The best ways to make kanzashi petals: tips for needlewomen

2025 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2025-01-22 22:09

The motto of the modern girl is something like this: "Be yourself to stand out." Today, fashion is such that you can try on any image, you just need to be original in your choice. The best way to look different is to try yourself as a designer.

Jewellery plays a special role in creating a feminine image, since even a minor detail of the toilet can completely change the impression. Kanzashi hair ornaments look spectacular - flowers from satin ribbons, which will be discussed in this article.

Painful and time-consuming is the creation of flowers in the style of kanzashi, the manufacture of petals which requires patience and utmost composure. If this is your first time creating such a decoration, you will be more comfortable making petals from satin ribbons, and not from fabric.

Kanzashi petals vary in shape and are pointed, rounded and multi-layered. The basis for a product of any shape will be a square of tape.

How to make a kanzashi petal? Very simple, just be patient, free time and the following materials:

• colored ribbons fromsatin;
• scissors, needle, thread in the color of the ribbons;
• colorless glue for fabrics, or better - a glue gun;
• tweezers;
• safety pins;
• candle or lighter.

Pointed kanzashi petals are the easiest to make. To do this, we fold the fabric square diagonally, fold the resulting triangle in half, we get a multi-layered triangle.

Fuse the side ends of the triangle with a candle and press with tweezers, if necessary, do the same with the lower edge of the petal.

To make a multi-layered petal, apply another one cut from a ribbon of a different color to a diagonally folded triangle. We fold the resulting triangular template and process the edges, like a pointed one. Multi-layered kanzashi petals visually increase the composition and make it more expressive due to the play of color.

The round petals will take a little longer to make and require some skill. Fold the square diagonally, then wrap the side edges of the resulting triangle to an obtuse corner to make a rhombus.

Turn over the rhombus with the other side, press the side corners to the center of the rhombus, you can fix it with a drop of glue.

Turn the part over again, straighten the petal, process the bottom edge.

We collect the finished petals with a thread and a needle into a flower.

For convenience, you can use the base, to which we will later attach the clasp.

Classic variations of kanzashi petal shapes can be supplemented with interesting details. If the inner side of the blank of a pointed petal is rounded and fixed with glue, an unusual petal with a curl will be obtained. Mother-of-pearl beads are ideal for satin, complementing the delicate composition. The center of the flower can also be decorated with beads or decorative stamens made from thread soaked in starch glue.

Whichever way you choose to make kanzashi petals, your decoration will be unique and highlight your original style.