Description
In the Victorian era, it was popular to use special meanings attached to different flowers to create bouquets that communicated a wide variety of sentiments that might be awkward or otherwise couldn’t be spoken aloud in prim-and-proper Victorian society. With the help of any one of many popular flower “dictionaries” available at the time, one could communicate blinding love, deep longing or crushing regret with a handful of carefully selected blooms. Even today, we still associate red roses with love.
This series of cards, illustrated by Larissa Sayer of Ravenhart Studio, features lovely botanical drawings of bouquets representing some thoroughly modern sentiments using this traditional “language of flowers”.
