How to make kanzashi hair clips: a master class for beginners

Fashion for original jewelry and accessories will always exist. The modern trend is hand-made style. Things made using the kanzashi technique look very impressive and fabulously beautiful : hairpins, headbands, brooches. It is not difficult to make such an ornament. In addition, it does not require expensive materials. Simple tips will help you create an original hair jewelry that is right for you.

Materials

To make kanzashi hairpins, you need the following:

• Frame (base), which you buy specifically or take from unnecessary decoration.
• Satin ribbons (color and width - at your discretion). You can use a suitable cloth.
• Scissors.
• Ruler (it is more convenient to measure the workpiece).
• Lighter, candle for processing edges and joining workpiece layers.
• Tweezers, clamp, forceps.
• Threads with a needle.
• Thermal gun.
• Decor (beads, beads).

So, nothing special is being used. Ribbons are available and inexpensive. If there is no thermal gun, you can do without it.

How to stack simple elements?

To make beautiful kanzashi hairpins, it’s enough to master just one simple way of manufacturing parts.

Blanks can be made single-layer, two-and three-layer. It is better to combine these balls from ribbons of different colors, and if there is a suitable fabric, then with squares from it. Choose the size of your choice.

To make single petals, work like this:

1. Cut the squares out of the tape.
2. Work the slices above the flame (melt the edges).
3. Fold the square in half.
4. Fold the resulting triangle in half twice.
5. Fuse the lower edge in the flame and firmly connect it with a clamp or tweezers so that the layers of the petal completely fuse along the lower boundary.

How to make a petal of several squares?

To make a double or triple petal, proceed as follows:

1. Cut the desired number of squares. For one petal - 2 or 3, respectively. You can use tapes of the same width, then you will have to cut the lower border of the workpiece in the future. If you immediately take squares of different sizes, you do not need to do this.
2. Fold each square separately in half. And again in this way - all the resulting triangles.
3. Lay the prepared parts on top of each other according to size (larger - smaller).
4. Fold the prepared multi-layer construction in half.
5. Fuse the bottom edge of the part by treating it with a flame of a candle or lighter and pressing it with tweezers. If your lower border is uneven (the ribbons were the same size), trim it with scissors first.

You can assume that you have already learned how to make kanzashi hair clips. A master class will help to master the assembly process of the product. You will see that, in fact, there is nothing complicated in it.

Kansashi hair clips: do it yourself with your own hands !

The simplest jewelry can be easily made on the basis of invisible flowers.

The sequence of execution is as follows:

1. Prepare the required number of single, double or triple petals made using the technology described above.
2. If you prefer petals resembling the shape of a ringlet, cut off the lower corners of the blanks.
3. Connect in series all the petals in a circle, using thread (fishing line) with a needle, a heat gun or fusing the workpieces with heat treatment.
4. Cut out a circle of cardboard in size or slightly smaller than the base (back side) of the flower.
5. Cut a circle of a larger diameter from the fabric or tape than the cardboard part.
6. Put the cardboard blank on the wrong side of the fabric and pull the edges of the circle along the contour with a needle and thread.
7. Glue the prepared part with cardboard to the flower. The reverse side of the flower turned out neat and dense. No gluing between the petals is visible.
8. Put glue on the hair clip and press the flower to it.
9. After drying, decorate the front side: glue a bead in the center, a drop-shaped pearl can be glued in the middle of each petal. Apply glitter gel or nail polish to the ends of the petals.
10. Make the second such hairpin (usually made in pairs) in the same way.

Kansashi hair clips: master class

A more complex, even asymmetric design can be made on the basis of automatic hair clips, metal or with a rubberized insert.

Work like this:

1. The main element is to take the same flower as for small hairpins. Make all the petals and combine them into a flower according to the technology described above. In different hairpins you can change the number, size of the petals, combinations of single and multi-layer parts.
2. In this case, the basics in the form of a circle for a flower can not be performed, but you will need to make a substrate strip made according to the size of the hairpin. This frame element will be made similar to a circle. However, you should not take cardboard that is too thick if you need to glue the decor on an arched surface.
3. To create a beautiful hair clip made of ribbons ("kanzashi"), in addition to the central flower, perform a few more smaller ones, but on the same principle.
4. Place smaller flowers symmetrically or asymmetrically relative to the center.
5. Perform elements in the form of leaves and twigs. Place them on the base to the right and left of the center.
6. Use additional decor from beads, feathers and other suitable elements.

As you saw, making beautiful kanzashi hair clips is easy. The main thing is to master one of the basic methods of folding blanks, and you can combine them into a finished decoration according to the model from a photograph or, having shown a little imagination, in accordance with your individual author’s idea.