How to make artificial flowers with your own hands. Artificial flower manufacturing technology

Artificial flowers the new generation simply amazes with its graceful luxurious beauty and its perfect external resemblance to natural analogues. However, no one will argue with the generally accepted and obvious fact that the most skillful, talented and unsurpassed artist on the planet is Mother Nature. Born of her caring and with loving hands charming and breathtaking landscapes have always attracted, attract and will attract our enthusiastic and close attention. But man is also a creation of the forces of nature and an integral part of it. This means that he is a worthy child of his mother. And the most talented and gifted among us apply all their skill, skill and enthusiasm to repeat the unique and capture what they see for a long time.

Modern artificial flowers and artificial trees, which can even be purchased online, are an impressive and stunning result of human efforts. Flowers are the pinnacle of natural art. Miniature and large, catchy and inconspicuous, with a pronounced rich aroma and a subtle subtle fragrance, they always amaze with their grace, elegance and perfection. And the new generation of artificial flowers, created by man, are an ideal and perfect imitation of this miracle of nature.

How artificial flowers are made

How did a person manage to achieve such mastery and why the new generation of artificial plants have such a natural look? appearance and so similar to their natural counterparts? Modern technology for making bouquets of artificial flowers and artificial trees of the new generation has made a huge step forward in this human desire to achieve maximum similarity between artificial plants and living ones.

The basis of this complex process of transforming raw materials into artificial flowers is a detailed analysis of a real plant into its individual constituent elements. Then, according to the shape of these obtained elements, patterns are made for future artificial flowers and artificial trees: stems, branches, leaves, cuttings, petals, stamens, buds, buds, pistils, spines and other parts of the plant. These patterns will determine the shape and size of future artificial flowers and artificial trees, and accordingly completely repeat and copy the shape and size of a living plant. And the final result will depend on the selected material that is used to create all these small parts of the plant: how similar the artificial flowers will be to natural ones. In the production of artificial plants today, a huge number of different materials are used.

Most often, the petals and leaves of artificial flowers and artificial trees are made from fabric. The range of fabric types used is simply limitless. At the very beginning of the process of establishing the production of artificial plants, it was, as a rule, silk, parchment, and cotton. A little later, when man invented and widely introduced production artificial fiber, to the already familiar artificial plants with silk, parchment and cotton leaves and petals, artificial flowers and artificial trees, the leaves and petals of which were made of latex, polyester and airy organza. This has significantly expanded the capabilities of manufacturers of artificial plants.

Before the material takes the form of artificial tree leaves or artificial flower petals, it is thoroughly impregnated by various means with specially developed compositions. This is done so that in the process of giving the material the required shape, it is sufficiently pliable and “obedient” so that its cuts do not fall apart into the fibers, and the elements of future artificial plants have a certain shape and do not lose it. After the fabric is processed, petals and leaves of artificial flowers and artificial trees are cut out using previously prepared patterns. The crown of artificial plants is painted in paints, colors and shades corresponding to natural ones.

To ensure an authentic appearance, the veins similar to real flowers are reproduced on the petals of artificial flowers and the leaves of artificial trees, and the edges of the leaves and petals are wrapped to give the artificial plants a natural and natural appearance. After this painstaking effort, which results in artificial flowers and artificial trees having petals and leaves virtually indistinguishable from the original, the petals are assembled into a single unit with pre-prepared stamens, which are then attached around the finished core.

Modern artificial flowers

Today in the production of artificial plants for manufacturing and processing individual elements, from which artificial flowers and artificial trees are then collected, a variety of tools are used:

• Rings, which are circles made of steel wire of different diameters. They are needed for curling artificial flower petals and artificial tree leaves.
• Bulks are special steel balls located on metal rods with wooden handles;
• Tweezers needed for assembly small parts composing artificial flowers, for painting them, for corrugating petals;
• A single-core knife is a dull, curved blade made of steel wire with wooden handle. It is designed for processing leaves of artificial trees and artificial flowers.
• A twin-core knife, which has a similar design to a single-core knife, only with two blades. It is used in the production of artificial plants for the same purposes as single-core.
• Wire cutters needed to cut wire.
• Scissors that are needed for cutting out artificial flower petals and leaves of artificial trees, as well as others necessary details artificial plants made of fabric.
• A die cutter is a special tool needed to make artificial flower corollas with very small petals. Basically, this procedure requires artificial flowers of forget-me-not, lilac or lily of the valley.
• The iron is a metal parallelepiped measuring 10 cm by 10 cm by 3 cm. It has five holes of different diameters: 1.2 mm; 1.5mm; 2mm; 3mm and 3.5 millimeters. Strips of starched dry fabric 0.5 cm wide are pulled through these holes.
• An awl is a round steel needle, three to five centimeters long. It is necessary in order to make holes in the petals of artificial plants that have the shape of a corolla.
• Pillows measuring fifteen by twenty centimeters, made of hard or semi-soft rubber. The thickness of such pillows ranges from one and a half to four centimeters. Flowers, artificial rose petals and their leaves are treated with boules on just such pillows.

Artificial plants of the new generation have such a perfect appearance, identical to natural plants, also due to the fact that artificial trees and artificial flowers are made using specially processed rhizomes and trunks of living plants or dry wood as trunks and branches. Also widely used in the production of artificial flowers and artificial trees of the new generation are papier-mâché, plastic, and wire. Artificial plants are often stamped from tin, made from wax and plastic, carved from soap, or sculpted from porcelain or polymer clay.

