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Your tutor Tricia Legg

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, Tricia is a director for floralartmall.com. and editor of floral design magazine .

This free lesson is learning to plait palm fronds to create a new contemporary form in flower arranging.

The full series of lessons, Manipulating Leaves Volume 1 and Volume 2 with short video clips and slide show is available on the 2 CD Rom set at a discounted price, here

plaiting a palm
Barbara Starrenburg, from the Warkworth club in New Zealand created the beautiful palm plaiting below which caused quite a sensation at the Ellerslie Flower Show and we have had numerous requests asking how she did it.

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.


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 toa webpage, but is part of the lesson "Plaiting a palm frond" on the exciting CD Rom "Manipulating Leaves", available here

Manipulating Leaves Volume 1

Computer CD: Manipulating Leaves Volume 1 is just $US29.95,What a tiny price this is to pay when you compare it to the price of attending a workshop, paying a teacher, or enrolling on a course. And with the CDs you can play them over and over again on your computer at no extra cost.
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USING NEW ZEALAND FLAX

DVD:Tricia Legg loves New Zealand Flax as much as she does Palms. On this DVD she will guide you through 6 lessons using New Zealand Flax, including plaiting it into a Flax flower and making the beautiful 'skeletonised' Flax
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