Kanzashi (kanzashi ) - hair ornaments, traditional for women in Japan and China. Since the national costume of Japanese women does not have any beads, necklaces or bracelets, and the women wanted to express themselves somehow, they began to decorate hairstyles by making sticks or hairpins with flowers. They are made of satin ribbons and injected into straight hair, which is laid in bizarre shapes.
Now Kansashi flowers are decorated with hair accessories all over the world. Hairpins and scallops, bows. And they even decorate clothes and all sorts of other crafts. In the article we will look at how to make a white kanzashi bow from satin ribbons, how to decorate them, what tools you can buy for this.
What is necessary for work?
If you want to seriously engage in the manufacture of such jewelry, to master this technique for starting a business, then you will need a complete set of tools that allow you to perform work quickly, efficiently, accurately.
If you just want to check if you can make white bows for your daughter on September 1 using the kanzashi technique, then for now you can do the most necessary.
- Tweezers. It can be any, suitable for plucking eyebrows, but it is more convenient, of course, to use a medical one.
- Scissors. Needed for cutting ribbons. Must be sharp, even and long.
- Glue. Experts advise taking the “Moment Crystal” the best option, because in the manufacture of satin colors you will have to glue not only elements from ribbons, but also attach small pebbles, beads, metal hairpins. For professional use, you can buy an adhesive gun, which at high temperature more securely fastens parts of the flower.
- Often, details of bows or floral decorations are sewn together. Before starting work, you need to purchase durable threads that fit the tone of the ribbons, because they absolutely should not stand out against the background of the product.
- Needles and pins with bead heads. Suitable for stitching and fastening parts together.
- Naturally, you need to have the actual ribbon from which the flowers will be made. For a white kanzashi bow, you can choose not only snow-white ribbons, but also shade them with blotches of a different color. First you need to choose which decoration will be made.
- Often jewelry has additional elements made of plastic, beads, buttons, balls, etc. In the sewing accessories store, even before you start working, you can pick up the necessary details for decorating the product.
- Some tapes must be cut during production, and the ends of the fabric may begin to flake. To avoid this, you need to have at hand a device for burning edges. It can be a candle or a simple lighter.
Recommendations when buying tapes
For beginners, it is recommended to make a white kanzashi bow from satin ribbons. Then you can take reps, but it’s harder to work with them. The material for the future product must be dense, then the shape of the flower will be preserved. If the ribbons are soft, the bow is made, but the petals ugly fell and droop, then do not be discouraged. Even now you can correct the situation by treating the decoration with hairspray.
When choosing a tape, you need to view it along its entire length so that there are no places with skewed or uneven thread tension in the fabric.
To get started, try making a classic version of white kanzashi hair bows, consisting of ribbons of the same color. Then you can experiment with the addition of petals of other shades or inserts, select various materials.
Simple sharp petal
Such a petal is used in most kanzashi flowers. It is not difficult to do it, and the products look elegant. There are many options for combining elements.
Let's see how a simple basic petal is made step by step:
- Cut squares from a satin ribbon 5 cm wide of the color you want. You can take one color, or two or even three. Since the petals must be inserted one into another, the second tape is taken 4 cm wide, the third, respectively, 3 cm. When the desired number of identical blanks is prepared, proceed to the next step.
- Squares are formed by opposite corners on the wrong side of the tape. The edge is glued with a small drop of glue by pressing with tweezers. It is necessary to hold a little to glue seized. When everything has dried well, we begin folding the petal.
- The resulting part must be turned to the front side, while the remaining corners are interconnected. It turns out double petals.
- Their edges are temporarily held together with a pin. They turn out long, but this is not necessary for work. Therefore, they take one more step.
- Extra millimeters need to be cut with sharp scissors under the ruler. And the edges are glued with Moment-Crystal glue, holding them with tweezers.
- Simple sharp petals are made, you can form a flower from them, fastening the finished elements together.
White Kanzashi bow: a master class
Let's start training with the simplest stars. In fact, making flower petals is easy. The main thing in the work is to act carefully so that they all turn out to be the same size. First, trapeziums are cut out according to the drawn pattern. The longer its sides are, the larger the finished product will be.
The edges are glued together with a thin spreading along the edge of the lateral sections of the trapezoid. Do this from the wrong side of the tape. After the parts have dried, they are carefully turned on the glossy front side.
It remains only to glue them by attaching the petals next to each other. You can make several layers of such stars using ribbons of different thicknesses. Then the white kanzashi bow will be more magnificent. The middle can be decorated with a large bead or button. When the flower is ready, it is sewn to an elastic band or glued to a metal barrette.
Stitched rose
To make such a pretty rose, you need to carefully work on each petal. Rectangles of the same size are cut for each petal. Take a close look at how to make them for the white kanzashi bows in the photo. First, a corner is bent on one side twice, and similarly on the other. The edges are sewn along the wrong side. The resulting petal is again turned on the front side.
It remains to glue the necessary number of petals together. A rose from several layers looks beautiful. A large pebble is glued into the middle.
Petals folding
With the kanzashi technique, white bows for the school can be made not only from satin ribbons, but from matter, it is desirable that its edges are not split. The same circles are cut according to the pattern, as shown in the photo below.
Then each circle is folded four times. Then a wide rounded edge is put on a needle folded as follows. First the edge, then bent in half, at the end the other edge.
Staple together
The next step in the manufacture of such white kanzashi bows will be to stitch together all the petals that were strung on the same needle and thread during the manufacturing process.
You can make jewelry only from white material, or you can alternate colors using two, as in the photo, or even more. The thread should be simple and tight so that the petals are held tightly together.
Ready bow
After all the elements are firmly sewn, it remains to decorate the central part of the flower so that no seams are visible. To do this, you can use a smaller bow made of chiffon or tulle. Also, in hardware stores, it is recommended to pre-buy parts that are suitable in color and shape for the design of the middle.
A small flower made from brocade ribbons is suitable. When the design is fully completed, it remains only to attach the product to an elastic band or hairpin.
Additional decorations
In addition to white kanzashi bows, you can come up with several options for the middle, covering the seams and joints of glued petals. These are shiny pebbles or half beads inserted in metal holders, rhinestones that simply stick to the material, whole beads or buttons that are sewn with thread. For a little girl, you can make cartoon acrylic beads, for example, Hello Kitty. Other acrylic details are suitable - butterflies, hearts, flowers. Shambhala will look beautiful round and shiny.
The choice of accessories is great, you can spend hours standing in front of the store counter and choosing the right ones. If you need a lot to work, then there is the ubiquitous Internet, on the sites of which there is even more choice. The main thing is to decide and sit down at work. And it will turn out necessary. Good luck