How To Make A Ribbon For May 9, As Well As Kanzashi

2024 Author: Bailey Albertson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 12:53

Not just a decoration: we make a ribbon for May 9 with our own hands

The St. George ribbon has a long history, this symbol takes its origins from the soldiers' orders, which were awarded by Empress Catherine II, and later it entered the USSR award system. The ribbon is presented in bicolor orange and black, which means flame and smoke. Today the St. George ribbon is a symbol of victory over fascism and is used on Victory Day as a sign of memory and respect for the feat of the Soviet people. Often, black and orange cuts are massively distributed on the streets before the holiday, but you can make a solemn ribbon yourself, decorating at your own discretion.

How to make a ribbon for May 9 with your own hands

The complexity of the process of making a festive St. George ribbon depends on the scale that you want to embody in your product. It takes a minimum of effort to create a simple loop symbol:

1. It is necessary to prepare materials - a 20–25 cm cut of a satin or denser striped rep ribbon, hot glue and a gun for it, as well as a base for a brooch.

   

   Black and orange tape available at fabric stores by foot

2. The tape of the desired length must be wrapped with a loop, leaving tails about a quarter of the total length of the cut.

   

   A piece of tape must be folded into a loop

3. The loop needs to be fixed - you can do this with a drop of glue, or with a thread and a needle.
4. So that the tape cuts do not crumble, they must be carefully processed with a lighter or a match - melted a little.

5. It remains only to glue the brooch base on the back and the festive symbol is ready.

   

   On the back of the ribbon you need to attach the base for the brooch

Kanzashi ribbon

The finished loop from the St. George ribbon can be left in its pure form, or you can decorate it. The most commonly used flowers or petals made in the Japanese kanzashi technique from pieces of ribbon. They can be made in the same colors as the symbol of victory itself, or in any others - it all depends on personal preference and taste. To create a flower, you need to work on individual petals. For this you will need:

• satin or rep ribbon 5 or 2.5 cm wide (depending on the desired petal size), cut into squares;
• a candle or lighter to singe the edge;
• tweezers (you can do without it, but there is a risk of getting burned);
• scissors.

The simplest are sharp petals, which require:

1. Fold a square of tape in half diagonally.
2. Fold the resulting triangle two more times.
3. Cut off a thin edge, burn it with fire and, while the material is hot, squeeze to fix the layers. The petal is ready.
4. If necessary, you can make the petal not so high by cutting it off and singing it from below.

The creation of a sharp kanzashi petal takes place in several stages of folding a square piece of tape

You can also make round petals:

1. Fold the ribbon square in half.
2. At the resulting triangle, reduce the corners at the base to the apex.
3. Fold the rhombus into a triangle and secure the vertices of the small triangles with a lighter.
4. It remains to cut and singe the edge, and straighten the finished petal.

A round petal is a little more difficult to create than a sharp one, but after several attempts it will definitely turn out

From the obtained petals, you can create a variety of combinations: glue twigs with a hot gun, put petals of different colors and sizes into each other and collect flowers from them, decorate the centers with beads or rhinestones. The finished decoration will only have to be sewn or glued with a hot gun to the tape itself, and the unique symbol is ready.

When the decoration is ready, it remains to attach it to the ribbon.

Alternative options

If you did not manage to purchase a St. George ribbon for the meter or you want to do something unusual, then you can always use your other skills. So, you can create a ribbon:

• from paper. To do this, it will be enough to stick narrow strips of one color onto a wide strip from another and, by analogy with a fabric cut, form a loop;

• from threads. If you know how to knit, you can safely make a festive attribute knitted;

  

  St. George ribbon can be knitted from threads of a suitable color

• from beads. The symbol of memory can be woven on a beading machine with a canvas.

  

  A beautiful symbol of Victory Day can even be made of beads

A symbol of respect and memory of the feat of the Soviet people can be made with your own hands. To do this, it may be enough to purchase a piece of striped tape, or other skills, including in creating decor, may be useful.