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The Making of
Florilegium Solmentes
Nature prints & digital flowers
$300 (Quarter leather)
 Contents
This book tells the story of the Florilegium Solmentes project. It describes how the flowers were created using image-editing software and how the geometry of the flower led to some interesting diversions into the world of mathematics, optical illusions and pattern making. Included are eight original prints from leaves, (two with watercolour washes).

Florilegium Solmentes is a portfolio of twenty-four unique ‘digital’ flowers created by David Esslemont from ‘nature prints’ of leaves, from scanned petals and from other parts of plants found on his farm in northeast Iowa. Some flowers are wholly imaginary, others are loosely based on real specimens.

Illustrations
Numerous leaves, petals and flowers.together with optical illusions and patterns, all in colour. Eight nature prints from leaves, two with watercolour washes (see rasberry opposite).

Edition details
Published in October 2010.
Printed on Zerkall mould-made paper and bound in quarter leather with patterned paper sides.
79 pp., 10 x 6.5 inches (255 x 165 mm) – thirty copies, of which ten are reserved for Florilegium portfolios.



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