The holiday Martisor, associated with the arrival of Spring, is popular in Eastern Europe. Usually on March 1, friends and relatives give each other red and white jewelry that they attach to clothes and wear until the time when the trees bloom. Then these products are hung on the branches. Such a souvenir can also be bought in a store, but most often it is made independently. Making a mercisor with your own hands is not difficult. Below are a few ways. Even children can make a souvenir out of paper or thread.
Ways to create a souvenir
There are several legends about Martisor. They tell a little differently about how Spring fights with Winter, which does not want to retreat. The mythical character meets a snowdrop blooming through a hollow in a snowdrift and at the cost of his blood and life saves a freezing flower. That is why when creating a souvenir, two colors are used - white, as a symbol of snow and red, meaning blood.
You can make a mercisor with your own hands as follows:
- From threads in the form of pompons, brushes or pupae.
- Crochet.
- In the technique of paper applications.
- Using quilling elements.
- Weave Macrame.
- Run from beads.
- Sew from fleece or other material.
The most important thing is to comply with the color scheme, making elements (usually two of them) of red and white colors. Both parts are connected together with a rope consisting of weaving the threads of these two shades. Instead of red, pink is sometimes used, and you can also see souvenirs where an additional green tone is taken for making leaflets, because often a gift for the spring holiday is made in the form of flowers.
Quilling technique
Using this method, you can make a very beautiful mercisor with your own hands out of paper. You will need two sheets - white and red. If you perform flowers, you can also take green to decorate the stems and twigs.
Manufacturing technology will be as follows:
- Cut the paper into strips about 5 mm wide.
- Using a toothpick, skewer or needle, wind the strips onto the tool and perform the desired number of elements of various shapes. The tips are fixed with glue.
- Connect the details as a flat or volumetric decoration.
Such a product will effectively look like a pendant, brooch, volumetric composition or even a whole panel.
Applique
If the previous method seems too complicated and time-consuming for you, and you need to make souvenirs quickly, you can make a mercisor with your own hands from paper by simply cutting out two identical shapes, for example, in the form of a flower, from a white and red sheet and connect them to a ribbon or rope.
A paper part will look even more spectacular if it is made in the form of a relief or a three-dimensional object. The easiest way is to stick the cut parts to the base. By the way, in this case it is good to use velvet, textured paper or slightly metallized, mother-of-pearl. Even fleece is taken as an application material. This is a fabric whose edges do not crumble. When using it, not only stitching of elements is allowed, but also gluing.
Use thread
This is the easiest way to create a spring gift. Even children can handle the proposed options. You can make a mercishor with your own hands from threads using the following methods:
- In the form of flat circles wrapped in yarn.
- Having made volume pompons.
- Collecting brushes.
- Connecting threads in the form of humanoid pupae.
The first option is the easiest. You only need a couple of round cardboard blanks with a hole in the center. A template in the form of a ring will do. The original form is wrapped with thread. Narrow satin ribbons are also good . It is necessary to firmly fix the beginning and end of the thread. You can connect the two elements together using a manufactured two-color interwoven flagellum.
Pompons are made using a similar technology, they take two identical blanks for only one part, and after wrapping them with yarn, they cut it around the circumference and gently bind the product in the center. It turns out a shaggy ball.
To make brushes, the threads are wound not on a round, but on a rectangular pattern on the narrow side. The completed workpiece is tied with thread from one edge, and cut from the other. Then the “head” of the brush is formed by dressing the resulting bundle of yarn at a small distance from the edge. From the resulting brush, if you continue to create the form, you can get a doll-figure in a stylized skirt or trousers.
Do-it-yourself mercisor bead
If you have a fishing line and a special needle and you are fond of this technique, weave a souvenir in the form of balls, flowers, dolls, hearts, bows, twigs - in a word, in such a way as your fantasy tells you. Objects can be either flat or three-dimensional.
You can connect them in the form of a pendant, brooch or even a bracelet. By the way, it is beautiful to make it entirely from beads or glass beads of appropriate shades and complement it with voluminous hanging figures of any configuration.
Do-it-yourself crocodile martisor
If you own this tool, then making a spring souvenir is not difficult.
Details can be made in the form of balls by tying a bead or filling out a form with a synthetic winterizer. It is easy to tie flowers in any pattern.
An original mercisor with your own hands can happen if you connect two characters of the corresponding shades, for example, little men.
So, making a mercisor with your own hands is quite simple. The main thing is to have on hand material in two colors - red and white. The choice of equipment depends on how much time you are willing to spend on making a gift and whether you want to learn new types of needlework.