Kanzashi style brooches

Kanzashi (Kanzashi) - traditional Japanese women's jewelry for hair, they are worn by Japanese women when they put on a kimono. In the post-Soviet space, this needlework was reduced to the manufacture of elegant accessories from satin ribbons, although in the original kanzashi is made of wood and even precious metals, which are decorated with silk. Satin ribbons are used as an affordable alternative. Not only hair accessories are made in this technique. You can, taking advantage of the opportunities of kanzashi, complete a brooch that will draw attention to the outfit.

A beautiful kanzashi brooch can decorate a blouse, jacket, long coat or short (and even light coat without sleeves). She will decorate a plain dress, and in some cases will become an elegant hairpin for a tippet. In a word in the wardrobe of a woman there are several dresses that will become more attractive with the help of such an exclusive brooch.

It is important that they play along with the type of mistress: Harmoniously looked in relation to her color type, features of appearance.

For example, you can make it very tender, cream brooch, which will be organic for women who prefer pastel colors in clothes, sandy shades, lightness, lack of radical colors. Brooch made of red ribbons with black details It can open with a full bow (full black outfit) or be a good outlet for a dark coat.

Or the brooch will be intended for the representative of the creative professionwhich image experiments are not alien to. It is possible that the brooch may become holiday attribute (version with tricolor or symbolic red carnation, poppy seeds - in the British version). Or, for example, in some school there may be a tradition when on September 1 all teachers come with the same holiday brooches using the kanzashi technique.

For work, you need to correctly select, first of all, materials. In most cases, the main element is satin ribbon, but you can work not only with her.

What will the needlewoman need:

• a variety of satin ribbons;
• organza;
• rep cloth;
• lace;
• dense high-quality silk (for more expensive and pretentious crafts);
• Lurex.

Basically, there are no restrictions on the choice of material. Any tight fit the cloth. But usually they start with satin ribbons: the material is relatively cheap, affordable, easy to manipulate. And here is a list of tools needed to work:

• scissors;
• ruler;
• glue gun + glue;
• lighter;
• non-fragile tweezers (preferably thin);
• wood burner or soldering iron;
• work surface for a soldering iron;
• thread and needle;
• various small ornaments - sequins, rhinestones, beads, beads, etc.

As for the adhesive composition, then the craftswoman will need glue-gel, which does not spread and is not absorbed into the delicate fabric.

Master class of airy, light brooch from satin ribbons do it yourself can become the first successful start in this type of needlework. What you need to take:

• scissors, a lighter and a glue gun;
• peach tone satin ribbon - 4-4.5 cm wide, 180 cm long;
• pale green ribbon 2.5 cm / 30 cm;
• mesh fabric - 11 cm / 27 cm;
• tulle - 11 cm / 27 cm;
• various size round beads;
• 3 elongated beads;
• fishing line, needle, tweezers;
• clasp for a brooch.

How to make an air brooch.

1. Squares of 4 by 4 cm (28 pieces) are cut from the widest peach ribbon. The first square must be bent into a triangle. Bend the edges of the triangle to its top, cut off the edge of the element for parallel edges.
2. The lighter needs to burn the edges and press them so that they stick together. When the petals are all done, it's time to glue. The first petal is taken, its edge bends inward. The element is folded, the edge must be fixed with hot glue.
3. Next, the glue is applied to the bottom of the new petal and glued around the first. Petals glue against each other. The rest are staggered. It will turn out a lush bud for a brooch that will adorn the delicate shades of the dress.
4. Next, you need to make small buds in the amount of 2 pieces. Cut 18 peach squares and wrap them in the same way as a large bud.
5. Now 2 green segments of 6 cm are cut off, the edges are scorched by a lighter. The edges of the buds are wrapped with these fragments, fixing to glue.
6. Small leaves are made like this: 7 lettuce squares 2.5 cm by 2.5 cm are folded by triangles, then again. The edge of a small triangle needs to be connected, cut the bottom of the sheet at an angle of 45 degrees. Then the sharp edges are trimmed, scorched and glued after working with a lighter.
7. The leaves are glued in a circle. After that, it's time to make a transparent foundation. Both tulle and "mesh" need to be cut off as in the list of materials. Fatin should be inside the "net". Masked edges of the segments are sewn together on the inside.
8. Further, the beads are strung on a fishing line either as in the picture, or in a free style. The moment of decoration can be copyrighted.
9. When all the details of the brooch are, they are connected.Glue is applied to the inside of the center of the rose, the tips are glued with beads, as is the stitched edge of a tulle fan.

