Kanzashi for Absolute Beginners

Folded Fabric Flowers for Hair Clips, Brooches and Décor - Made from Squares of Cloth

von Richard Leonard Lorke

104 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

A square of cloth, three folds, and a petal. Everything in this book grows from that.Kanzashi is the Japanese craft of folding small squares of fabric into petals and joining them into flowers. It needs no sewing machine, no heat tool and no special equipment. A pair of tweezers, a needle, strong thread and a scrap of cotton are enough to make a piece worth wearing.This book teaches the craft from the first square. Two petal shapes are taught fold by fold, with the measurement you should see after every single fold, so you can check your work against a ruler instead of against a photograph. Everything after that is built from those two shapes.What you will learn- Which fabrics hold a crease and which will never hold one, with a suitability table for seventeen common cloths- How to cut squares that match, and why mismatched squares are the commonest cause of a crooked flower- The round petal and the pointed petal, step by step, plus the double and twisted variations- How to stop cut edges fraying, and how to stiffen a cloth that will not hold a fold- Threading, closing and centering a flower so it sits flat and stays closed- Layers, buds, leaves and trailing pieces- Backing a flower and fixing it to clips, combs, headbands, hairpins, pin backs and rings- Working in black, white and grey, and reading tone rather than colour- A fault-finding chapter that names what you see, what caused it and how to fix itTen projects, in order of difficultyThey begin with a five-petal blossom on a snap clip and end with a thirty-petal layered brooch. Each one lists its materials, its tools, its numbered steps and a short checklist to run through before you call it finished.The book closes with fifteen questions beginners actually ask, a quick reference page of sizes and petal counts, a glossary and an index.Made for people who have never sewn. No pattern reading, no machine, no hot glue. Every method works at room temperature, and every project is designed to work in ordinary cotton.Note on the interior: the pages are printed in black and white, and the book is written to be followed that way. Fabrics are described by tone and weave rather than by colour, and the photographs are greyscale. This book was created using artificial intelligence tools. Its text, illustrations and cover artwork are AI-generated. Any people shown in the illustrations are AI-generated and do not depict real individuals.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798175661195
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 19.09.2026
• Größe: 254 x 178 mm
• Verlag: Independently published