The MYSTERIOUS Victorian Flower Language + Beginner's Guide to Floriography!
Quill & Compass History
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The MYSTERIOUS Victorian Flower Language + Beginner's Guide to Floriography!
6 582 просмотра · 1 г. назад
Quill & Compass History
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6 582 просмотра · 1 г. назад
Your Victorian engagement could be broken, your reputation destroyed, or a declaration of war sent... all with a single flower! 💐💣
In an era of rigid social constraints, where a chaperone's shadow was always near, how did Victorians secretly express passion, relay warnings, or send devastating insults?
Why did a society obsessed with cataloguing plants turn the simplest garden bloom into a complex, unspoken Victorian language?
And why did this secret code cause a "dictionary war" where the meaning of a single rose could change depending on which book you read?
Watch to discover:
🥀 The flower arrangement to change a compliment into an insult 🤯
🥀 Why carrying a floriography dictionary was the Victorian language equivalent of having the latest smartphone app 📚
🥀 How the collision of botany obsession and emotional suppression created the perfect storm for floriography to flourish! 🌸
Discover Victorian language and see how flowers became a dangerous communication tool of the 19th century.
BONUS: You'll get to learn the basic meanings of flowers and arrangements so you can start sending or decoding messages yourself!