Such a brooch can be additionally decorate with lace. If you change the peach color to red, a bright thing will come out for a black outfit. The accessory can be worn on the prom on a blouse. Even the teacher on September 1, such a decor on clothes will be organic, and if exactly the same brooches adorn graduates' outfits - perfect.

We will conduct a master class for beginners on manufacturing stylish office brooches (It’s also suitable for studies) - perhaps you can start off from such an idea and then come up with something new of your own. To work, you need to take:

• satin or rep ribbon 1 cm wide;
• ruler, thread and needle;
• lighter and glue;
• clasp;
• a small piece of felt;
• half bead, rhinestones, any decorative attribute for the core.

MK for making brooch-tie.

1. From the tape you need to cut 3 segments of 18 cm, 1 segment - 16.5 cm, 1 segment - 14.5 cm. On all elements, find the middle, iron the bend and apply glue to this place. Further, both edges are bent to the middle and pressed well. Do the same with other segments.
2. You can already collect a bow. Long segments are connected to each other, a lying X will come out on its side. Now a third long segment is glued. Then the middle is glued to the large, and the smallest to the middle.
3. For the ends of the tie, a piece of tape of 18 cm is taken. It is half bent with a slight extension of the ends. They add up to each other, they are cut off obliquely.
4. The tips are treated with a cigarette lighter against shedding. The element is glued to the assembled bow, fixed.
5. The brooch clasp is glued to the mini-piece of felt in tone tape. This blank is sewn to the inside of the bow.
6. The selected decorative part is glued in the middle on the front side of the bow. Everything is ready!

What is beautiful this simple MK, so its universality. Such an ornament can be suitable for a first-grader outfit, for a blouse under a light autumn coat. And if you change the colors of the tape, it will tricolor brooch. It all takes quite a bit of time, but the result is a self-sufficient, very elegant decoration.

And now there are some important tips that will help novice needlewomen to master the first meters of the creative distance, not disappointed in small failures. Without them, few people move: work requires skill, so you just need to be patient and be attentive to the little things. 7 helpful tips for new to Kansashi.

1. What is it needed for tweezers - the master will keep them with the petals of future flowers. Some women are sure that they will do without it, because the details can be held with your fingers. But you can make friends with tweezers faster than it seems: for fine work, it will do better than fingers.
2. It can come in handy and Polish for hair: It will help keep the petals in shape. The option of using hairspray with sparkles is not excluded.
3. Do not forget about the basis: a kanzashi flower must hold on to something. It can be elastic bands, hair clips, a bezel or, as in the case of a brooch, a base with a pin.
4. Clay is not worth taking the first one, but one that delicately works on the fabric. For example - “Crystal Moment”. But even without a glue gun in this type of needlework can not do.
5. If there is no soldering iron and wood burner, you can work with hair iron or curling iron. You can even heat the scissors over the fire, but this is not very convenient and safety precautions can be affected.
6. Without a ruler or centimeter tape can not do. And it is better if there is a cutting mat or a tailor's mat on the table.
7. Success in detail and order. Immediately need to sort tools / materials by convenient storage systems. This allows not only to keep clean, but also to save.

And a dozen chic kanzashi brooches to inspire and repeat.

• Such an accessory is requested for a summer wedding. Perhaps it would be nice for them to designate bridesmaids.

• Without a touch of humor, even fashion is nowhere. In the fall, on the side of the coat, such a fox will make the mood not only of its owner, but also of everyone he meets.

• No need for multicolor to stand out. Everything here is concise, and therefore perfect.

• A brooch-order with a tie is a great addition for an office bow or image for a student who wants to look convincing in the exam.

• Elegant and catchy. I remember Carey Bradshaw's wedding bow.

• Another cute and concise accessory to the business style of clothing.

• Flower brooch: textured and self-sufficient.

• Not quite ordinary, original brooches - can be used for paired bows.

• An example of a very interesting brooch-tie is stylish and intelligent.

• Men also wear brooches, such, for example. And this is not fopping, but relevance, persuasiveness, exclusivity.

See how to make a kanzashi brooch in the next video.