Algeria - Rabia Khureis
The Algerian artisan, Parish Nadia revealed secrets of drying and decorating flowers as well as its use in interior decoration of the house.
Since her childhood, she was aspiring to storm the world of drying and decorating flowers. She is trying to exploit everything related to nature in the manufacture of bouquets of wonderful flowers, pointed out that she uses tree branches, leaves, cinnamon, cloves, peach and apricot kernel, pumpkin seeds, pistachios, carob, pine, date kernel and palm fronds, in the flower industry.
Parish Nadia explained in interview with Arabs Today that she works on drying flowers, and then forms them in the form of bouquets of roses, used in interior decoration of the house, as well as luxury hotels and even institutions. She added that the length of time she takes to form these bouquets is vary between bouquet and other, indicating that there are bouquets made in a week, and others take a month.
Regarding the colors she prefers, the designer explained that she is usually painting them to put her own touch and a kind of vitality on these designs. She noted that her works have been very popular by the Algerians.