[Saranya Vijaykumar]

For a full bouquet, you will need at least 12 paper flowers, depending on the size of your blooms and their fullness.

Materials Needed:

crepe paper

scissors

green floral wire

green floral tape

wired floral leaves (from craft stores)

ribbon

wire cutters

Few steps to make flower bouquet are as follows:

Step 1.Cut Petals

Cut several teardrop (petal) shapes out of the crepe paper. The easiest and quickest way is to cut straight from the roll.

Step 2. Prepare Wire

Cut a small square of crepe paper and fold in half to get a triangle. Fold the triangle around a floral wire tip. Secure the paper to the floral wire with double-sided tape, and cover the entire wire in it.

Step 3. Add Petals and Create More Flowers

Keep adding crepe-paper petals to the bud and secure with floral tape at the base each time. Repeat as many times as you wish to vary the fullness of the rose. Continue making paper flowers with steps 1-3 until your desired number of blooms is achieved.

Step 4. Form Bouquet

Twist the wired leaves onto each flower stem. Gather stems into a bouquet and cover with floral tape. Trim floral wire ends with the help of a wire cutter.

Here’s a video on how to make a flower bouquet using easy steps:

https://youtu.be/AUrh6WeOhnA

[Saranya Vijaykumar]

Fabric crafts are manually produced objects meant to serve a particular purpose of human needs .Fabric crafts are the craft work done with fabric material. It is also known as textile production. Fabric crafts are common in Abeokuta , Adinkra in Ghana. It is one of crafts that can be done by printing , weaving , tie and dyeing , batik, and embroidery . This craft encompasses all the elements of dressing the human body : jewelry, hats , leather work and garments . it will naturally intersect with other crafts . The art of textile crafts has been recognition by the Arabs. The silk textile are decorated with beautiful miniature drawings . These crafts industry is growing very rapidly.

Examples of fabric crafts are as follows

Knitted art

knitting is a method for production of textile fabric by interlacing yarn loops with same or other yarn loops .Knitting can be done by hand or by a machine.

Crocheted art

Crochet is a fiber art done with one hook and one strand of yarn. It is easy, very fun, and full of possibilities.

The main difference between crochet and knitting is that crochet has only one live stitch at all times – the stitch that lives on your hook.

Crochet stitches have different heights, and can be increased, decreased, and combined almost exactly like stitches in knitting.

Woven art

Weaving is the textile art in which two distinct sets of yarns or threads – called the warp and weft – are interlaced with each other at right angles to form a fabric or cloth.

The warp threads run length-ways on the piece of cloth, while the weft runs horizontally. Cloth is woven on a loom, a device for holding the warp threads in place while the weft threads are woven through them, back and forth. Weft is an old English word meaning “that which is woven”. Woven cloth can be plain (in one color or a simple pattern), or it can be woven in decorative or artistic designs

Hooked rugs

Rug hooking is both an art and a craft where rugs are made by pulling loops of yarn or fabric through a stiff woven base such as burlap, linen, or rug warp. The loops are pulled through the backing material by using a crochet-type hook mounted in a handle (usually wood) for leverage. In contrast latch-hooking uses a hinged hook to form a knotted pile from short, pre-cut pieces of yarn.

Laces

Traditionally, lace usually consisted of silk or linen threads, and some textile artisans even made this fabric using gold or silver thread. In contemporary times, however, cotton has become the most popular fabric for lace production, and some manufacturers use synthetic fibers like polyester or rayon to make lace.

Ropes

Rope may be constructed of any long, stringy, fibrous material, but generally is constructed of certain natural or synthetic fibres. Synthetic fibre ropes are significantly stronger than their natural fibre counterparts, they have a higher tensile strength, they are more resistant to rotting than ropes created from natural fibres, and they can be made to float on water. But synthetic ropes also possess certain disadvantages, including slipperiness, and some can be damaged more easily by UV light.

Common natural fibres for rope are Manila hemp, hemp, linen, cotton, coir, jute, straw, and sisal. Synthetic fibres in use for rope-making include polypropylene, nylon, polyesters (e.g. PET, LCP, Vectran)