schema including:
Order Category: Symmetry/Asymmetry
Arrangement: Decorative/vegetative/form linear
- Floral Line Arrangement: Parallel/radial/crossings/freeline
- Flower placement: Varied density /Distribution / Random scattered / Row and lines / Grouping
Historical Eras listed: Egyptian, Greece and Rome, Ancient China, Medieval, Italian Renaissance, Dutch Flemish, Baroque, Rococo, American Colonial, Georgian, Victorian, Edwardian and Art Nouveau, 1920 AND 1930’S,Art Deco
Historically Accurate
Interpretative