Kanzashi is a traditional Japanese hair ornament. They appeared about four hundred years ago. During this period, there was a "coup" of the female hairstyle in Japan. Women abandoned the traditional style when the hair had to fall. It has become fashionable to style your hair in bizarre forms with the help of a comb and various pins. At that time, Kansashe's combs and stilettos appeared.
Kansas have survived several generations, constantly changing and gaining increasing popularity. In the end, Kansas became a refined and very popular decoration, and in some cases even a weapon in emergency situations. But this is only in a certain period of time.
The Japanese costume does not imply any jewelry on the neck or hands of a woman. The only way to decorate yourself is to use flowers in your hair. Today, Kanzas again begin to become popular, and not only in their homeland. Kansashe jewelry found its admirers far beyond Japan. If initially it was only hairpins and combs, today Kanzas from tapes decorate all kinds of plastic and metal hairpins, they are used as an ornament for decorating a hairdress.
Manufacturing of Kansashes
At present, a very large number of different materials are used for the manufacture of Kanzash. For the production of the comb, varnishing is used for wood, plastic, gold and silver. Flowers for kanzash are made from ribbons. Most often, Kanzas are made from satin ribbons, while still using satin and less often rep-ribbon. Flowers are made in tsumami technique - folding. At the lessons of Kanzashi, the ribbon in the skillful hands of the master turns into beautiful flowers: using tweezers (or forceps), a square from the tape folds and folds so that the petal turns out. Then these flowers should be attached to the comb or hair clip. For beginners, making Kansas at first seems a very complicated and painstaking process. But after a while, making flowers becomes a very fascinating and interesting hobby.
Lessons of Kanzash
Today, this Japanese art has become a very popular hobby among women. Many needlewomen post on the Internet lessons on making kanzash for beginners. There are two main types of petals: sharp and round. These two are composed of a huge number of colors.
Let's try to make a sharp petal for kanzash. We will need the following tools:
- satin ribbons of different widths (3,4,5 cm);
- tweezers;
- hairpins or hairpins;
- glue, scissors, candle.
Cut the squares from the ribbon. Now we begin to add our petal. First, add the square diagonally. The resulting triangle is folded in the middle, doing this twice. The ends of the triangle need to be trimmed, scorched and immediately
This flower can be attached to the base. For example, you can make a hair band. To do this, take the usual flat button. We tighten the button with a cloth, preferably in the tone of the flower. We glue the flower to the workpiece with the help of glue. You can decorate the flower with various rhinestones, beads or paillettes. On the back of the adhesive gum. In the same way you can make hairpins or hairpins. You can make several colors of different sizes and make a composition. Make the petals more voluminous and magnificent, you can if you superimpose one triangle on another. Then do all the steps of folding the petal.