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Japanese needlework is always striking in its originality and minimal cost. To create amazing style masterpieces kanzashi, the main tool is fabric and an incredible amount of painstaking work and perseverance.
Recently, a flower has become a very popular accessory for all fashionistas. Most often, it is made manually in one of the techniques of needlework. Today I will tell you how to make a kanzashi rose at home with my own hands.

For the process we need:

For the process we need



  • Two types of satin ribbons, 5 cm wide.
  • scissors
  • candle or lighter
  • tweezers
  • sewing pins
  • thread with a needle.

The first step is to cut the tape into equal segments. The width of each piece should be 5 cm and a length of 10 cm.

The width of each piece


In order to work with tapes without loss, you need to melt their edges over the fire. Try to bring the edge to the lower level of the fire, so the material will not melt too much and will not become sooty. By the way, you need to bring the fabric to the fire with the wrong side down, so as not to leave streaks or traces of soot on the front side.

fabric to the fire


To make my rose, I needed 18 pieces of fuchsia ribbon for petals and 4 green for leaves.
We start making the petals. Place the tape vertically with the wrong side up. Now, bend the upper right corner to the middle of the lower part.

bend to the middle


Do the same with the left side.

with the left side


Next, the appeared right corner is attracted to the middle.

attract to the middle


We repeat the procedure with the left corner and fix the resulting "house" with a pin.

we fix


To create a flower you need 22 petals: 18 pink and 4 green.

the petals


Now, we collect everything in one tape. To do this, you need a thread in tone to the outer petals (I have green) and a long needle (preferably beaded). Stitch the right half of the petal,

Sew the right half


and on the left we impose the right part of the second petal and sew them together.

impose the right side of the petal


In this way we collect all the prepared petals on a string.

collect cooked petals


Now start twisting the bud,

twist the bud


gradually stitching them with thread at the base.

stitching them together


When almost the whole flower is twisted,

flower twisted


you need to flash the entire base with a stitch seam to fix the result.

to consolidate the result


We begin to gradually give our bud the correct shape; for this, we turn the petals down one by one.

bend the petals


The result is such a flower.

such a flower turned out



If we want to use it as a brooch, we need to attach a fastener to it. The ideal solution would be to simply use the base from an old unnecessary icon,

base of old badge


but you can construct something similar yourself. To make it, you will need 2 pieces of cardboard or plastic, scissors, glue and a regular pin. In cardboard we make small cuts and carefully thread a pin into them so that the fixed part remains below.

thread carefully


Then glue the second layer of cardboard for thickness.

glue the second layer


Next, we cut off all the excess so that the fastener is not visible due to the flower.

cut off all unnecessary


To attach it, pour well the base of the bud with glue. Special rubber glue is best suited, but you can get by with the usual “super” or “401”.

special rubber glue


Now we press the lock blank to the glued base for a while and wait until the glue sticks.

glued base


Well, here is the flower and ready. You can use it as a brooch,

here is the flower and ready


and you can fix it on the rim.

fasten to the rim

kanzashi flower
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Comments (1)
  1. Irina
    #1 Irina Guests November 3, 2014 18:34
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    perfectly

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