Basic Tsumami Kanzashi Frame Tutorial

This is one way to make a frame for a basic round fabric flower, as used in Tsumami Kanzashi.

You can find a text version of this same tutorial, and general construction tips, in the ThreadBanger forums at::

http://forum.threadbanger.com/showthread.php?t=641

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I'll also be re-vamping my original Tsumami Kanzashi tutorial and re-uploading soon. For those that have no idea what this tutorial is for, never fear! You can see the next video in the next few days. n...n

** Music is "Ding Dong" by Nellie McKay **

Category:

Howto & Style

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• Tsumami
• Kanzashi
• Frame
• Flower
• How-to
• How
• To
• Fabric
• Geisha
• Maiko
• Hair
• Ornament
• Decoration

[ginagag]

sorry, didn't know you made another video just for the base... :(

[meandrousart]

That's okay, pretty much nobody finds this video. I get a few messages a month asking me how to make the bases. Now that YouTube has annotation features, I should put a note on the other video to direct people but I've not remembered to do it yet.

Take care!

[kathiego233]

What size are the rounds? Hope you had a very Merry Christmas!

[meandrousart]

The size of the rounds are whatever you like them to be. <3 It will depend on the size of your flower. You don't want them to be larger than the flower, they're just a support frame and should disappear under the petals. All I can say is experiment, since there's no 'one size only' rule.

[sraew]

@meandrousart I know this reply is to an old post, but anyway in the japanese tsumami kanzashi book i'm using, it generally seems to be this: a round is 1/2cm smaller than the square for the petal, for example a 2cm square calls for a 1.5cm round, making approx a 2.3cm flower. the only exception I've noticed is that the 1cm petals squares go on a 0.7cm base. Also the base size may increase a bit to accomodate double-layered petals (2 layers of fabric for each petal) or multiple flower layers.

[meandrousart]

@sraew Wow, holy crap... numbers! XD Thanks! That's very useful.

[LazyFleece]

Your hand-made kanzashi flowers are very, very beautiful. I want to make some!

[patrikasLTL]

this was cute. my friend is SO crazy about all such stuff.

[kathiego233]

Thank you. It would be great if you could. I know sometime in your spare moments right? I think your videos are the best for kanzashi making.

[kathiego233]

I see. I will have to experiment then. Thank you again for this video and the other ones!

[meandrousart]

That'd be a really good one. <3 I'm still practicing, though. Something like that would be difficult and time consuming, so I'm not sure it's something I could do at this moment, but I'd love to do one, so I'll keep it in mind. Thank you!