How Do You Preserve Dried Flowers With Clear Resin?
Flowers often commemorate significant events and people have been saving dried flowers as a token of events for hundreds of years. The problem with saving dried flowers is that as the flower dries out, it becomes increasingly fragile and delicate, which makes handling or touching the flowers nearly impossible. This also means that displayed flowers will become dusty over time, and they cannot be cleaned without destroying them. One solution is to coat the flower in polyresin. Fill an airtight plastic container with one inch of silica gel. Do this in a location where the container will not be disturbed and is not in sunlight. Silica gel is a granular mixture that looks a little like salt. It can be reused for drying many times. Invert a small glass votive holder so that the glass bottom is just above the gel. Place one or more flower heads on the glass surface and seal the lid on the container. Allow three to five days for the flower heads to dry out. Remove the flower heads and use flo
