A PRESSED-FLOWER BOOK No. 001
PERPETUAL EDITION PRICE: ONE WALK OUTSIDE
a real pressed poppy, cut out like a sticker

Flori
legio

every garden begins with a single flower

Photograph a bloom. Florilegio cuts it out like a sticker, presses it under a heavy pink stamp, and pastes it into a little book you keep. Real paper feeling, two riso inks, a visible fold.

TWO INKS & A FOLD NO FEED, NO LIKES, NO ACCOUNT PRINTED ON YOUR PHONE
A LEAF FROM THE BOOK
a pressed field marigold with a white die-cut edge
field marigold
Calendula arvensis
found by the bike path
a warm afternoon, late June
kept for M.

each flower gets a plate like this — photo, name, and a little story

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The ritual

Every flower goes through la prensada — seven small beats, none of them skippable. Rituals are not features. They are promises kept slowly.

  1. lay the photo on the sheet
  2. trace the bloom with a slow line
  3. free it from its background
  4. seal it with a white die-cut edge
  5. hold the press — feel the thump
  6. let it cure, unhurried
  7. christen it in your own hand

you hold your finger down and the whole phone thumps

The cure

A freshly pressed flower cures for 48 hours. The countdown lives quietly on your lock screen while the bloom settles into the book. Curing changes nothing about your flower except its story — like real pressing, the waiting is part of the keeping.

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Gifts

The best part: you can gift a flower. Send one to a friend and it appears in their garden — the picture, the name, the species, and a line saying who pressed it for them. A flower crossing the air from one book to another.

a pressed cornflower, ready to travel
to: someone you love
from: your garden
 

flowers were always meant to be given away

Flora, on device

Download the optional field guide and Florilegio names each bloom while you press it — species, and the common name in your language. The model reads 7,806 species and lives entirely on your phone.

optional download — pausable, resumable

nothing ever leaves your phone

7,806
species, named

it knew my dahlia on the first try

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