Flannel Flower story
This panel was extremely sought after in its day
and is still to this day one of the most
inquired about panels. The Flannel Flower seemed
to be only found in the more prestige homes of
its era. Racquel was once told that if we ever
found and reproduced this panel that she would
be the Queenie of Pressed Metal in Australia.
We are extremely proud to release the Flannel
Flower panel for people across the globe to now
once again enjoy.
The pattern was reproduced for a large project
under taken by David Peeks from Period Details
in Hawthorn VIC. David is like us and has a
passion for period products. He undertook this
huge job of removing all the samples we needed,
to reproduce the fine examples for this project.
He carefully removed all the panels and cornices
by hand. Removing all the old nails gently so
not to damage the original panels. Removal of
all the old panels was a huge, tiring and dirty
job (quite sure he enjoyed it immensely though).
Our deal was that we would reproduce all the
panels as a package deal in order to get the
Flannel Flower panel.
He then packed them carefully and sent them
through to us to undertake the mammoth task to
reproducing these panels, cornices and boarders.
This took us months of continual work with a lot
of late nights and weekends to reproduce all the
patterns.
All the new patterns from this project include
the Flannel Flower, The Ophir, Alexandria,
Infill Panel, Savannah, Ella-May Cornice,
Carnival Cornice, Egg Border, Wattle Border and
Rosette (with leafs to match each cornice).
Once we completed each project and returned the
new reproduced panels to David he installed them
himself. In the project he also used panels
already in production.
Removing the old sections and then reinstalling
the new ones was a challenge that David tackled
head on and put in some huge hours and late
nights. But it came up wonderfully and his
clients were thrilled with the end project.
All in all this challenge was a very satisfying
one for all involved.
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