TY - BOOK AU - Lim, Leonard. TI - Essential ikebana SN - 9789814276528 [paperback] PY - 2009/// CY - Singapore PB - Marshall Canvendish Editions KW - Flower arrangement N1 - Contents: Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: rikka, shoka, jiyuka -- Getting started: Cutting stems, absorbing water, bending and shaping stems, basic writing techniques, holding stems -- The fundamental considerations: colour, shape, quality -- The materials: accessories, vases, equipment -- Freestyle in three movements: vertical, horizontal, slanting (step by step arrangements) -- Seeing in new light: line, surface, point, mass (step by step arrangements) -- Any vase will do (step by step arrangements) -- That special moment (step by step arrangements) -- Right at home. -- Till then ER -