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Article: FROGS STEM FROM JAPAN, BUT NAME BLOSSOMED IN U.S.(Life and Arts)(Column)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- October 20, 2001
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Byline: MARTHA STEWARTCOLUMNIST
Q: Can you tell me about flower-arranging "frogs"? How did they get their name?
- James McE. Brown, Stonington, Conn.
MS: A flower frog is an implement designed to sit in the bottom of a bowl or vase and hold flower stems in place - keeping arrangements in exactly the shape the arranger had in mind. They come in many forms: Some look like metal pincushions, some resemble freestanding toothbrush holders, others are graceful figurines with strategically placed holes made for blooms. The earliest known versions date back to 14th-century Japan, where they were essential to the art of flower arranging, or ikebana. ...