By EasyHow
How to make a beautiful ribbon bow
A gift, like a stranger, meet on clothes, and what is the best decorate a goodie box? Of course, the holiday package with a big bow! You can, of course, to buy it, but made by hand, it will delight not only the recipient, but to yourself. Long practice, you can learn to make a great variety of bows. Very nice on a gift box will look like Terry bow, another name, bow-ball. It is also suitable for romantic gifts. Its size should not be larger than the surface on which you put it.
You will need
- A strip of durable material which holds its shape well, can be, in particular, to use strips of dense fabric. For a bow with a diameter of 10-12 cm of the desired belt length of about 3 m to tie a bow, to prepare a thin ribbon of the same material.
Instruction
To start take out the tape roll by winding it, for example, into the hands of 7-12 times. The number of turns depends on the density of the tape: the better it holds its shape, the less they can be.
Then, gently flatten the coil. Cut out the corners and connect the tape so that the cut corners had at its centre. In this place, tie a roll of thin ribbon.
Finally, the most crucial point in turn pull the loop to the side, one after another, left and right, up and down, holding the ground in thin ribbons with your fingers. To gift bow can be attached to the same thin ribbon double-sided tape or glue.
Note
Be careful to draw the loop under the angle of 90 degrees: this is a little trick that allows us to give Bantu the form of a ball, and not make it flat.
Useful advice
Try and be creative: after all, the preparation of bows and decoration gifts can become a real hobby.