The Craft
From Nanjing workshops to your wardrobe
Lunar Bloom draws on the centuries-old craft of velvet flower making (ronghua) — the art of shaping velvet into petals that last. Each piece begins as copper wire and velvet cloth, folded and pinched petal by petal until a flower comes to life.
Small velvet flowers for ordinary days — a bloom on a jacket, a comb in a ponytail, something quietly beautiful for the office, a coffee date, a weekend at the gallery. Each piece is shaped petal by petal over a copper-wire frame in our Nanjing studio: light enough to forget you are wearing it, pretty enough to reme...
Velvet flower craft: traditional technique of shaping velvet into floral forms. Learn more about the craft in our Journal.