Sabina Miller
Wax Flower Making
The Traditional Art of Waxed Flowers
2/1/2024
Location: Tourism Travel Center
City: Gray, Louisiana
Email: sabinabiz@yahoo.com
Description: Tradition bearer, Sabina Miller, facilitated a wax flower making workshop as a part of a Black History Month event sponsored by the Finding Our Roots African American Museum. Sabina Miller provided participants with a history and demonstration of wax flower making, as well as assistance to participants as needed. By the end of the event, participants learned to create a wax flower bouquet by cutting a pattern, assembling the flower parts, and dipping the flower in wax.

Workshop participants and tradition bearer, Sabina Miller, pose together with their completed wax flowers.
photo credit: Courtesy of Sabina Miller.


Workshop participants listening to instructions.
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Workshop participants creating wax flowers for their bouquets.
photo credit: Courtesy of Sabina Miller.


Tradition bearer, Sabina Miller, with her hand-made wax flowers.
photo credit: Courtesy of Sabina Miller.


An up-close example of various hand-made wax flowers.
photo credit: Courtesy of Sabina Miller.