But it would be a mistake to assume that it is enough just to conscientiously mechanically cut, paint and assemble all the component parts in order to obtain ideal artificial flowers that will be difficult to distinguish from real ones. In order for any artificial plants: both trees and flowers, to have a natural appearance, you need to have high powers of observation and a good artistic flair, a sense of proportion. After all, every branch that makes up artificial trees and every petal of artificial flowers must be unique and not repeat the rest. Otherwise, artificial plants will not have a natural look. Because nature does not repeat itself, and in nature it is impossible to find two completely identical leaves or flowers.

Therefore, only a real artist can create artificial flowers that look like real ones. Moreover, in order for artificial flowers and artificial trees to one hundred percent reproduce all the nuances of living plants, you need to be a good botanist. In the structure of plants, in their differences, details, you need to be able to navigate well enough to be able to correctly convey any little detail as nature created it - leaves, petals, their veins - everything without which artificial flowers will not be flowers...

Artificial flower manufacturing technology

Flowers made using this technology are practically indistinguishable from real ones.

Introduction

Hundreds of thousands of plant species live on the globe. And flowers occupy a place of honor among them.

It’s hard to imagine how poorer our lives would be, how sad the planet Earth would be if flowers disappeared on it. They are a symbol of love and fidelity, a symbol of respect and eternal memory. Flowers are the most modest and beautiful decoration our home. Even small bouquet adds color to the room festive look, creates an uplifting mood. Unfortunately, fresh flowers do not last long. But people can create miracles. They learned to create artificial flowers, imitating nature itself. This is great art, with its own strict rules and laws that allow us to achieve maximum similarity, to reveal the natural beauty of each flower, emphasizing its characteristic details and features.

Having a keen eye for observation, taste, and having thoroughly mastered the technique of coloring and processing petals, stamens, and leaves, you can make any flower. And having mastered the art of flower making, you need to learn how to make bouquets correctly, based on proportions and harmony.

Tools

To make artificial flowers you need some special tools(Fig. 1), without which it is impossible to begin work.

Rice. 1. Tools for making flowers: a - bulbs; b - rings; c - knives; g - iron; d - die cutting.

These include:

gurgles- steel balls mounted on metal rods with wooden handles. The number of rolls used is usually at least six (of different sizes). For example: 5, 15, 20, 30 mm in diameter. The petals are processed with boules, giving them a natural shape characteristic of a given flower;

rings made of steel wire of various diameters, which are used for curling petals;

single core knife- a blunt curved blade made of steel wire, framed with a wooden handle. Serve for processing leaves (in the absence of a leaf stamp) and some flowers;

twin-core knife- similar to a single-core one, but with two blades, which are obtained by cutting a longitudinal groove in a blunt steel blade. Necessary for processing reed petals and sepals;

iron- metal parallelepiped 10x10x3 (4) cm with holes with a diameter of 1.2; 1.5; 2; 3; 3.5 mm. A strip of starched dry fabric 0.5 cm wide is pulled through the desired hole in the iron. Thin tubes are obtained, which are used in the manufacture of phlox, primroses, etc.;

medical tweezers- for corrugating petals, assembling small flowers and their colors. The arms of the tweezers should be the same length, elastic, and come together tightly when squeezed;

scissors— for cutting out petals, leaves, etc. from fabric;

wire cutters- for cutting wire;

awl with a round steel needle 3-5 cm long for piercing holes in corolla-shaped petals;

die cutting- for obtaining corollas of flowers with very small petals, for example, forget-me-nots, lilacs, lilies of the valley. Each die cut should correspond to the shape of the petal of a given flower;

pillows made of hard and semi-soft rubber with a thickness of 1.5 to 4 cm. The dimensions of the pillow are approximately 15x20 cm (the pillows are covered with white fabric). On a cushion of soft rubber, the petals are processed with boules. Leaves, petals, and sepals are mainly used to make leaves, petals, and sepals on a semi-soft cushion. The soft rubber pad can be replaced with a pad of sand, well washed and dried. Rolls, knives, rings, and irons must always be hot when working.

Supporting materials. In addition to fabric, for making even the most simple flower it is necessary to have auxiliary materials: dyes, adhesives, etc.

As dyes In the production of artificial flowers, aniline dyes for cotton and woolen fabrics, Rainbow ink, food confectionery dyes, gouache, ink, and photo paints are usually used. Note that paints diluted not with water, but with cologne or vodka, are brighter, cleaner, and dry faster.

Required colors: yellow, red, blue, purple, green, crimson, brown, orange, black. For creating the right shades and paint tones are mixed together. So to get Orange color, you need to mix yellow with red. You will get juicy greens if you combine yellow with turquoise. Light greens form when mixed lemon color with blue.

Glue for flowers it must be durable, dry quickly, not leave dirty marks, and not discolor the paint on the petals and leaves. Office glue is no good! You need to prepare the glue yourself.

Flour paste. Sifted flour (1-2 tablespoons) is poured with a small amount of cold water and thoroughly stirred until creamy, then, stirring, heated over low heat until the flour is brewed. Paste is used both warm and cold for gluing paper, fixing “pollen”, that is, starch, semolina on the stamens, and gluing petals to the core of the flower.

