Flowers made of ribbons: Kansas technique

Flowers from the ribbon by their own hands never went out of fashion. This is their distinctive feature. And now the products, decorated with flowers from ribbons, are somewhat more expensive, because there is a special beauty and warmth of human hands.

Many years ago such a hobby was very common. Then the flowers from the ribbons were made long enough, and it was a painstaking job. From the wide ribbons or cloth cut petals along the contour (special patterns for each type of flower), burned the edges of the petals, so that the thread did not spread and on the special rubber mat they gave the petals a shape. Before making the shape, the petals were kept in thick starch and dried. To give the volume and shape of the petals, there was a special set of "boules" - metal balls on the leg with a holder. The bulbs were heated on fire and squeezed out the bulge in the starched ribbon. Then the petals were gathered onto the wire, the stem was made of wire, then the petals were squeezed out in the same way. According to this technique, making a flower from a ribbon took quite a long time.

Today, this technique has already outlived itself. Now the flowers from the ribbons are made quite quickly in a slightly different way. The Kanzash technique, which came to us from Japan , is very popular. Initially Kanzas meant knitting needles, with which the Japanese kept long hair. Approximately in the seventeenth century, they were transformed not just into hair clips, but into hairpins with flowers. This transformation helped the Japanese geishas, who always looked impermissible luxuriously, because of which they brought upon themselves the wrong attitude on the part of the Europeans. Such flowers from ribbons were first solitary and each flower was attached to its hairpin. Then with perfection of technique of Kanzash on one hairpin began to do the whole bouquets, and then - some pins were joined together and the flower fields on a head at women were received. It can not be said that this was an exhaustive search. Flowers from ribbons look very gentle and cause an extraordinary sense of aesthetic pleasure.

How to make flowers from ribbons? Everyone can learn this. In the network there are special interest groups where the Kanzas handymen communicate, who gladly share their masterpieces with secrets. Let's describe the simplest way to make the most primitive flower.

In order to make flowers from ribbons, you need a tape (ribbon) five centimeters in width, matches or a lighter, glue (better quick-drying and very strong), ruler, thread and needle.

1. We cut the tape into six pieces of ten centimeters;
2. Corner ribbons bend inward, and the edges are fired, only very carefully;
3. We do exactly the same with all parts;
4. We turn the received blanks and just bend the edges inwards and bake them;
5. Now we put everything on the thread and squeeze it a bit, like in an assembly;
6. Under the glue we glue the circle, the smaller the flower in diameter, so that it can not be seen from under the petals;
7. On glue we fix a circle, we give to dry;
8. Inside the flower, on the middle of the tweezers we plant beads - six pieces in a circle. Ideal looking small white pearl beads, laid out in the form of a flower.

Everything, the flower from a tape is ready. The lushness of a flower depends on how many petals are made, what is the thickness of the material from which the ribbon is made. Very beautiful look combo flowers - if the tape, for example, from silk and capron, or satin and organza. Then the flower will have petals of different length and thickness. Ideas for creating flowers from ribbons - a huge variety. They can be used for decoupage items, decorating hats, making wedding attributes. The main thing is the desire to create beauty, and everything is necessarily obtained.