Kanzashi hair bands

Kanzashi hair bands have gained immense popularity outside of Japan, where they are part of traditional culture. For those who want to try themselves in this art form, there are simple workshops with detailed and understandable instructions. With your own hands, you can easily make unusual rubber bands from a tape on a shark and school, for little girls - it all depends on the imagination and desire of the needlewoman.

Kanzashi gum for hair is a popular jewelry that allows you to give your hair an originality, highlight it, add unusual accents. The technique of their manufacture has a long history. Initially, kanzashi - this name is pronounced that way, are an element of a traditional costume. Japanese girls, girls and women decorated their hair styles with ribbon flowers, wearing casual or elegant kimonos in the 18th century. Moreover, the kanzashi was originally not called the decor itself, but what it is attached to - studs, ridges, clamps.

However, there is a pronunciation variant ka sashi, meaning literally "stuck flowers." It was used in relation to the tradition of weaving living plants into the hair before turning to the gods. The most beautiful Kanzashis really inspire thoughts that they are not a man-made creation, but a gift of nature itself.

The main feature of Kanzashi hair bands is that they use the simplest materials and tools. Usually this is a wide satin or rep ribbon with a width of 50 mm, 25 mm, 10 mm and auxiliary decorative elements. The number of layers and the splendor of the flower is also always individually regulated. You can assemble the product with a glue gun or a sewing needle, and the manufacturing process itself takes a minimum of time and does not require complex manipulations.

Original kanzashi bows are easy to make with your own hands. To work, the master will need a basic set of tools available in every hardware store, as well as consumables. Among the mandatory list there are the following items:

• sharp scissors;
• tweezers with long thin lips;
• stick-tucked glue gun;
• thin pins;
• matches or a lighter;
• ribbons 1-10 cm wide, chiffon, rep, satin;
• felt;
• ready-made elastic bands for hair;
• accessories (fasteners, cords, lugs, braid);
• decoration elements from rhinestones and sequins to beads.

Help out rep options that do not slide so much in your hands. Fire sources are necessary to prevent the edges of the tape from shedding. They are carefully singed - that is why children can make such jewelry only under the control of adults. The thermogun is used to connect parts during assembly, on the smallest parts the heated glue is applied with a toothpick.

Masters also have means to protect the finished product from pollution. You can prepare a spray of hairspray in advance. When the assembly is completed, the kanzash flowers on the rubber bands are simply sprayed with a spray from a distance of 25-30 cm. After the protective layer has dried, the product will be better to keep its shape, it will not get dirty for a long time.

There are many rubber bands in the kanzashi technique. Teenagers wear them with strands of different colors, put on a bun. With your own hands, you can easily make simple school versions and models for little girls in the form of strawberries, roses. On September 1, white waterfalls with ribbons look interesting, on New Year's holidays - options with sparkles and lurex, with snow-suspensions. For a school in an everyday format, it is better to create rubber bands in the style of kansashi without unnecessary distracting details.

For beginners, there are simple workshops that step by step explain the essence of the work. Experienced needlewomen prefer fantasy art - children's gum can be turned into real masterpieces, new items regularly appear in theme stores and at craftsmen's fairs.

Novice masters should learn the basic elements of creating jewelry using the kanzashi technique. So, having spent no more than 1 hour, you can create a beautiful pair of rubber bands for a school or kindergarten with your own hands. It is worth considering the basic models in more detail.

To create beautiful rubber bands with bows using the kanzashi technique, you need to prepare materials and tools. Necessarily need tailor pins with voices, a ruler, scissors, a heat gun, a lighter and a needle with a thread. The following amount of materials is required for 1 product:

• rep ribbon with lurex edging - 2 × 20 cm with a width of 25 mm;
• similar stripes with a gold or silver ornament;
• narrow ribbon 6-9 mm - a segment of 10 cm;
• elastic for hair in the color of materials;
• middle - mini buckle made of plastic, metal.

Before proceeding with the assembly of the product, each tape with edging and monograms is folded with the wrong sides. At the edges they singe with fire, solder among themselves. Important: to make the work more accurate, a tissue burner or thermal knife will help. Next, the assembly begins.

1. 7.5 cm deviate from the edges of each pair of welded tapes. He pins a pin at the desired point.
2. The ribbon is folded in the form of Latin V.If everything is done correctly, half of the wrong side will be opposite the front, the pins will touch.
3. The junction is fixed. Old pins can be removed. Position the workpiece so that its front with monograms is facing straight up.
4. The section of the tape from the inside (without a picture) is bent and held behind the vertical. You get a right angle with a petal chopped with a pin. The blank will look like Latin L.
5. The top of this structure is lowered. It will turn upside down "tick". Its right side must be bent from the inside and secured with the end on top, where there is already a pin. The left one is attached in the same way, but the front side remains on top.
6. As soon as both blanks are made on a pin, they are collected on a string, fixed. After this, the temporary clips are removed.
7. The resulting sides of the bow are stitched together. Tighten tightly and securely.
8. From the inside of the bow, glue the hair elastic with a thermal gun.
9. In the central part, fasten the narrow ribbon with hot-melt adhesive. Wrap it around the bow several times, fixing each layer with glue. In the penultimate round, the middle is threaded. It is fixed with 1 more layer of tape.