Dextrin glue (mail). The finished yellow-brown powder is diluted warm water. Glue is used like paste for working with paper, stamens, and petals. If the glue has dried in the cup, then you need to pour a little hot water and, when it softens, drain off the excess water and stir.

PVA glues. These are the best glues for making flowers.

Gelatin glue . 1 teaspoon of gelatin is poured into ½ cup of cold water, after 40 minutes (after swelling) 2 tablespoons of flour and 1 teaspoon of sugar are added. Everything is thoroughly mixed and brought to a boil over low heat.

Wire. For the manufacture of colors will suit wire of various sections: thin, medium, thick. For the stems, use aluminum wire; its thickness depends on the weight of the flower. Steel wire no good. The flower should sway on the stem, which gives it more naturalness.

Paper. Cigarette or crepe decorative paper of various colors is necessary for wrapping wire. Most often, green and brown paper is required. If you don’t have a colored one, you can paint the white one in the appropriate color.

Cotton wool. White cotton wool will be needed for entwining the stems and making the cores of some flowers. If you need colored wool, then white cotton wool painted in the desired color. The paint is diluted with water to the desired tone, cotton wool is dipped into it, lightly squeezed and dried on paper.

Threads. For the stamens you will need the threads different colors. You can use darning, iris, floss. The most commonly used threads or darning are brown, yellow, orange, burgundy, black and green.

Basic Operations

Stem flower. The stem is the base of the flower. It must be quite strong and rigid, since in addition to the blossoming flower, it contains leaves and buds. Before you start making flowers, you need to learn how to wrap the wire with cotton wool and paper (Fig. 2).

Rice. 2. Making stems, attaching leaves.

It is better to practice on a short wire 10-12 cm long. The wire is taken into left hand and hold it between the thumb and forefinger, and with the right finger place a strip on top of it at an angle of 45° thin paper 0.5-0.8 cm wide. Using the fingers of the left hand, rotate the wire towards itself around its axis, causing a strip of paper to spirally wrap around the wire. The paper should lie neatly on the wire, without wrinkles, tightly wrapping it in a spiral. While there is no skill, the wire can be lightly greased with paste before work.

The stems of buds, stamens, and wires for leaves are wrapped in the same way. If a thick stem is needed, the wire is wrapped with a very thin layer of cotton wool, smeared with paste and then wrapped with paper.

Petals, leaves, stamens. The main material for making flowers is fabric. Flowers can be made from cambric, madapolama, calico, chiffon, crepe de Chine, silk, satin, chintz.

How to starch fabric. Any fabric for flowers must be starched. Starch is prepared as follows. Pour 2 cups of water into a small saucepan and bring to a boil. Then a tablespoon (with the top) of potato flour (starch) is diluted in a small amount of cold water and poured into boiling water in a thin stream, stirring occasionally. You should get a thick jelly without lumps. If there are lumps, then filter the hot jelly through cheesecloth.

A piece of dry fabric is spread on an oilcloth and slightly cooled jelly is applied to it by hand. A second piece is placed on the first piece, the whole procedure is repeated again, etc. The starched pieces of fabric are removed one by one and, without squeezing, hung on a rope, grabbed by the edges with clothespins. You can starch cotton fabrics in another way. Dry fabric is crumpled in your hands and dipped in hot starch (jelly), soaked well, excess starch is squeezed out with your fingers and dried on wooden sliding frames.

Silk fabrics - chiffon, crepe de Chine, natural silk It is recommended to gelatinize. The gelatin solution is prepared as follows: pour 2 teaspoons (without top) of gelatin into a glass, fill the glass halfway with cold water, leave for 1 hour, top up the glass with water and heat it in a metal container until the gelatin is completely dissolved.

Do not boil the gelatin solution under any circumstances!

The fabric is immersed in a hot gelatin solution, the excess is squeezed out without twisting, and dried on a line, like starched fabric. Well-treated fabric rustles like paper.

Making a pattern. To make a flower, you need to have patterns of its parts: petals, leaves, sepals. For patterns you will need a thick thin cardboard. On each pattern they write the name of the flower, indicate the number of petals, corollas or leaves, and their serial number. All patterns of one flower are strung on a thin wire. Starched fabric for flowers is folded in four, pinned in several places with pins, patterns are applied, and traced with a simple pencil“TM” and then cut out exactly according to the drawing so that pencil marks are not noticeable. It must be remembered that the patterns must be applied to the fabric along an oblique thread (Fig. 3-a), otherwise the petals will not be shaped later the desired shape during processing. But if the pattern has the shape of a corolla, that is, individual petals are collected together in 3, 5 or more pieces, then some petals will inevitably turn out along a straight thread.

Rice. 3. Placement of the pattern on the fabric along the bias thread (a) and petals with an allowance for gluing (b).

If the petals need to be glued together so that the flower takes the form of a bell, then an allowance is made on the pattern at the junction (Fig. 3-b). Leaves for flowers are cut out only along an oblique thread.

