How to Make a Kansasi Flower Brooch

Kanzashi - the technique of creating jewelry from smallpieces of fabric and ribbons, folded in a special way. Colors created from shreds in this way, geisha decorated their kimonos and hairstyles. Hair accessories and brooches are often worn with national costumes, but they can add elegance to any image and transform even the most common outfit.

Material for Kansas technique

Flowers from shreds are used to createpins, rings, rings, bracelets. Such accessories can be made independently using conventional satin ribbons. Some needlewomen create products made of leather and vinyl. Let's try to make an unusual brooch together. It is best to use not too dense material for work, it will be easier to fold. Suitable silk and starched cotton.

What you need to create an ornament

We prepare the necessary materials. It:

• A small piece of cloth, about 5 cm wide and 25 cm long;
• thick threads;
• quality sewing needles;
• scissors;
• beads and beads;
• a small piece of felt;
• glue gun;
• fastening for brooch;
• pins.

How to make a tissue from a Kansasi brooch: a master class

We cut the cloth flap so that we get five squares of the same size. It will be optimal to cut pieces of 5x5 cm.

Take one of the squares and fold it in half,so that we get a triangle. Fold should be on the right. Lightly press the material with your finger, smoothing the line. We fold one of the halves again, creating a smaller triangle.

We bend the second corner back: on each side are now triangles of tissue. We got the first petal. Cut a few millimeters from the open edge and pin it with a pin. To fasten the shred, you can use invisible, patchwork or patch the workpiece with a few stitches. This will make the middle of the flower more neat and will not allow the triangles to unfold.

Repeat all the steps until we get 5 petals.

Collect the flower, sewing the leaves together. First we make them in one line, then we sew the last pieces. We try to pierce the material with a needle as close as possible to the cut off corner. The process itself is a bit like stringing beads on a string.

Having finished sewing petals, turn overPreparing and vesting the edges of the flower to keep it in shape. Do not worry if the stitches are not too smooth, then they will be closed by a felt stock.

Now you need to spread the petals. To do this, turn the crease in the middle of each leaf, pushing the fabric inside. The middle part should "fail", and the edges should remain vertical. Continue to form the petals until all 5 are straightened. We got a blank for a kanzashi brooch in the form of a plum blossom. It remains to decorate it with beads and make a fastener from behind.

Decorating the center of the flower is optional, butThe accessory will look more attractive if you highlight its details. You can sew a bead in the middle or add a rhinestones, attaching them with a glue gun.

Turn the brooch over and apply glue to the corners to strengthen them. Then cut out the pentagon from the felt and attach the holder to it.

Now the product is ready. It is possible to wear the resulting Kansashi brooch with pride, as it is created by our own hands.

Brooch from satin ribbons: tools for creating

The accessory does not need to be made so simple. If you add sharp petals, make curls, combine several types of fabrics and textures, you will get an interesting decoration that you can wear not only in everyday life, but also on festive occasions. Before you make a kanzashi brooch from ribbons, you need to prepare the material for work.

We will need:

• satin ribbon 4 cm wide;
• brocade tape width 4 cm;
• stamens for flowers;
• glue gun;
• base for brooch;
• scissors;
• tweezers;
• lighter.

The process of making brooch from tapes

Cut the ribbon into patches 4x4 cm. We will make the petals double. To do this, one square of satin and brocade tape is folded diagonally and fix the tip with a lighter. We put pieces of tape on each other, connect the lighter on one side and fold them in half. We bend one tip, and the other we cut it a little with scissors. Cut off the corner bend outward and collect the tips. Once again cut off the edge and sing with a lighter so that the petal does not fall apart. Now you need to pull out the tip of the tape from the center. This is easier to do with tweezers.

Cut the edges, drip some glue on the tipshred and tweezers bend it inside the workpiece. Should get a petal with a curl. Press it down and cut off the back part diagonally, burn the edge with a lighter. We make 6-7 such details. In addition, as many simple triangular petals are made. Then we paste a piece of tape on the base so that the leaves stick better. Let's start assembling Kansai brooch. Apply the glue to the base and form the flower: first attach a layer with curled petals, along the edges add triangular leaves. Serum is decorated with stamens, collecting them in two pieces, we paste a bead in the center. A Kansasi brooch for a dress or any other costume is ready!