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and then attach a wire-stem to it.

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43.

Maybe we can just stop here since the making of calyx is completed.

 

However, I think a calyx without a stem doesn't make sense. So I will just step out of origami folding-session to explain how to attach a wire-stem to a calyx and to a rose.

 

You need four items:

 

(1) green floral wire-stem: either 16 or 18 gauge would be fine but I prefer 16 gauge since it doesn't bend easily,

(2) 1/2" wide green floral tape,

(3) pliers,

(4) glue.

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44.

First, bend the wire with pliers.

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Sonnet- Silence



There are some qualities- some incorporate things,
That have a double life, which thus is made
A type of that twin entity which springs
From matter and light, evinced in solid and shade.
There is a two-fold Silence- sea and shore-
Body and soul. One dwells in lonely places,
Newly with grass o'ergrown; some solemn graces,
Some human memories and tearful lore,
Render him terrorless: his name's "No More."
He is the corporate Silence: dread him not!
No power hath he of evil in himself;
But should some urgent fate (untimely lot!)
Bring thee to meet his shadow (nameless elf,
That haunteth the lone regions where hath trod
No foot of man,) commend thyself to God!


Poem by Edgar Allan Poe




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