Coloring of petals and leaves. To color petals, leaves, and paper, it is more convenient to use paints dissolved in a small amount of boiling water. Before painting, the petals are moistened in cold water and wrung out using paper napkins or between the palms. The fabric for the leaves is painted in large (0.5-1 m) patches, dried, and then starched. If the petals are monochromatic, without shades, they are painted completely, immersed in a saucer with paint, the excess paint is squeezed out on the edge of the saucer and, one at a time, laid out with tweezers on a newspaper to dry. In some flowers, only the middle or edges of the corollas are painted. The edges of the petals are either tinted with a brush, or 5-10 corollas are carefully folded together and moistened in clean water, squeeze between your palms and rotate, lightly touching the very edges of the paint rims in the saucer. Dry the whisks, placing them one at a time on newspaper. But most flowers have a variety of shades and almost all petals have a greenish-yellow bottom. Such petals are painted like this: 5-10 petals are carefully folded according to size, that is, large ones with large ones, and small ones with small ones, moistened in water, and squeezed out. Pinch the middle of the petals with your fingers and paint bottom part in a saucer with lettuce paint, and the top one in a saucer with another paint. Strict care is taken to ensure that the colors do not merge, but smoothly transition from one color to another.

Stamens. The stamens of flowering and ornamental plants are very diverse. Compare the stamens of lily of the valley, forget-me-nots, chamomile, cornflower, water lilies, scarlet poppy, etc. Each flower is uniquely individual. The stamens decorate the flower, and they need to be done carefully, making them as life-like as possible.

Stamens are made from gauze, bobbin thread, floss, silk, and wool. “Pollen” is made from semolina, sealing wax, pata, var, rosin, small sawdust, and tooth powder. It is better to starch or gelatinize the threads for the stamens. To do this, the threads are pulled at a certain distance from one another and soaked in hot starch so that they do not stick together.

Starched dry threads are wound around two fingers or two pencils to make stamen tassels. Their size and color depend on the flower. The resulting skein is removed, the middle is secured with wire, which is then bent in half and twisted at the very threads. The skein is cut in the middle, the threads are trimmed with scissors - a core is obtained from individual threads-stamens (Fig. 4).

Rice. 4. Making stamens from threads.

Stamens for 2 pencils do this: take pencils, as well as wire 20-25 cm long, threads of the desired color are tightly wound on them, then the wire is bent in half, twisted, the pencils are pulled out, the resulting skein is cut in the middle, aligned. The stamens are ready. Their ends are carefully greased with paste and dipped in yellow or white semolina. For "pollen" semolina paint as follows: dry paint is diluted with cologne or vodka, semolina is poured into it, mixed, and dried on paper. Stamens are made from gauze in this way: a small piece of crumpled gauze is placed in the middle of a 25 cm long wire, the wire is wrapped around it in the middle, the wire is twisted under the bundle, and the sides are cut, making the tassel convex.

The colored heads of the stamens are made from pata, which is prepared on the basis of glue and paint (additives may be different). For example, they use a mixture of flour, water (a teaspoon each), some glue and dry paint of the desired color.

If there is no dry paint, then take a teaspoon instead of water. liquid paint. This can be “Rainbow” ink, concentrated whitewash paint, gouache, ink (not alcohol). To get black shiny heads, use shoe polish with rosin. Heat a piece of shoe polish and the same amount of rosin to a boil and stir. The ends of individual stamens are dipped into the hot mixture and black shiny heads are obtained. In the same way, heads are made from sealing wax or rosin alone.

Rice. 5. Making stamens by pulling the fabric through the hole of the iron.

For some flowers, the stamens are made of starched material in the form of tubes. Strips of fabric are cut along a 1.5 cm wide thread and pulled through a hole with a diameter of 5-7 mm using a hot iron (Fig. 5). Stamen-tubes are found in flowers such as anthurium, calla, etc.

Chamomile

Artificial daisies are made from well-starched chintz, silk, thick cambric, satin, to make the daisies look more beautiful, the blooming flower is collected from two corollas (Fig. 6).

Rice. 6. Chamomile.

Field daisies. Field daisies (white and yellow) are smaller than garden daisies. In white chamomile, the area of ​​the corollas adjacent to the core (no more than 2 cm in diameter) is painted a pale greenish-yellow color. To make the color natural, without sharp color boundaries, the corollas are tinted while wet.

Yellow (brown, lemon yellow) daisies are made with brighter edges of the petals. To do this, wet corollas are completely painted an even yellow or Brown color, lay out one at a time on a newspaper and, using a soft brush or cotton wool on a match, apply more to the ends of the still wet petals. bright paint. In Fig. 7 shows patterns of flowers, buds and leaves of chamomile.

Rice. 7. Chamomile pattern.

Core. For the core of daisies you will need cotton wool, a bandage, floss threads, darning of the desired color, from which a low, dense brush with a diameter of 1.5 cm (for field daisies) and 2 cm (for garden daisies) is made. To do this, soft threads or darning are wound around two fingers 30-35 times. The core is made convex or with a depression by carefully trimming the ends of the brush with sharp scissors. Yellow daisies have a brown core, white and colored ones have a yellow-green core.

Corollas. Each chamomile petal is processed on semi-rigid rubber with a double-core knife on the face and a single-core knife on the back (Fig. 8). A single-core knife can be replaced with a small boule. In the middle of each petal from top to bottom, use a hot two-core knife to make a deep groove. This front side daisies. Turning the corolla of the chamomile face down, run a single-strand knife along the sides of the middle groove along one vein, as well as a vein along the contour of the petal, trying to guide the knife along its very edge. A medium-sized loaf of bread is poured from the face into the middle of the corolla. Before this, the middles of the corollas are pierced with an awl. The corolla to the bud is “bulged” from the inside out.

Rice. 8. Processing the petal with a single-core knife.

