Best REAL LOOKING Fake, Faux, Silk Flowers.

Jul 12, 20241 min read

How to choose the correct material your artificial blooms are made from.

Materials:

Polyester: This is the most popular choice for faux flowers. This fabric creates the most life like blooms. Polyester is great at accepting dyes and creating dramatic colorful blooms.
Pongee: This is a thin woven silk fabric and is now made with a mix of silk,cotton and rayon. The flower will have a stiff feeling to the tough. Similar to a starched crunchy fabric.
Real Touch (Polyurethane): Flowers are soft to the touch with a spongy feeling. They are made from plastics and hard to get bright flower colors like you can from fabrics.
PVC- Polyvinyl Chloride: Mostly used to make fake pine.
Plastic: Not as bad as you think. Soft plastic is great for greenery and filler flowers because they can mold the flower and get a more delicate impression and detail.
Eva- Foam: I would stay away from this type of flower. They do not look real and super fake.

Make sure your stems have realistic details to them.
1. Look for curves in the stems, color of the stem should be similar to the real flower.
  1. Examples: While the head of these Ranunculus look good the stems in a glass vase alone will scream fake. Use these type of flower stems in a non clear vase.

2. Add a small amount of water to a clear was it helps make them look more real.