Felt Flowers - Lily (10 assorted colours)

• Ten lilies, each with layered felt petals, delicate stamens, and a soft green stem, no two exactly alike.
• The colours vary across the set, bright orange, deep magenta, sunny yellow, violet, coral, creating an arrangement that feels abundant rather than uniform.
• The felt holds its shape without stiffening or wilting, so the petals stay open and the stems stand upright in a vase or tied loosely as a bunch.
• Each flower is light enough to tuck into a book or pin to a notice board.

Made in Nepal, where felt-making has long been a cottage craft, each lily is cut, layered and assembled. The wool felt is dyed before shaping, giving the petals their saturated colour. The slight variations in petal size and stamen length are part of the process, no two flowers come out identical, and that unevenness is what keeps them from looking mass-produced.

Stand them in a small vase or jar, tie them with string as a gift wrap accent, or scatter them across a table for a birthday or gathering. They suit a child's room, a craft studio, or anywhere a little handmade colour feels right. Dust them lightly with a dry cloth when needed; felt holds dust but releases it easily with a gentle shake.

Felt flowers have been made across the Himalayas for generations, originally as temple offerings and festival decorations. In Nepal, women's cooperatives have developed the craft into a cottage industry, creating botanically inspired forms, lilies, roses, poppies, that travel well and need no water. The lily, with its layered petals and prominent stamens, translates particularly well to felt, holding detail that simpler blooms cannot.

Ten felt lilies in assorted colours. The flowers sit comfortably in a small vase or mason jar.

It makes a thoughtful present for someone who loves flowers but travels often, lives in a dim flat, or simply prefers objects that last. The handmade quality and the fact that they never wilt tend to make them a keepsake rather than a temporary gesture.