Leaves and calyxes. Leaves and calyxes are cut out from well-starched green material. The chamomile leaves “sit” directly on the stem; they are processed with a single-core knife from the front and back on semi-rigid rubber. The gluing cups are pierced with an awl in the center and treated with a ball of soft rubber.

Flower assembly. When assembling a flower, the wire with the core glued to it is held with the free end up. The first corolla is pressed against the base of the core, greased with glue, the second so that its petals fit into the spaces of the first corolla. The last thing to attach is the cup-glue. A bud is made from one corolla smaller size, the petals of which, raised upward, almost completely cover the core. A cup-glue is glued to the base of the core: The main stem of the chamomile is made of aluminum wire 40-45 cm long. The wire with the flower is grafted (screwed) onto the stem. In order for the flower to sway, the length of the wire from the base of the flower to the stem must be at least 8 cm. Then the stem is wrapped in green paper, at the same time placing the bud, as well as the leaves, one below the other. For a bouquet, make several daisies without buds.

Daisies can be placed in a low vase. A bouquet of white and yellow daisies will become more beautiful if you add a few artificial cornflowers to it.

Poppy

In nature, yellow, white, lilac, red, pale purple, and pink poppies are found.

Field poppies (Fig. 9) are made from red satin, calico, scarlet, red silk, and crepe de Chine. The most natural poppy flower is obtained from crepe de Chine or dense cambric.

Rice. 9. Mac.

Poppy heart. The poppy core consists of a crown and numerous stamens. The poppy is made from cotton wool. A small cocoon is wound into the middle of a 20-25 cm long wire (Fig. 10). The wire is bent in half and twisted under the base of the resulting ball, the diameter of which is 1-1.2 cm. The ball is covered with a 6x6 cm square of green crepe paper on top. At the base of the core of the ball, the paper is secured with black threads and the crown is tied crosswise 4 times. The stamens are tied up in the crown.

Rice. 10. Making a crown (the letters indicate the sequence of the operation).

Stamens. Poppy stamens are made from black spools of starched thread or from black copy paper. Spool threads No. 10 are wound on 3 fingers 25 times, pulled in the middle with thin wire and the ends are trimmed evenly. You will need two such stamens. The stamens are lightly greased with glue and dipped in semolina, which can be painted in a pale green color. Both tassels are applied to the crown, the stamens are evenly distributed around and secured at the base with threads.

Rice. 11. Making poppy stamens.

Stamens from carbon paper are made like this: across a sheet of carbon paper, a strip 4 cm wide is folded in four and cut on one side by 2.5 cm, obtaining a fringe (Fig. 11). Then this strip is folded with a tassel, the ends of the fringe are smeared with glue and dipped in semolina. A strip with fringe is glued in a circle to the finished poppy-stamen. Excess paper under the crown is cut off.

Tinting the petals. Poppy petals (4-7 pieces) are tinted dry. The sharp lower end of the petals is treated with ink or purple and even black ink. Using a soft brush or cotton ball on a match, draw an almond-shaped spot at the bottom of the petals (Fig. 12, a).

Rice. 12. Processing poppy petals: a - tint; b - obtaining veins and corrugation.

Petal processing. After drying, the petals are processed on semi-hard rubber with a hot single-core knife, drawing the veins in a fan-shape from the face and in the spaces between them from the inside out. To make it work beautiful fan, the corrugation of the petals begins with the middle groove, which is drawn from the top of the petal to the almond-shaped spot. This groove divides the petal into two halves. In the middle of each half, another similar groove is made (Fig. 12, b). These guide grooves will help to correctly guide the other strips; the result is corrugated petals, the tucks at the base are smaller and larger at the top. After processing with your fingers, pull out the edges of the petals, and the middle and dark spot Squeeze it hard with a large hot boule on soft rubber.

Rice. 13. Making adhesive.

Leaves and gluing. The leaves and cup-glue are cut from greenish-gray fabric. The backing (Fig. 13) is squeezed out with a bottle in the shape of a boat. The leaves (Fig. 14) are corrugated on both sides with a single-core knife and wire is glued on the inside.

Rice. 14. Making poppy leaves.

Bud. The cotton wool bud has a cocoon 2 cm long. The cocoon is pulled along with a thread, the entire cocoon is smeared with green paste and sprinkled with finely cut wool. An incision is made on the dried cocoon in its upper part, into which a small crumpled piece of fabric of the same color as the poppy petals is glued. This is a bud beginning to bloom. This bud can be made a little differently. Two corrugated petals are glued to a small dome with stamens - one opposite the other. Glue the cup-glue, wrap the stem with cotton wool and then green paper (Fig. 15).

Rice. 15. Poppy bud.

Flower assembly. A poppy flower consists of 4-7 petals. From 7 petals, a poppy is assembled as follows: 3 petals are strung and glued one after another onto a wire with a crown, then 4 more are glued. When assembling, the flower is held head down, the glue is allowed to dry and then the stem is wrapped with cotton wool, which is lightly greased with paste or glue and wrapped a strip of green (not bright) paper. Below on the stem, 2 leaves are fixed at once, and between them a stem with a bud. The poppy stems are made bristly and shaggy, for which they are smeared with glue and sprinkled with finely chopped wool, dyed green. Thanks to great variety Poppies are used for coloring - for bouquets and compositions separately and in combination with other plants.

cornflower

Garden cornflowers (Fig. 16) are larger than field ones and their colors are more varied. They are white, lilac, reddish-pink. To make cornflowers, you can take any thin, but well-starched, dense material. Garden cornflowers are cut out according to the pattern (Fig. 17), cutting out 2 corollas per blooming flower and 2 corollas per bud, as well as 8-10 green leaves.

