DIY Easy Fabric Flowers No Tools | Vintage millinery technique

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This video is all about making fabric flowers without the use of specialist flower making tools or equipment. I’m demonstrating 3 completely different techniques that can be modified in all sorts of different ways to achieve a plethora of looks. All you need is the correct fabrics and your hands.
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→ Organza Rose ←
- Silk organza
- Matching thread
- Flower petal patterns (5L, 4M, 4S)
- Fabric scissors
- Small scissors
- Pliers
- Tweezers
- Pins
- Needle
- Cotton wool
- Wire (0.4mm cotton covered)
→ Stamens for Cotton Organdie Poppy ←
- Old photo frame
- Thread
- PVA craft glue
- Acrylic paint to match thread colour
- Toothpick
- Mixing stick
- Mixing containers
- Paintbrush
- Scissors
- 1 sheet a4 paper
- Corn starch
→ Cotton Organdie Poppy ←
- Stamens (4 groups of 16 - 64 in total)
- Cotton organdie
- Muslin cloth
- Bowl of water
- Wire (0.4mm cotton covered)
- Wire (0.16mm beading wire)
- Cotton wool
- Black satin or crepe (a tiny bit)
- Needles, threads, pins etc
- Pliers
- Fabric scissors
- Small scissors
- Flat 2 hole button (2.5cm)
- Poppy petal pattern (4 small, 4 medium)
→ Wired Ombre Ribbon Pansy ←
- Wired ombre ribbon 2.5cm wide (50cm per flower)
- Matching thread (or clear beading thread)
- Small scissors
- Beading needles
- Tweezers
- Seed Beads for the centres
→ Flower making books ←
archive.org/details/artofhand...
The art of handmade flowers
by Iida, Miyuki, 1903-2007; Iida, Tomoko,
archive.org/details/makingarr...
Making and arranging silk flowers
by Hamilton, Anne
→ Suggested suppliers ←
Petershams Millinery Supplies
Beckford Silk
Borovik Fabrics
Cloth House
VV Rouleaux
→ Time Stamps ←
0:00 Introduction
0:56 Silk Organza Rose
3:20 DIY Stamens
4:39 Cotton Organdie Poppy
7:36 Wired Ribbon Pansy
9:30 Variations
#millinery #hats #flowermaking

[@ByIlonaMillinery]

If you've enjoyed this video please like & subscribe 👍🔔, this really helps me grow and reach a larger audience ❤️ I post new videos or do a live stream from my studio every week ✨✨✨

[@eclecticcode]

I love these. The individual pansy petals look so much like sweet peas!

[@maisonirmgardhouseofirmgar5721]

So excited that you’re making “simple”millinery flowers that don’t require expensive tools and turn out quite lovely. After many years of longing, I finally bought a heated silk flower making kit with different attachments. Even though this particular video is tool-free, I’d love to see you demo antique/vintage heated flower-making tools on natural fiber fabrics in the future. It makes me happy that you’re using natural fibers and not synthetics. Due to the “historical” nature of my own work, this is very compatible with the 19th century look I need to achieve.

[@ByIlonaMillinery]

I have a few videos on using flower tools, here is one of them: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jKKopZKNnd-Fq8U

[@lniebla]

These are all so beautiful! Thanks for the video ❤

[@raghadyassin7492]

That was the most informative video and the prettiest as well thank you 💜

[@ByIlonaMillinery]

Thank you! More videos coming soon 😊

[@irenedavo3768]

Beautiful

[@irenedavo3768]

Enjoyed video!

[@charlottebeseke5596]

Interesting!

[@KC-nb3st]

Thanks Ilona. That was a very informative tutorial.

[@angelescantalapiedra238]

Many thanks Ilona! Excellent!

[@ByIlonaMillinery]

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it 😊

[@lindajensen2434]

Thank you for making it fun and easy

[@ByIlonaMillinery]

You are so welcome! I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[@aimeewilson3874]

Thanks for this video. I adore your nails !!!

[@ubantu8987]

I m literally crying. I tried hard to look for organza flower 🌸 tutorial after looking at dior flowers designs and i didnt got your video. I came here through your video on organza and organdy. Paul coelho was right. When u really hv desire of smthing, the whole universe will conspire so that u have that thing, thank u for making this tutorial in most beautiful way

[@ByIlonaMillinery]

Hello, I am so glad you've found what you were looking for ❤️ I hope you enjoy making the flowers, and be sure to share your results with me on instagram -> @byilonamillinery 😊

[@karinjatta]

Great Video! Thank you

[@annlidslot8212]

Hi, another one for the M.A. Yours, Ann

[@gerrisavage8432]

Thanks!

[@ByIlonaMillinery]

Hello Gerri! Thank you so much for your support! ❤️

[@annlidslot8212]

Thank you. Yours, Ann

[@Houseofhatsnbridal]

I love your work ma'am . Just came across it yesterday need more coaching

[@ByIlonaMillinery]

Hello Oge! It's wonderful to have you here 😊 Make sure you are subscribed 🔔 so that you don't miss my new videos - a new one comes out every Sunday 🎉

[@canikostar99]

These are very sweet. Do you have a guide to small flowers like forget me nots and buttercups or possibly more horn shaped flowers like azaleas or trumpet flowers?

[@ByIlonaMillinery]

Hello, for smaller flowers and trumpet flowers you will need some flower tools, here are some videos on the types of flowers you asked about: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b5mmoGRnj9CJY5I kzbin.info/www/bejne/jKKopZKNnd-Fq8U

[@diannenaworensky6698]

We can't even get that Hombre' ribbon here in the USA at least from what I've seen

[@ByIlonaMillinery]

Oh no! I think the one I use is manufactured in France. You may be able to find vintage ombre wired ribbon in the USA on Etsy?

[@jennifergeorgia5445]

Let's hear it for maths! I had never thought about the Fibonacci sequence in flowers - that's fascinating!

[@ByIlonaMillinery]

Yes! Maths is rather fabulous and manages to weave its way into millinery in fascinating ways 😊

[@jennifergeorgia5445]

@@ByIlonaMillinery Interesting you should say "weave" -- In her book "The Fabric of Civilization", Virginia Postrel posits that some mathematical principles such as division were first worked out by weavers figuring out how to center a design on a woven piece of cloth! (I always get cross when people assume women should be bad at maths -- I think it's in our blood.)

[@ByIlonaMillinery]

That sounds like an amazing book! I shall add it to me to read list! I get quite cross at the same thing, although I myself am not the most amazing with actual numbers - but once I get rid of numbers and turn them into letters and algebra I feel quite comfortable.

[@bernicempey]

Can I use this technique on Sinamay?

[@ByIlonaMillinery]

Hi Bernice, I'll be honest and say I have no idea! I'm guessing the technique that you could try is the rolled edges, but I can imaging that that would be very painful on the fingers. Let me know if you try it and if it works!