Sell them singly or build a bouquet – an easy impulse gift by the stem, with the option to combine several into a higher-value ready-made arrangement.
Flowers with staying power – cheerful felt blooms that never wilt, need watering or leave sad petals around the shop.
Handmade in Nepal – produced by a long-standing AW felt supplier whose work provides valuable employment for women from villages around the Kathmandu Valley.
Flexible stems, plenty of possibilities – arrange them in vases, wreaths, gift baskets, wedding displays or colourful shop windows.
Gifting opportunities throughout the year – ideal for Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, birthdays, weddings, housewarmings and those useful little “just because” presents.
Made for a bright wholesale display – group the different flower styles together near the till or in a simple vase; they also cross-sell naturally with home décor, gift bags and other Nepalese felt pieces.
Flowers from the Kathmandu Valley
These felt flowers come from one of AW’s long-standing suppliers in Nepal, a business with a particularly worthwhile purpose. It creates regular employment for women from villages around the outer Kathmandu Valley, where opportunities for those without higher education can be limited.
The work does not require formal qualifications, but it certainly requires skill: steady hands, patience and a good eye for shape and colour. These are talents the women already had; the workshop gives those talents a practical value and provides much-needed income for their families and communities.
Felt making is wonderfully low-tech. Loose wool fibres are worked with warm water, soap and plenty of rubbing and rolling until they bind together into a strong, dense material. The felt is then cut, shaped and carefully assembled into petals, leaves and flower heads before being fixed onto the stems.
Because so much is done by hand, small differences in shape, size and colour are quite normal. They are not factory-perfect plastic flowers—and that is rather the point.
Behind one cheerful flower lies a whole chain of skilled work: preparing the felt, shaping the petals, building the flower, attaching the stem and checking the finished piece for export.
This is one of those products that becomes even nicer when your customers know who made it and why the work matters. A little piece of the Kathmandu Valley, ready to brighten a vase somewhere much further from home.
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