Rice. 16. Cornflower.

Rice. 17. Pattern of corolla, bud, cornflower leaves.

Coloring the corollas of field and garden cornflowers. To prevent the small cloves of cornflowers from becoming shaggy during the dyeing process, you need to cut out not corollas from the fabric, but slightly larger circles size than the pattern. These mugs in a stack of 10-12 pieces are moistened in clean cold water. Excess water is squeezed out with your fingers or using paper napkins.

Field cornflowers are painted as follows: blue paint dilute with boiling water and pour into 2 saucers. Add a little water to the first saucer and use a piece of cloth to determine the resulting tone of paint, which should be lighter than the paint in the second saucer. It is recommended to select tones and tint in daylight. Wet mugs are first immersed in light paint, the excess is squeezed out on the edge of the saucer and laid out on paper or newspaper using tweezers. Use a soft brush or small cotton swab to paint dark paint(from the second saucer) the center of each circle. The dried mugs are stacked in 3-4 pieces, pinned and the rims are cut out according to the pattern. The center of the corollas is pierced with an awl.

Corollas for white cornflowers are painted slightly differently. The mugs are moistened in cold water, squeezed out with napkins and laid out on paper. For dried but still wet circles, a greenish-yellow spot with a diameter of 2-2.5 cm is drawn in the center, which should not have sharp boundaries. Dried mugs are stacked in groups of 3-4 and the rims are cut out.

Corolla processing. All cornflower corollas are processed with a hot single-core knife on semi-soft rubber. The whisk is placed on the rubber and grooves are made along each clove from the edge to the center with a knife. This wrong side corolla Then the whisk is turned over front side up and along the sides of the midrib, one groove is drawn with a hot single-core knife, due to which the midrib becomes convex. The largest tooth of each petal is gently lifted upward with your fingers. The middle of the corollas is treated with medium-sized boules. For a blossoming cornflower, the center of the corollas is “boiled” from the face, for buds - from the inside, so that the corollas close into buds.

Stamens. In nature, the stamens of cornflowers are very complex. For artificial flower The stamens can be made more simplified, the decorativeness of the cornflower will not be lost. Stamens for field cornflower are made from spool threads, blue floss purple flowers in the form of a brush (as indicated in section). The ends of the stamens are smeared with paste and dipped in tooth powder or white semolina. Stamens are made for both the flower and the bud. For white cornflower, black, blue-violet stamens are possible.

Flower assembly. The wire with the stamen tassel is held with the head down. Lubricate the base of the brush with paste and glue it to it, stringing one whisk onto a wire. Then string the second whisk and glue it so that the teeth of one whisk fit between the teeth of the other. 2 corolla-buds are glued to the second stamen-tassel. A thickening in the form of a jug is twisted from greenish-brown cotton wool under the flower and bud, smeared with paste so that the cotton wool retains its shape. Stems made of thin wire are lightly wrapped with cotton wool, then with green tissue paper. These short stems with a flower and a bud are attached, like daisies, to peduncle stems made of aluminum wire 30-35 cm long. The upper part of such stems is wrapped in green paper and slightly bent in the form of an arc. A flower is attached to one peduncle, and a cornflower bud is attached to the other; leaves are located along the stem, one lower than the other. Leaves are processed in a simple way. Each leaf is folded lengthwise and the edges are slightly pulled out.

Wildflowers are good in a bouquet with several ears of ripe rye. A bouquet of scarlet field poppies, white daisies and field cornflowers will look great.

Flowers are a great solution for additional decoration of an apartment. They give the house a warm, cozy spring look, and the smell of various flowers can turn an ordinary room into a beautiful fragrant garden. But not everyone can afford to keep fresh flowers at home: some suffer from allergies, some have a cat that turns over everything it sees, and some simply do not have time to care for plants. In such cases, DIY artificial flowers come to the rescue.

In our article you will find out what materials you can make them from, see master classes on making artificial flowers, as well as photos.

Advantages and disadvantages of artificial flowers

pros

• No maintenance required. If you are getting ready to travel, then you won’t be overwhelmed by worries about your green friends, wondering who to ask to water and fertilize them. The most you will have to do is wipe the dust off them from time to time.
• Durability. Everyone knows the property of flowers to fade and dry out. This does not harm artificial flowers. So, if you want to have a long photo shoot that requires wreaths, feel free to choose artificial flowers (especially since they will look brighter in the photographs).
• Also, you are not in danger of various insects or diseases appearing in your flowers;
• Anti-allergenic. They do not contain any pollen, which makes it possible for allergy sufferers to create floral decorations in the home.
• "Anti-dirt". If you have animals or children, overturning flowers, as well as scattered earth and spilled water, cannot be avoided. For artificial flowers, neither one nor the other is needed: you can forget about running around with a rag and a broom;
• The ability to place green pets in any part of the house, without risk to them.

