My Ikebana: Cutting Up Curly Willow

Added on by the ikebana shop.

Ikebana practitioners love to work with curly willow branches. They show very interesting lines and curves that are a delight to use in arrangements. We’d normally take advantage of the long branches to express a strong profile or direction.

The challenge for this arrangement is to resist the temptation of using curly willow in its natural state. So we cut it up and re-assembled it!

Here is the whole arrangement.