To make a simple floral decoration you will need a satin ribbon 25 mm wide. Green - 8 pieces in segments of 80 mm, color for petals - 6 by 70 mm and 4 by 60 mm, center, felt bases. The folding pattern of each petal is very simple.

1. A straight line is laid face down.
2. It bends from left to right to make Latin L.
3. Opposite ends are connected, the workpiece is folded to the left side. The edges are soldered over the fire.
4. Get a kind of "house" with a triangular top and a rectangular base. It must be folded twice in length so that the outside is the front side. The lower edges are tucked up, fixed.
5. You can spread the petal. Make the rest in the same way.
6. During assembly, a green substrate is first formed. It is connected by hot glue. Then colored 6 and 4 petals are also formed.
7. All details are connected, in the center of the "flower" the middle is glued. On the wrong side, the base is fixed. Gum is glued to it.

Original jewelry-elastic bands for hair using the kanzashi technique are more laborious to manufacture. But this does not stop the real masters. It is worth considering the most interesting master class in more detail.

This version of the product is suitable not only for teenagers. It is appropriate both at school, and at the office or university. The basic model is made of black and white ribbons, for the summer you can take the white-pink or blue-blue version. It is worth to stock up on materials in advance. For the manufacture of gum on a bundle you will need the following.

1. 48 squares of satin ribbon in each color. Size 5 × 5 cm.
2. 4 pieces of white 50 mm satin ribbon 100 mm long, 2 50 × 80 mm in size.
3. Felt circles with a diameter of 30 mm - 7 pcs., Choose the color of the product.
4. 2 pieces of black satin ribbon 50 × 90 mm in size.
5. Decorative rhinestones - 10 pcs., Center - 7 pcs. Suitable black or completely transparent.
6. White lace with floral ornament 20 mm wide and 90 mm long - 2 pieces.
7. Thin tape 1 cm wide. Need white, about 10 cm.
8. The elastic is lace, airy - about 25 cm long.

Before starting work, all tapes need to be scorched to avoid crumbling. For the base you will need lace elastic, squares from satin ribbon, lace and wide stripes for central decoration, middle and cabochons. The order of work will be as follows.

1. Harvested satin squares of each color bend diagonally. Fold in pairs, black at the top, cleaved with a pin. Stacked with the top down, the lateral angles are pulled to it. It will turn out a rhombus with a black ribbon inside, it is cleaved with a pin.
2. The workpiece is cut off the bottom - about 1 cm or a little less. A bend line is drawn from corner to corner. This part is wrapped on the black side. Then, without lifting your fingers, you need to pull off sharp corners with a slice, close and singe them, fixing. The inner part will be revealed, you get a white cone with a black center - these need to be done 8.
3. Finished parts are connected to the flower with a thermal gun. Such “marshmallows” are needed to decorate the side of the elastic band 6. The center is glued to each center, a circle of felt is fixed on the back side.
4. 4 wide white stripes 10 cm long are folded by volumetric loops. For splendor, a crease is fixed in the center. The blanks are glued in the form of the letter X. Combine the black satin ribbon 9 cm with lace, form loops with a central fold. Connect with glue gun.
5. Form a bow from a white and black blank. In the center, wind with a white narrow ribbon, hiding the seams. Fix the middle.
6. The remaining white sections of the atlas of 8 cm are fixed with a central fold in the form of “tails”, cut the bottom edge diagonally, singe and decorate with rhinestones. Fasten to the bow from the inside. Glue the felt backing.
7. Sew an elastic band of the right diameter from lace elastic tape. Decorate it with a bow in the center and “marshmallows” on the sides, symmetrically.

You can attach a rubber band to the base of felt without much difficulty. As a fixation element, a narrow tape 10 mm wide will be used, the length of the segment should be 4-5 cm. A piece of felt is cut out round, about the size of a five-ruble coin or slightly larger. A hole is made in its center with an awl or scissors. The edges of the tape are pre-scorched by fire.

The fastening process itself is as follows.

1. The ribbon is thrown over the elastic with the satin side facing out.
2. The ends come together. Threaded into the hole of a felt mug.
3. The edges of the tape are fixed on the back of the felt with hot melt adhesive.
4. The base itself is connected to the flower blank. It is enough to use a glue gun, applying a bonding layer around the circumference. Press down.

If desired, the mount can be made universal - under the rim or hairpin, hairpin, clip. For this, the loop of tape is not threaded into the gum, but simply left outside.

• Stylish lilac-violet pair of elastic bands with a complex structure of petals. The product looks elegant, but not too elaborate.

• Simple flowers are “butterflies” using the kanzashi technique. Bright decorative elements can be worn on an elastic band, bezel or hairpin.

• Lush peonies using the kanzashi technique. Burgundy-violet flowers look elegant and bright. Delicate salmon shades perfectly complement the outfit for the holiday exit.

See how to make rubber bands using the kanzashi technique.