Minuses

• No matter how beautiful and skillfully handmade flowers are, they can never replicate the smell of natural ones. Although some people buy special sprays or essential oils with the smell of flowers that they spray on their fake pets;
• If flower making has gone from low-quality materials, they can cause allergies;
• Some materials tend to fade in the sun, but this will take about a year (or even more);

Materials for making flowers

You can create a flower arrangement from various materials. We will tell you about the most popular and relevant ones. So, what are artificial flowers made from:

• Paper;
• Fabric (chiffon, felt, silk, satin and others);
• Tree;
• Mastic, plasticine, clay;
• Herbarium;
• Porcelain;
• Candies;
• Leather and so on.

Also, to make flowers you may need: hot glue, wire, threads, and various beads, rhinestones, ribbons, bows and buttons will help you design the bouquets the way you want.

Flowers for home

For your home, you can create floral arrangements of any colors, styles and sizes: it can be a bouquet of roses, a flower garland, small individual flowers for decorating certain parts of the apartment and its elements (for example, a curtain). The main thing is that the flowers should suit the interior, and also be pleasant for you personally.

DIY boutonniere

We will need:

• Small pieces (rectangular) cotton fabric several flowers (one for the bud, the second for the leaves);
• Wire for floristry;
• Decorative tape (width about 6 mm);
• Tape;
• Curly and regular scissors;
• Hot glue (in the absence of such, regular PVA will do).

1. Fold the fabric in half to make a square;
2. Then fold the square diagonally to form a triangle;
3. Trim two corners of the triangle: one at the base (longer side) and the other at the top. The resulting piece should resemble a droplet. By unfolding this piece you should get a flower;
4. It needs to be glued to the wire using glue.

Petal:

1. Glue the fabric chosen for the petal to the wire, then cut everything so that you get the shape of a petal (narrow at the edges, wide at the center);

You can also improve your product with various decorative embellishments.

Bride's bouquet of artificial flowers

We all know the old wedding tradition: Throwing the bride's bouquet into a crowd of bridesmaids and other female guests looking to steal a piece of happiness. But often wedding bouquets are quite heavy, and it is unlikely that anyone would want to accidentally hit them on the head when fishing. In such cases, a stand-in bouquet is often used, which is lighter. The ideal solution for him is to create a bouquet of artificial flowers.

You can also use it as a small memorable gift: such a bouquet, created by a friend’s hands and presented on the wedding day, will melt the heart of every bride.

You will need

• - polystyrene foam or oasis;
• - a basket, tray, flowerpot or any other form for the composition;
• - artificial flowers;
• - wire;
• - ribbon;
• - scissors or knife.

Instructions

To do composition from artificial colors, first of all, select and prepare the plants. Flowers can be bought at the store or made yourself. Remove excess leaves and twigs from plants, divide a bouquet of several colors into parts.

Make a base for the composition; it is most convenient to use a special oasis for colors or polystyrene foam. Cut it into the desired shape and place it in a basket, a pot, a vase - any shape that will match the surroundings and flowers. You can hang it on the wall, in which case prepare a frame or weave a edging for the composition from a vine. If your composition will stand on a table and the bottom of the basket is narrow, consider making it more stable. For example, you can attach a metal plate or other heavy object to the bottom.

Start with the highest colors, stick them into the foam or oasis in the right place. Then go to colors middle length, make sure that each flower is clearly visible and matches the others. Lastly, decorate the front and surface of the oasis with short plants, and the base of the composition should not be visible anywhere. If you still cannot completely cover the foam, cover it with pebbles, shells or sand (you can even glue it) or cover it with decorative hay.

To make a tall bouquet for a vase, tie the selected flowers together. Hold the stem together with the large end of the tape and index finger, and with your other hand hold the remaining end of the tape. Rotate the stem and wrap the ribbon around it, gradually adding new flower heads. Then secure the tape.

All flowers in the composition should be clearly visible, so strictly adhere to the levels. If necessary, reduce or increase the length of the stem. To increase the length, cut a piece of wire of the required length, attach it to the stem of the flower and wrap it with tape (if the stem disappears later). If it is in plain sight, find or make the same stem (you can cut it from another, unnecessary or hidden flower) and secure it at the head itself.

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• how to make artificial flowers yourself

Making artificial flowers is not so easy, but it is possible. If you work hard, then such flowers from afar will pass for real and will decorate your interior no worse than their living and fragrant counterparts.

Instructions

Let's start with . The stem, which is the basis of any flower, can be made of strong wire wrapped in cotton wool and paper. A thin stem can be made by wrapping the wire in paper, and a thick stem can be made with cotton wool, on which the paper is then wound. This activity requires a certain skill, so it would be useful to lubricate the wire with a thin layer of paste or office glue.

Elements of an artificial flower made of fabric must be starched. For this you need. Prepare it as follows: pour 2 glasses of water into a saucepan and bring to a boil. At the same time, we spread a spoon with a mound potato starch or flour in cold water and pour it all into boiling water, stirring. If there are lumps, strain the jelly through cheesecloth.

The gelatin composition is prepared as follows: pour 2 teaspoons of gelatin into a glass of cold water, leave for an hour, top up the glass and heat in a metal container until the gelatin dissolves. Just do not boil the solution at any time.

We make patterns from thick cardboard and sign so as not to be confused. We paint the petals and other parts with paints previously dissolved in boiling water. Before painting the petals, we dip them in cold water and squeeze it out.

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Helpful advice

This is how you can make and prepare individual parts of an artificial flower, and you don’t need any special skills to connect them into one.

