How to make Kantashi bows with your own hands, detailed master classes with step-by-step photos

December 25, 2017 handmadebase

Bows are a very popular decoration.They decorate clothes and shoes, interior items, bouquets and, of course, hairstyles. Our grandmothers wove ribbons into their braids and tied cute and simple bows. But Chinese and Japanese women of yesteryear came up with much more sophisticated and original hair decorations. The technique of creating decorative elements from ribbons, which came from ancient China and Japan, is called “kanzashi”, which translated means “folding”. Small squares of ribbons, folded in a special way, allow you to create incredible compositions, and the master classes offered in this article will allow you to make a beautiful bow yourself using the kanzashi technique. You can make such a wonderful gift for your daughter, or use a beautiful hairpin or elastic band yourself. To begin with, we suggest you make a charming white flower, which can be attached to an elastic band or hairpin and decorate a schoolgirl’s hairstyle.Materials for work:

White satin ribbon 5 cm wide;
Candle (you can use a soldering iron);
Scissors;
Linea;
Tweezers;
Glue instant gel or glue gun;
Strong yarn or monofilament;
Needle;
Beautiful bead for the core.

First you need to cut the ribbon into 12x5 cm pieces. The more magnificent the flower you want, the more pieces you need. The proposed flower contained 15 pieces.Unfold the ribbon with the front side facing away from you and bend the upper right corner inward. For convenience, fixation can be done with needles or pins.Unfold the workpiece and bend the lower left corner, as shown in the photo.Hide the very end of the folded corner inside.The other side is bent in the same way.Fold the folded corners inward.Sew along the bottom edge with thread.Pull the thread at the base of the petal.Turn over and unfold (open) the workpiece. This is what happened.Do the same for all other pieces of tape.Now you need to string it on a thread and tighten it into a circle7 petals for the first, lowest circle, for the second (middle) – 5 and for the top one – 3 petals. You can have more or less as you wish. This is what happened. Turn the largest circle face down and glue the base to the middle.Turn it over onto your face and glue the middle and smallest circles in turn. All that remains is to decorate the core with a bead and attach a hairpin or elastic band and the beautiful kanzashi bow is ready.The next bow is not even a bow at all, buta whole ribbon of kanzashi flower bows. Bright sunny dahlia bows will delight even the cloudiest day. The very first bow can be attached with a hairpin, and subsequent ones are attached to a ribbon, which can be woven into the hairstyle in different ways. Of course, you can create your own unique composition, for example, attach all the bows to elastic bands or hairpins, in general, give vent to your creativity.Materials for work:

Tape made of organza 2 cm (two-color, with a smooth gradient) and 1 cm wide by 75 cm;
Satin ribbon 1 cm wide by 6 cm;
Scissors;
Tweezers;
Candle;
A piece of felt;
Needle with thread;
Rubber band 10 cm;
Clip-clamp;
Rasparivatel;
Pencil;
Half-beads;
Beads, in harmony with the color of the half-beads;
Glue gun.

One flower requires 28 petals.For decoration you need 5 flowers. This means you need 140 blank petals. Cut 140 pieces 5 cm long from a ribbon 2 cm wide. Fold the upper right corner so that it extends slightly beyond the center.Now bend the upper left corner to the right and overlap it a little, about half a centimeter.Now fold the right and left corners again (overlapping on the left). This is what happened.You can try folding the petal a littleotherwise, look for an option that you like better. The main thing is to make all the petals the same way. Now it’s convenient to grab the petal and cut it from the bottom, aligning the edge. Pinch the flat bottom of the petal with tweezers.Process the bottom edge over the fire. You can use a lighter or a candle. It’s not scary if some petal turns out to be a little larger or a little smaller. This will not affect the result.That's how beautiful the petals turned out.Now you need to make the base for the flowers.To do this you will need a piece of felt. Now you need to cut out 5 circles 2.5 cm in diameter and five – 3 cm in diameter. Cut out large circles from yellow felt, small ones from any other color.Now let's start assembling the flowers. First round. Sew 6 petals to the smaller circle of felt.Sew the second circle in a checkerboard pattern. It also consists of 6 petals.The third circle will consist of 8 petals, they overlap by about half in relation to the previous one.Fourth circle. Similarly for the third of the 8 petals and sew them overlapping by 2/3.This is what happens.Now you need to make the cores for the bows. Glue half beads onto a piece of felt and sew beads along the edge.The outside of the hairpin needs to be glued toround yellow piece of felt. To secure the inner side, glue a piece of tape to the pin and felt circle. In order to make an elastic band, you need to cut a small hole in a circle of yellow felt, thread both ends of the rubber band through, sew them together and glue them to the circle of felt.Now glue an organza ribbon 1 cm wide onto the blank with a hair clip. Pre-singe the edges.Glue the flower. Now you need to take the remaining three yellow blanks and apply markings, as in the figure. The length of the cut is 8 mm.This is what happens.Apply glue along the edges.Glue the next flower, the place with the cuts will serve as a loop, so it should be free of glue.Now string the flowers onto the ribbon. They should fit tightly and not move when the ribbon is lifted up.This is what happened.Such a wonderful decoration can be worn even under hats. The flowers keep their shape perfectly.

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