Once you can keep moss alive, it becomes a material. Six things people make with it, each with its own guide.
Kokedama
The Japanese "moss ball": a plant whose roots are wrapped in soil, bound with moss and string, and hung or set on a dish. A forgiving first project.
Terrariums
A closed glass jar is a near-perfect moss home: high humidity, soft light, no drying wind. Cushion mosses keep their shape under glass for years.
Bonsai carpets
A skin of moss over a bonsai's soil keeps roots cool and damp, stops the surface washing out, and finishes the tree with a settled, aged look.
Living walls
Moss panels green a shaded wall with almost no weight and no irrigation once established, soaking up rain and cooling the surface.
Japanese moss gardens
The moss gardens of Kyoto treat the carpet itself as the planting, with stone, water and a few trees for structure. Quiet, and deep.
Moss graffiti
Paint a moss slurry onto a shaded wall in a shape or letters, keep it misted, and it grows into a living design.