The " Moss Mottos" of Thailand

When we went to the flower festival on the weekend, it was really interesting because at the end of the parade route they parked all the floats and you could walk up and see them up close. I did not get all the pictures I wanted because the memory card was full and I could only get Alan to (grudgingly) erase a few pictures so I could get some close ups of the floats. I was struck by how similar they are in some ways to the moss mottos of Upper Canada Village. The ladies of the domestic unit there should be interested in a couple of types of flowers that were the mainstay of a lot of floats. They are the same flowers that are a used for a lot of the detail work on the UCV moss mottos:























I thought that they may have used these so they could do some of the work ahead of time. Huge areas of the floats were done with daisies and mums. Their floats only had to last 2 days for the festival, but they were so detailed and huge that they must have needed to use flowers that look good for a long time in order to get them started. Below is an example of some of the detail that they had. Below is a picture that was about 1/3 of the side of one of the floats. (see some pictures of the finished floats on the post by Alan a couple of days ago)



















I was staggered by the scale of the undertaking. Luckily for them, they were not restricted to the technology of 1866 and I saw lots of evidence of the use of styrofoam, hot glue and even a nail gun. On one float each of the fresh flowers had a nail right through the center. I could think of one or two people who might derive satisfaction from using that nail gun to put the flowers in place!