Flower of wire and nylon: how to make a rose

At one time, at least a couple of supermodern kapron pantyhose was the dream of every Soviet girl. Today they make up a significant part of each girl's spending on "pin-pins", because they very quickly tear and become worthless. If your wardrobe has old kapron tights, especially colorful, then they can find an interesting application. If not, in specialized stores you can find everything to make beautiful flowers from nylon and wire.

Materials that will be required

To make a separate flower or complex composition, you will need:

• Monochrome, multicolored, openwork or kapron with lurex. When choosing colors in the first two cases, it should be noted that when stretching on the wire, its color will become lighter.
• Stamens. They can be made independently by dipping thick threads in PVA and attaching heads to them from a mixture of clay and glue, or to purchase ready-made in a special store.
• Wire. You may need several types of different thicknesses, including those with a plastic coating of green for making stems.
• Threads. It is acceptable to use conventional sewing or special, which can not be tied, but fixed by simple winding.
• Tape tape is green.
• Tapes for decoration of compositions.
• The line.

Special tools and tools

To create a flower from wire and nylon, you will also need:

• Bases for buds, which are dense balls with a diameter of 2-7 cm;
• Forms for frameworks with a smooth and corrugated edge, which are sold in sets of several pieces;
• Sepals, plastic leaves;
• Scissors, round pliers, pliers;
• Glue gun.

How to make basic elements

Regardless of which flowers you want to make from nylon and wire, you need to learn how to make the base of the petal or leaf.

For this you need:

• Take a piece of wire 3 times longer than the length of the petal, if it should be round, and 2.5 - for elongated;
• Make the desired shape with scissors, using them to create denticles;
• Twist the ends of the wire;
• If on a leaf or a petal there are sharp denticles, they need to be coated with glue;
• Wait until dry;
• Cut a piece of nylon the size of a leaf + 1 cm on each side;
• Trail along the edge of a piece of capron line;
• Put on the resulting cheholchik on the frame;
• Pull;
• Form the screed at the base of the petal;
• If you can not find the nylon of the desired color, paint the blanks and leave to dry.

Assembly

When you have the right amount of petals and leaves ready, you can start making a flower of wire and nylon from them. For assembly, as a rule, the tail of the petals is bent and glued with hot-melt adhesive or the ends of the carcass are twisted.

There is another method, involving the folding of the petals together and wrapping them at the base first with a thread, and then with a green ribbon strip. Depending on whether it is a bud or a blossoming flower made of wire and nylon, the petals are left pressed against each other or straightened. In addition, if it is a question of a variant with stamens, it is first necessary to enclose such a thread with a head of the required length in the middle.

Flower of wire and nylon

Now that you have an idea of how the leaves and petals of these materials are made, you can try to create a beautiful half-blown rose with leaves on a long stem. Required:

• Kapron red and green colors;
• Wire diameter 0.5 mm;
• Thread of red, green colors;
• Wire with a diameter of 3 mm for the stem;
• Forms for petals;
• A center for a flower from a styrofoam, which can be replaced with a piece of cotton wool, tightly wrapped in crepe paper;
• Dark green teip tape.

Instruments

At hand you will need to have:

• pliers;
• handle;
• Set of forms for petals;
• scissors;
• Thread;
• Transparent nail polish.

Flowers from wire and nylon: a master class

For the manufacture of an elegant rose perform a number of actions:

• Using a wire (0.5 mm) of red color, make the basis for the petal;
• Leave a tail of 1.5 cm;
• 5 petals are made on the basis of form No. 6, 4 more are the same, but lengthening and giving ovality, using the cap from the handle;
• Another 5 master using the form number 7;
• Wrap each frame for a petal with a piece of capron and cut off excess.
• Wrap the petal with another layer of capron.

Assembling a rose

There should be 4 layers of petals. First, 5 of them are combined in size No. 7. Then 3 elongated shapes made according to pattern No. 6 and 3 of the same, but usual.

The last layer should consist of 3 petals. Two of them are ordinary and one is elongated. All three are made according to the pattern number 6.

After that:

• Cut off all the excess, protruding pieces of wire;
• Take the center for the flower from the styrofoam;
• Using the tip of the pliers, increase the hole in the base and insert the tip of the flower there;
• Tighten the middle of the rose with a red capron;
• Trim excess;
• They turn the middle 3 petals of the inner layer;
• The following three are bent upward;
• Wrap them around the middle;
• Continue to bend up and the other petals.

Leaflets

For their manufacture, form No. 4 and a wire for flowers made of nylon green (diameter 0.5 mm) will be required.

The wire loop is shaped into a thin, elongated oval. Wrap the green nylon. A drop of clear nail polish is applied to the tip. Then:

• Form 5 such leaves;
• With the help of a thread fix them under the flower of a rose;
• Wrap the joint with a green tap-tape.

Now you know how to create a flower from wire and nylon (master class see above), and you can make an original bouquet or composition as a gift to mom, grandmother or girlfriend.