950 Silver Iris Flower Bouquet | Handmade Art Gift

Material & Craft
Every stem of this iris flower bouquet starts as wax — petals carved by hand, edges crimped and veined, then cast in 950 silver by the lost-wax method. That is 95% pure, above the 92.5% sterling standard. Three open blooms, one bud still closed, and a single leaf blade, each cast separately and joined stem by stem. The surface is left matte rather than mirror-polished, so the ruffled petals catch light the way iris petals do at dusk, not like metal. Wrapped in hand-torn, tea-stained paper and tied with jute twine, exactly as photographed.

Displaying & Gifting
Tradition assigns each anniversary a metal and a flower. For the twenty-fifth, the metal is silver and the flower is the iris — which makes this iris flower bouquet both at once, and the only thing on that list you don’t have to throw out after a week. At 150 mm it stands in a narrow vase or stays in its paper on a desk. A silver flower bouquet reads well for a birthday or a new address too. For a lighter gesture from the same maker, there is the mini lily bouquet and the lily of the valley bouquet.

About This Piece
The flower is named for Iris, the Greek messenger who walked the rainbow between the gods and the ground — she carried down what people could not say themselves. That is the job the flower kept: hope, wisdom, a message worth the trip. Silver suits the errand. It does not fade on the way, and it does not pretend the season isn’t coming. A cut bouquet of iris keeps its promise for a week. This iris flower bouquet keeps the same posture through late autumn, and the autumn after that.