How can I make ribbons from ribbons?

Recently, this type of needlework, such as ribbon bows , has become increasingly popular . Traditionally, they were used to weave braids into girls. But for today the spectrum of their possibilities has extremely expanded. Today, beautifully tied or skillfully executed with the inclusion of beads, beads and other attributes, ribbon bows can adorn photos, women's haircuts, gifts and other products made by themselves.

Bows can be of different colors or absolutely monotonous, can have the most diverse forms. They are also small or very large. Appearance depends only on the imagination of a man who is fond of producing ribbons from ribbons.

In order to give such a trivial ornament in general trumpet, the master needs a certain dexterity of hands, patience and a rich imagination. When you create it, you have to experiment, add something new. When decorating a gift, it is necessary to remember that the color of the ribbons should be contrasted with the coloring of the packaging material and at the same time bright, when using years of several colors, they should not merge with each other.
Many of us believe that there is nothing difficult in making ribbons bows. To do this, you just need to tie two tapes - and everything will be fine. But this is absolutely not so. Tapes can simply be fastened together with knots, and can be sewn, chipped with beautiful brooches, stapled with a stapler, beads or glitter and even glued together.

The most popular bow, of course, is a classical bow. It is ideal for all types of packaging. The main condition for its implementation is that the tape in the finished product should not crumple and break.

You can make a universal bow. It should be noted that the bows of satin ribbons are ideal for the dress belt or perfectly adorn the hair hoop. It's also nice to get a chically wrapped gift, at the top of which a luxurious bow flaunts.

To work on this masterpiece we need a satin ribbon, the width of which will be at least one and a half sentiment. Cut this tape carefully into less than four segments (provided that each successive segment is a quarter shorter than the previous one). Now you need to glue these segments together or join them with a stapler (you can sew them as desired) so that the rings turn out, and stack them together. It is necessary to make sure that all the seams are one above the other strictly in the middle. The resulting pyramid needs the remaining piece of tape or a piece of ribbon of a different color to be fastened across, bandaging all three rings. It is possible to grab the last ring during the strapping only for the inner edge, so the strapping "will hide inward. But you can not hide it. Moreover, it is quite possible to use rhinestones or a ring made from a piece of beads. And you can simply tighten the rings with a normal thread, and then sew beads or glitter on this place. An important point here is the fact that the seams connecting the segments into the rings should be under the harness, it's not very nice if they are accessible to the human eye.

You can also make ribbons in the form of a flower, which is ideal for gift wrapping. The first step in creating such a product will be a ring, which will be made of satin or kapron tape. To perform this ring, you will need to hold the edge of the thumb and index finger. This procedure must be repeated until there are 10 or more such rings in the hand. The number of revolutions depends on the size of the bow, and, of course, on your desire. The resulting rings should be bandaged across the satin ribbon or sealed in the ways described above. Then you need to carefully spread the resulting petals. Here is our bow and is ready, now with ease it can be fastened on a gift or on a belt, on a hair rim or a hairpin.

These are just a few examples of how you can make bows. In fact, there are a lot of variants and each in its own way is original and magnificent.