Homemade organza bows can be so beautiful and original that you won’t find anything like this in a store. The material does not wrinkle and does not change shape after washing. How do they turn out so beautiful? Yes, in general it’s not very difficult. The article covers the entire process - the selection of necessary accessories for work, the scope of application of bows, interesting techniques for making them.
Required tools and materials
For work you will need the following materials:
- a piece of cardboard;
- five-centimeter wide organza ribbon;
- glue gun;
- tweezers;
- needle and thread;
- scissors;
- scrunchy;
- lighter or candle;
- satin ribbon, the same color as organza.
What can you use handmade organza bows for?
Using a bow, you can decorate your daughter’s hair by putting it in a ponytail or braids, or decorate a dress, a jacket, women’s shoes, or a wall panel. A gift will look great in a box neatly tied and decorated with a bow.
How to quickly and accurately make an organza bow
Using tapes
The technique is called kanzashi. A bow is made from individual petals like this: the ribbon is cut into 18 fifteen-centimeter sections. Each of the segments is folded in half, and a fold is formed in its center. The petal is secured with a candle or lighter; this is done with the following elements. For the base, a cardboard circle with a diameter of 3 cm is used.
It is wrapped in satin and a hair tie is glued to it using a glue gun. The next stage is to form a bow - the first six petals are glued so that they slightly overlap each other. For the second and subsequent rows, the number of petals is made one less - five, four, three. It turns out to be a luxurious bow.
Sewing bows from solid organza (canvas)
From the accessories for work, you will need the same list of tools that were indicated earlier. The hair elastic is attached with glue to a cardboard base, pre-wrapped with satin ribbon. The edges of the organza ribbon are melted, after which, slightly retreating from its edge, using a needle and thread they begin to pull the ribbon along one edge into a spiral. Using a glue gun, the tape is attached in a spiral. Then glue the edge, rolling it into a roll and gluing it into the middle of the resulting figure.
Features of creating different bows
Lush products
To make everything beautiful, elegant and lush, you can use not an ordinary ribbon, but a corrugated one - this will add additional volume. The use of the kanzashi technique in the work adds volume due to the large number of petals. It is also worth using white and light shades - orange, pink, light blue, they also look more magnificent.
Bow in the shape of a flower
To get an elegant product, either collect a flower in several rows using separate petals, and reducing their number with each row, or form four petals from each cut circle of fabric. To do this, you need to fold the circle in half twice, make an incomplete cut, leaving about a centimeter, and then cut out the corners, thus forming four petals. Then a needle and thread are passed through these fragments in decreasing order, stitched and decorated with jewelry.
Bows using the kanzashi technique
The birthplace of technology is China and the Japanese archipelago. It was there that these fabric decorations were invented, and initially without beads or other jewelry. A distinctive feature of the technique is that each circle forms a separate petal of the bow. The shapes of the petals can vary - both round and acute-angled. Today, the composition is often additionally decorated with beads and beads.
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