Hello all, I have been trying to find a good way to display my roses for some time now. I've been looking around on here but I cant find many pictures of vases or wall mounts etc. I'm thinking of a nice wood backer with the rose held out in front of it somehow but I still have not come up with anything that im happy with. Or a nice vase that you could display on a table or something.

 

So figured I could start a thread specifically for how to display your flowers/roses, show me what ya got!

I was looking for something similar last spring and couldn't find alot of examples so I just started looking around the shop for what I could use and this is what I came up with.



Two textured draft shoes riveted to a piece of textured plate with holes drilled into it for the flower stems.

I use it to display roses/ flowers at art shows and people can pick out the one they want to look at closer. I also would sell the whole display, though I would need to make another one because my wife loves it sitting on a window sill in our kitchen.


Here is a closeup of the stand.

I used a piece of pipe and made a vase, then wrapped rebar with a forged leaf end around it to hold it upright. http://dancingfrogforge.com/Images/Bouquet2.JPG

Anybody got any good vases made out of steel pipe? I have seen one or two and like the idea but still not sure where to start with making them.

I took an old tin, painted it black, filled it with sand and push the flower stems into the sand. Works well but not very classy.

It's a little heavy but I made this out of 1/4" round with 3/8" for the top and bottom.

I incorporated mine into a still life sculpture. 

 

 

I made this bunch of roses and we found an old brass artillery cartridge for a vase. I usually put a bit of brass burnishing on the roses, so the vase matched well. This vase has had some handles soldered on in the past. These old shells are not uncommon in my area of Australia and I'm sure secondhand stores around the place would have them. Common trench art objects. Here's a pic:

Both vases are made of 4" pipe. I cut notches out of one end folded them all together to form a sort of dome and welded it all up and flattened it down to make the bottom. Add some file work for decoration or wrap some vines around it.

That's a nice idea to wrap the vase with vines and leaves. And the fact that you made the vase from a lump of pipe is all the more special. Nice work.

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great guys thanks for showing all of your work. I sell a lot of the single roses that are typically at a lower price point and I have a lot of requests to make a holder for them that will not cost an arm and a leg... I have made a few simple ones out of a horseshoe and mounted on a nice wood backer but am always looking for more ideas. I've been trying to make something simple out of a piece of pipe or something but have not made anything I'm very happy with yet..

Ausfire: how do you get that brass finish on them? So those are steel with a brass finish?

Mate, it's pretty easy. You just get a brass brush from your hardware store. I usually take the rose from the forge and sandblast the scale off the hard to get at parts and then back into the forge to a warm heat - not red hot.
Apply the brass brush to produce the burnished effect where required.
Be wary when buying brass brushes. Some are falsely represented as brass, when in fact they are brass-coated steel. No good. Easy way is to carry a magnet with you. If the brush is attracted to the magnet, it ain't brass.

Oh ya I have done that before on small crosses and things like that but I guess I never thought to do it so it makes it look like a solid color on the pedals, might have to try that next time.... Thank you

 

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Nice arrangement there, Steve. Is that a couple of gum leaves and gum nuts I spy bottom left?? Little bit of Australia there?

 
 
Nice arrangement there, Steve. Is that a couple of gum leaves and gum nuts I spy bottom left?? Little bit of Australia there?

 

For this project  we had IFI members from the world over, sending in native (to them ) flowers and leaves for this one, more pics here

the mounting base 'vines" are textured like grape vines, that was Jerry Bennett 's  Idea

I've made a scrolled base from the stem. Drilled a hole in a rock. Mounted one in a piece of cool driftwood. That one didn't last long.

Try looking at flower shop displays, they have a great variety of ideas from various artists.

Some wonderful ideas there.  This has been a bit of a  question I've been rolling around in my head as my wife would like to see some sort of stand to go with the single roses.  What I have been thinking of though is a Brazeal  horseshoe heart with some to hold the rose up in.  Whether that's one end twisted up into a spiral or something socketed riveted on.  I think the heart as a base would make the roses quite desirable for Valentines Day.  Just have to find some time to get out and play in the shop... 

I always like the style of rough wood, roots, driftwood, barnwood, heavy timber chunks combined with black iron.  It gives the piece a nice organic look.

About 40 years ago, a student did this floral "vase" idea as a personal project, and he left it with me when he returned home. Aesthetically, it may not ring your bell, but it shows lots of techniques which he wanted to do. The vase is black iron pipe fullered and with a notch and wrap at the bottom. The stems are held in place with a hard putty. The petals are textured, thin gage steel with 3/16" round stamens. The base is edge hammered to a taper all around and sharp fullered around the inside edge. A standard was made by rolling flat stock and having it pierce the base where it was plug welded on the bottom.

This has no doubt been done before but I'll add it anyway. I have found people like to buy roses that stand up, so I form the stem into a simple circle base. If I do long-stem roses, they look good resting a long pine presentation box lined with fresh pine shavings off the plane.

I finally had a little time to play.  Managed to finish up a stand for a large forged rose.  Think I have the order of operations sorted out now.  Just a matter of having a good run on making hearts.  The tenon for the viny twist worked loose as I didn't get it riveted together as nicely as I had wanted so I cheated a little and flashed up the mig and glued it together.  That and half way through drawing out the vines I had a bright idea that it was a little late for...  put a small leaf on the end of a vine. 

Nice idea with the horseshoe heart. They would do very well on Valentine's Day.
This is what I meant by the presentation boxes for long-stem roses in my previous post: