They certainly knew a thing or two about flower arranging in the 1930s. Green foam bricks had yet to be invented, so the church flower ladies relied on wire mesh, pre-cut to size, or shaped into a metal squiggle. Just placing the flower inside the wire ensured the stem was imprisoned at a jaunty angle, a brilliantly simple invention, an instant structu…
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