Every person sometimes wants changes, creative acts, decorations of their own home. You can do this using a composition from colors. This will help refresh the atmosphere in the apartment. Compositions from colors they are very amazing with their charm, and most importantly, such a miracle is very easy to make yourself from dry or freshly cut colors, different beads and colored stones.

You will need

• Beautiful beads, artificial decorations, glass pebbles or stone sand, bright wire, flowers, with not very long stems different sizes, large vase or glass bowl, required amount of water.

Instructions

Prepare a container. Pour required amount water, slightly more than the length of the stems, into the prepared vase.

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note

Flowers should be cut slightly at an angle to keep them fresh longer.

Helpful advice

To create soil, use stones of different sizes, but do not add sand, otherwise the water will quickly deteriorate. Decorative stones must be clean.

Such vintage frames with vases made from bottles will certainly create spring mood in your house. They are not only very easy to make, but also save space in the room.

You will need

• - wooden frames
• - dye
• - craquelure varnish
• - leg-split
• - bottles

Instructions

First, let's add a little "age" to the frames. Cover with paint. Let it dry a little and coat the top with craquelure varnish. If you don’t have craquelure varnish, then you can completely dry make scratches in some places and rub the frame a little with sandpaper.

When the frames are ready, take a piece of twine and make a loop around the top of the frame. This will make it easier to remove the bottles to wash later. We wrap the other end of the twine around the neck of the bottle several times and tie it.

If the frame is wide, then two small bottles can be tied to it.

We hang the finished frames on the wall, fill the bottles with water, put flowers and enjoy!

In order to add additional zest to the interior, a small skein is enough. copper wire. Now you will find out how simple wire will turn into a decorative vase.

Making flowers with your own hands is an interesting and exciting option for handicrafts. At the same time, you always have the right to choose among master classes, thanks to the possibility of using absolutely any materials.

Handmade flowers can serve as decoration in different situations. With the help of hand-made flowers, you can decorate hair accessories - hairpins or headbands, clothes, when the flower appears in the form of a brooch, and also with the help of crafts of this kind from various materials you can get wonderful interior decor components.

It's no secret that modern market handicraft offers for use various materials, from which you can easily and simply make flowers of any type and size. Starting from the simplest flowers made of paper:

Napkins:

From paper for quilling technique:

And ending with more complex compositions made from various fabric combinations:

You can use handmade flowers in various situations:

DIY flower made from paper and napkins

This method of creating a flower is the simplest. It’s interesting that you can create absolutely any color options from plain paper, you just need to be perseverant and show a little imagination. Moreover, it is not at all necessary to master the basics of the origami technique. For example, using regular napkin and twigs from any tree, you can create a blooming sakura branch.

Any colored napkins are suitable for creating flowers. If they are not found in the house, then you can use any multi-layer toilet paper suitable color. In addition, you will also need the following set of components:

Green threads;

To begin, tear off a piece the size of a matchbox from a napkin. At the same time, leave the edges uneven; this can be done on purpose. Roll the piece so that it resembles a folded flower.

Wrap the tail of the flower with green thread or tape.

The flower should be attached to the branch using green threads. If using the Nikto turns out to be too difficult for you, you can use simple tape for fastening.

We make the desired number of flowers and enjoy the result.

You can also make flowers with your own hands from simple colored paper using the origami technique. For example, the technique of making a lily is quite simple to master:

Flowers in the form of balls are interesting, they will amaze you not only with their ease of execution, but also with their size:

You only need 8 sheets of paper, wire and scissors.

First you need to fold all 8 sheets on top of each other and fold them like an accordion. Using a thin wire, make a fastening in the center of the craft. Trim the edges of the workpiece in a semicircle.

Unroll layer by layer, starting from the center. The flower is ready!

Chrysanthemum lovers may like this manufacturing technique:

You should stock up on green paper;

A sheet of paper for notes (10x10cm);

Scissors;

Wooden skewer.

Make 8 elements from white paper that will be the base of the flower. To make each element, fold white paper as if cutting out a snowflake: in half, in half, diagonally. Round the edge of the triangle. Cut into thin fringe. As a result we get:

We assemble a whisk from the elements and glue it onto a round base:

We fluff the upper parts with our fingers, and also create three more such elements, making each of them 2-3mm shorter than the previous one.

We cut it into fringes, lift the ends and glue them.

We complement the flower with leaves and stem.

From paper using various techniques You can make magnificent rose options:

Flowers from corrugated paper

As an alternative to plain paper, you can use corrugated paper, which allows you to get ideal options flower arrangements. Of course, it will take more time to work and perseverance than in the case of making flowers from napkins or plain paper. However, the result will undoubtedly please you.

To get a bouquet like in the photo below you will need several rolls of paper:

The number of rolls and their colors depends entirely on your imagination and the number of color options that you would like to see in the end. In addition, you need a thread and a clothespin.

We fold each roll of paper like an accordion so that it is longer than the previous one.

We cut the end of each strip into triangles.

We connect the edges with a clothespin and cut into pieces.

We stack the parts on top of each other and tighten the resulting multi-colored roll with threads.

Be sure to straighten each petal.

The exotic flower is ready!

Using corrugated paper, you can get various options:

Fabric flowers

Fabric flowers are used to decorate items of clothing, interiors and hair accessories. Modern needlework has hundreds of ways to create fabric flowers, and any needlewoman can invent each new one on her own.