Trash-to-Treasure Apricot Flowers

The photos above compare the real apricot and fish-scale one that has been made by a Vietnamese undergraduate Biet, Le Ngoc. Through the duration of drawing apricot flowers, he discovered that beside the color, the scale is eerily similar to apricot blossom petals, leading to his attempt to fashion the scale into apricot flowers. The unexpected success of this effort inspired him to take a shot at peach flowers, a popular lunar new year decoration in the northern Vietnam. The life expectancy of this fake flowers lasts five or six years.

The process of production is not really hard. After drying and dying the scale, he used silicon adhesive to connect scales to a dry apricot branch. The most important stage is crafting the scale. He dipped scales into water for a month to test their integrity.

The photograph courtesy of Tuoi Tre Online