Kanzashi is a technique for creating jewelry from small pieces of fabric and ribbons folded in a special way. With flowers created from shreds in this way, geisha decorated their kimonos and hairstyles. Hair accessories and kanzashi brooches are often worn with national costumes, but they can add elegance to any look and transform even the most ordinary outfit.
Kanzashi Material
Patch flowers are used to create hairpins, rims, rings, bracelets. Such accessories can be made independently using regular satin ribbons. Some needlewomen create leather and vinyl products. Let's try to make an unusual brooch together. It is best to use not too dense material for work, it will be easier to fold. Silk and starched cotton will do.
What you need to create a decoration
We prepare the necessary materials. It:
- a small piece of cloth about 5 cm wide and 25 cm long;
- thick threads;
- high-quality sewing needles;
- scissors;
- beads and beads;
- a small piece of felt;
- glue gun;
- mount for brooches;
- pins.
How to make a kanzashi brooch from fabric: a master class
We cut the flap of the fabric so that we get five squares of the same size. It will optimally cut shreds measuring 5x5 cm.
Take one of the squares and fold it in half to make a triangle. The fold should be on the right. Lightly press the material with your finger, smoothing the line. Fold one of the halves again, creating a smaller triangle.
Bend the second corner back: on each side there are now triangles of fabric. We got the first petal. Cut off a few millimeters from the open edge and pin it with a pin. To fix the patch, you can use the invisibility, patchwork clamps or sew a blank with several stitches. This will make the middle of the flower more accurate and prevent the triangles from opening.
Repeat all the steps until we get 5 petals.
We collect a flower by sewing leaves to each other. First we make them in one line, then we sew the extreme shreds. We try to pierce the material with a needle as close to the cut corner as possible. The process itself is a bit like stringing beads on a string.
Having finished stitching the petals, we turn the workpiece over and overwrap the edges of the flower so that it keeps its shape. Do not worry if the stitches are not too smooth, later they will be closed with a felt blank.
Now you need to spread the petals. To do this, we turn the fold in the middle of each leaf, forcing the fabric inward. The middle should “fail”, and the edges should remain vertical. We continue to form petals until all 5 are straightened out. We have a blank for the kanzashi brooch in the form of a plum flower. It remains to decorate it with beads and make a back mount.
Decorating the center of the flower is optional, but the accessory will look more attractive if you highlight its details. You can sew a bead in the middle or add rhinestones by attaching them with a glue gun.
Turn the brooch over and apply glue to the corners to strengthen them. Then we cut out a pentagon from felt and attach the holder to it.
Now the product is ready. You can wear the resulting kanzashi brooch with pride, as it is created with your own hands.
Brooch from satin ribbons: tools for creating
An accessory does not have to be made so simple. If you add sharp petals, make curls, combine several types of fabric and textures, you get an interesting decoration that can be worn not only in everyday life, but also for festive events. Before you make a kanzashi brooch from ribbons, you need to prepare the material for work.
We will need:
- satin ribbon 4 cm wide;
- brocade tape 4 cm wide;
- stamens for flowers;
- glue gun;
- basis for a brooch;
- scissors;
- tweezers;
- lighter.
The process of making brooches from ribbons
We cut the tape into shreds of 4x4 cm. We will make double petals. To do this, add one diagonal of a satin and brocade ribbon diagonally and fix the tip with a lighter. We put pieces of tape on top of each other, connect the lighter on one side and fold in half. We bend one tip, and the other a little cut with scissors. We bend the cropped corner outward and collect the tips. Once again, cut off the edge and singe with a lighter so that the petal does not fall apart. Now you need to pull out the tip of the tape from the center. This is easier to do with tweezers.
Cut the edge, drip a little glue on the tip of the shred and bend it with tweezers into the workpiece. You should get a petal with a curl. Press it and cut off the back diagonally, singe the edge with a lighter. We make 6-7 such details. Additionally, as many simple triangular petals are made. Then we glue a piece of tape on the base so that the leaves hold better. We begin to assemble the kanzashi brooch. We apply glue to the base and form a flower: first we fix the layer with curled petals, add triangular leaves along the edges. We decorate the middle with stamens, collecting them in two pieces, paste a bead in the center. The kanzashi brooch for a dress or any other costume is ready!