Is there a way to preserve or "Antique" flowers?

I saw it once on a T.V show, where they made the flowers (that were real) into an almost porcelein state. Is there any way to do this, or another way just to keep them, without freezing or hanging them up in a closet?

Is there a way to preserve or "Antique" flowers?
craft stores sell a product like dessicant that dries flowers. it is granular and you fill a glass half way with it, place the flower in, then continue filling.
Reply:What you saw was "freeze-dried" flowers but you can't create them in your own freezer. You need to freeze them and then reduce the air-pressure to zero, or basically that which you would find in outer-space.





At that pressure the boiling point of water becomes less than 32 degrees Fahrenheit (it's freezing temperature) and it converts directly from a solid to a gas without becoming a liquid again. This gives the item it's porcelain look and feel.





Now, while you can't do that without the aid of a very serious and expensive type of depressurization chamber, which itself is run and operated in a frozen meat locker, you can dehydrate your flowers to preserve them rather effectively.





Commercial food dehydrators with their temperature setting on the lowest it will go can dehydrate flowers in a couple hours.





For larger flowers though, I will often place them between a couple (clean) furnace air filters and tie the whole thing to a box fan and leave it on low for a day or so. The moving air wicks away the moisture in the plant in very short order before it can rot.