Step by Step Tutorial: Wall Décor on Palm Sunday 2013

Here’s the wall décor at St. Peter Cathedral Church, Bandung on March 24th, 2013 - the Palm Sunday. Gorgeous.

The credit goes to Margriet Team for this lovely church wall decor, in which the coordinator for the Palm Sunday is Mrs. Diana.

The materials used are (A) ‘yellow’ palm leaves, (B) ballon plant or asclepias fruitcosa, (C) flowers of ‘red’ palm, (D) cycas, (E) woven & braided palm leaves. You can find how to weave and braid the palm leaves here.

You also need the leaves of lady palm (raphis exelsa), cordyline, ruskus hypophyllum and leather leaf (arsionides). They’re not seen in the image.

First, prepare the base of the leaves arrangement. It contains of multiplex board, floral foam covered with plastic bag and chicken wire.

Then, starting to arrange the leaves. These are the step by steps.

2.         Place the lady palm leaves around the floral foam

3.         Take 2 stalks of big ‘yellow' palm leaves, then place them on the top left

4.         Take 2 sticks of braided palm leaves, place them on the right bottom of the arrangement.

5.         Take some stalks of small ‘yellow’ palm leaves. Put them on the left bottom.

6.         Take 3 sticks of woven palm leaves, bend a bit then place them as the center of the arrangement so that it looked like triangle.

 7.         Then fill the empty place with cordyline and ruscus.

8.         Last, place the ballon plant or asclepias fruitcosa somewhat to the middle, slightly above the braided palm leaves. Done.

The up close look

Note:

The image taken on Palm Sunday, March 24, 2013 at Cathedral St. Peter Church, Bandung.