Floral Design Vocab

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Color Harmony

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Combinations of colors pleasing to the viewer's eye. It involves grouping specific hues and/or combining different values within one hue.

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Color Wheel

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It is used to study colors and their relationships. It represents the entire color spectrum formed into a circle.

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Color Scheme

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Pleasant combinations of flower and foliage colors in their arrangements.

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Cornucopia

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Also known as horn of plenty, and was first introduced by the Greek culture.

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Line Flower

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Establishes the skeleton or outline of an arrangement.

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Curvilinear

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Can be created with line flowers. Place stems of line flowers in a way that simulates a curve.

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Form Flower

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Creates a focal point or center of interest.

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Mass Flower

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Have a rounded head at the top and add mass to an arrangement.

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Filler Flower

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Adds a finishing touch to an arrangement.

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Hogarth(ian) Curve

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An asymmetrical arrangement that curves in the shape of an S.

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Nosegay

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A hand-held bouquet.

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Ikebana

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The art of Japanese floral arrangement.

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Neutral Colors

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Black, gray, and white-- to raise or lower the value of a hue.

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(Light) Intensity

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Brightness or dullness of a color or hue.

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Shin

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The heaven of a ikebana.

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Piercing Method

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Use for roses and carnations (stick the wire straight through the flowers "head stem")

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Hook Method

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Used for wiring chrysanthemums and other daisy type flowers (stick the wire through the stem, hook and the top, and pull the wire down until the wire is in place).

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Hairpin Method

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Used to wire a piece of foliage (bend the wire like a hairpin, place on the bottom two leaf stem's, and tape them to the stem).

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Foliage

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Fills an arrangement and gives it a background.

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Accessory

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* An object that adds to the arrangement.

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Bolt

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Thing used to help wrap the ribbon

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Foot-candle

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Measurement of light

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Insertion Method

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Method of wiring fresh flowers where the wire is inserted up through the base of the stem all the way to the top to provide support.

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Line Design

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Uses less flowers and is an arrangement in a line

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Mass Design

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uses all mass flowers in the arrangement

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Line-mass design

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Characterized by their originality, simplicity, and depth.

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Primary Colors

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red, yellow and blue0- basics from which all other colors are obtained.

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Secondary Colors

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result when two primary colors are combined in equal amounts. Green, violet, and orange.

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Teritary Colors

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Created when primary colors are mixed in equal amounts with an adjacent secondary color

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Proportion

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The relationship between the flowers, foilage and container.

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PH

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The symbol used to indicate the acidity or alkinity of a slolution. Range is from 0-14

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Respiration

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The conversion by the plant during photosynthesis into energy.

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Monochromatic

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Incorporating tints, tones and shades of a single hue in the flowers, foilage and the container of an arrangement. (Using the same color like blue, but different shades of it)

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Blue

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Condition

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?

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Cool colors

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Move away from you or feel more distant. (Blue, green, purple)

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Floral Preservative

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?

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Deterioration

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To become less in quality

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Green

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Relatively neutral, provides background

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Healing

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?

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Keeping quality

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Keeping the structure stable and up to proper condition

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Microbial

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?

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Orange

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Typically used in Autumn arrangements

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Pink

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Femanine color used on women

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Purple

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Signinfies older women or a women with significance

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Red

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Popular w/ women. Greatest poswer of attraction & provides a feeling of excitement. Positive agressive, passion, emotes love, fire & blood

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Scale

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Relationship between the completed arrangement and its location or surroundings

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Shade

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Color w/ black

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Stem Blockage

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?

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Tint

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Color w/ white

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Tone

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Color w/ grey

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Transpiration

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?

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Violet

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Warmth or coolness
w/ blue: restfulness
w/ red: warmth

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Visual Weight

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?

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Warm Colors

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Yellow, Red, Orange

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White

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Positive and stimulating. Used for weddings to signify innocence, purity, truth

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Yellow

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Cheerfulness, wealth, sun. Popular in spring arrangements.

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Actual Weight

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?

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Anchor Tape

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Commonly used to hold the floral foam in the container

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Asymmetrical Arrangement

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Consists of a triangular pattern with a strong L-line. One side usually heavier than the other side.

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Boutonniere

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Small floral piece worn by men generally consisting of a few small flowers.

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Corsage

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More elaborately designed/constructed than a boutonniere. Designed to be worn on a womans shoulder/wrist/hair

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Floral Preservative

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Fresh floral foods, special mixtures used to prolong the vase life of cut flowers/foliages. Contain Sugar, biocide, and acidifier

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(Color?) Harmony

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(Combinations of colors pleasing to the viewers eye) Blended in a pleasing relationship

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Oasis or Floral Foam

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Holds stems in place and gives a supply of water to the plant materials.

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Radiation Rhythm

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?

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Rhythm

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Related, orderly movement, apparent flow of lines, textures, and colors

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Sphagnum Moss

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Used to hide the mechanics of the floral foam/stems

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Stem Wrap

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?

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Symmetrical Arrangement

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Formal, equilateral triangular design. Left/ right sides form near mirror images w/ eachother. Usually as tall as it is wide.

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Unity

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All the parts of the design combine without noticeable separation

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Wood Pick

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?

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Soe

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The man of a ikebana

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Spike-type Flower

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?

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Straight Wire Method

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?

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Tai

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The earth of an ikebana

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Tuzzy-Muzzy

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Small nosegay-style boquets, placed in bowls. Used as table centerpieces