Your teacher for this lesson on plaiting a palm frond is Tricia Legg, who is passionate about two things: flowers and their arrangement in all disciplines, and education.
A senior designer in Floral Art, she has recently begun lessons in Sogestu design from the Eastern Ikebana style.
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plaiting a palm

Start with the three fronds at the very top of the palm leaf and plait them, the left over the middle frond, the right over the new middle frond. Take the next left frond over the middle and pick up another left frond from the main stem and put that over the middle too. Pull them tightly for a tight curl

Now take the right frond and bring it to the middle, take a right frond from the main stem and put that to the middle too. Do these two steps all the way down plaiting the fronds in. To finish, tie loose fronds off and bind with binding wire.

Barbara dried the completed, plaited fronds in a warm dry place and then lightly sprayed them pale blue for the design above

The movie to show this plait is too large to add to a webpage, but is part of the lesson "Plaiting a palm frond" on the exciting new CD Rom "Manipulating Leaves", available here

Barbara Starrenburg, from the Warkworth club in New Zealand created the beautiful palm plaiting (left) which caused quite a sensation at 2003 Ellerslie Flower Show and we have had numerous requests asking how she did it.
As a result, this technique is included on the new CD, called Manipulating Leaves, where folding, curling, plaiting, weaving, rolling, layering and looping are explained in detail. Included are step by step instructions, movies, and slide shows of experts using each technique. It is available here
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PLAITING A PALM FROND

The fronds of many palms can be plaited. and in this demonstration yellow palm is used. Cane palm, Queen palm, kentia palms can all be used.

Have the palm flat in front of you with the stem facing into your body and the underside, upwards.

I am assuming you know how to do a three plait, taking three strands, bringing the left into the middle, the right into the middle, the new left into the middle etc. The only difference with this plait is that every time you take a left or right into the middle, you pick up a new frond from the palm leaf and plait it in as well.

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