How to weave flowers of poppies, photo and description of weaving a bouquet of poppies

December 1, 2017 handmadebase

With the arrival of spring and warmth, the fields begin to bloombeautiful red poppies. There are many different legends about them. In ancient Greece, the poppy was considered a symbol of silence, sleep and oblivion. It was dedicated to the gods of dreams and visions Hypnos and Morpheus. According to another legend, the poppy is dedicated to the goddess of fertility Hera and the goddess of the harvest Ceres. It was from poppies in combination with ears of grain that wreaths were woven, which were used to decorate statues of this goddess. An old Russian fairy tale tells about the times of the war with the Pechenegs. Once the horde tried to capture the most beautiful girls of one small village. The captives began to ask Mother Earth to save them and the rest of the villages and towns from the cruel reprisals of the nomads. The Earth heeded their prayers, and as soon as a Pecheneg tried to grab some beauty, she turned into a bright red flower, beautiful as the girls themselves. So they were unable to capture a single Pecheneg. But in this place there was a field with beautiful red poppies. And when the Russian soldiers came to the rescue the next morning, they saw that all the enemies were immersed in a magical sleep, which was sent to them by the flower girls. The battle was over and the beauties became themselves again, and poppies have been blooming on that land every year since then. Whatever fairy tales people came up with in ancient times, now the poppy is just a beautiful flower. And if in nature it decorates the earth for only a few days, then, created with your own hands, it will please you for a long time. In this article, we suggest weaving a poppy from beads. In nature, poppy flowers are not only red, so we will also weave yellow flowers.You will need:

Beads 11/0 yellow, green and red colors;
Beads 10/0 in black;
Wire;
Artificial stems;
Green paint (acrylic);
Beads-core (you can buy in a special store or take any suitable);
Mulina is green;
Transparent glue;
Artificial grass and spikelets for decoration.

The weaving of poppy petals will take place inFrench arc axial technique. For each flower, you will need 4 petals. For one petal, you need about 1 m of working wire. Leave about 10 cm of wire for the axis and twist the loop. String 2.5 cm of beads (red or yellow) onto the axis. String 1 more beads onto the working wire and turn it around the axis so that 2 bead strings are pressed tightly against each other. String the same number of beads onto the working wire and make a turn of the wire already at the bottom of the axis. Now we will weave half-arcs. It is necessary to string such a number of beads on the working wire that the string does not reach the first half-arc by 2 beads. Fasten the working wire not on the axis, but on the first half-arc so that the wire passes from the back to the front side. Again, string beads on the working wire so that the string along the arc reaches the bottom of the axis. We fix it with a turn and begin to do similar actions to create a half-arc on the other side of the axis. Weave the first 3 half-arcs on both sides with an indent of 2 beads, from the fourth to the seventh - with an indent of 3 - 4 beads. In each such half-arc there will be 2 strings with beads (one up the petal and one down).Make all the petals. Hide a piece of wire on top of the petal in the upper beads. Bend them like a real poppy.Now we start weaving the black center.poppies. It is made using the needle technique as follows: string about 20 black beads onto a wire, leaving one end of the wire longer. Now thread this end of the wire through the first 19 beads you put on. You have a needle. Now string another 20 - 22 needles next to it. Leave a little wire between them so that you can later fasten them around the core. You can use a bead bought in a store or make the core yourself, for example, from polymer clay. Glue the core to the stem. Place black beaded needles around it and wind them with several turns of green thread. Wind them very tightly. The end of the thread must be glued to the very top of the stem in advance. Now place the petals around the stem with the core and also wind them with thread. In order to increase the strength and prevent the petals from crumbling, they can also be glued with acrylic transparent varnish.To create buds you need to make 1 petal eachfor each bud from red beads and 2 leaves from green beads. Weave the leaves using the French arc axial technique. The same technique with which we made the first pair of arcs. In this case, the working wire must be placed not perpendicular to the axis, but at an angle.Attach a petal folded into a circle to the stem.bend a tube and 2 leaves around it. Tie everything to the stem with green threads. In order for the bud to hold its shape well, you can glue it and wrap it with threads while the glue dries.When all the glued parts are dry, you can put them in a suitable vase, combine them with ears of corn and artificial grass. The poppies are ready to decorate your interior.

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