How to make Velet Flowers？The art skills Traveling 1000years ago

💐🩷😘🎊💜 —————————————————————— Velvet flower, homophonic with "Ronghua", also known as palace flower or joyful flower. It is a traditional Chinese decorative artwork made from silk as raw material. According to legend, velvet flowers originated as tribute to the Tang Dynasty's imperial court and have a history of over 1000 years. Its production requires more than ten processes such as combing, hooking, sharpening, and spreading flowers. The shape covers auspicious themes and birds and animals, and is characterized by bright colors and exquisite beauty. During the Tang Dynasty, it was listed as a tribute to the imperial court. During the Song Dynasty, Yangzhou became the center of velvet flower production, and during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, a craft flower system centered around velvet flowers was formed. ____________________________ The materials for making velvet flowers mainly include silk, Huang Tongsi (the palace uses silver to draw silk), lead silk, and the auxiliary materials include dye, rapeseed, rosin oil, wrinkled color paper, leather paper, white latex (traditional glutinous rice glue), material beads (various colors), crystal beads, charcoal, etc. The tools for making flannelette mainly include scissors, tweezers, pliers, brushes and wooden washboards. The auxiliary tools include flannelette boiling appliances, air drying appliances, copper wire burning appliances, etc. Among them, scissors are used for hooking and sharpening, and the brush is generally made of bristle. The production process of velvet flowers is divided into 9 processes, including silk refining, dyeing, drying, slitting, cashmere pressing, sharpening, flower spreading, flower sticking and packaging. 1. silk refining: after loosening the whole silk, soak it in cold water for a day, and then cook it with alkaline water. The time should not be too long to prevent it from being overcooked. The cooked silk is called "Cashmere", which has the characteristics of softness, firmness and uneasiness to fluff. The brass wire should be burnt with charcoal to anneal and soften. 2. dyeing: dye according to the color needs of the velvet products to be made, and the yarn generally has dozens of colors. 3. drying: put the dyed velvet on the bamboo pole to dry in the sun. During this period, it must be often flipped and kept straight. 4. tick: also known as "cutting", according to the needs of product production, the cashmere of various colors is divided into a velvet belt according to a certain length and width, which is arranged evenly and fixed on a certain utensil, and then the bristle brush is used to brush flat and evenly one by one. Take a piece of brass wire and fold it in half, one end is twisted into a few spiral branches to clamp the evenly arranged velvet belt from the front, and the other end is combined and twisted into a spiral shape. According to the required specifications, use scissors to cut the mature velvet, twist and twist both hands in the opposite direction at the same time, and then use a wooden washboard to further work into a uniform and round velvet strip. This process is commonly known as "flannelette rolling" by velvet artists. Velvet strip is the main material for making velvet flowers, and it is also the basic part in the production process. 5. ironing: according to the needs, iron a round fluffy strip of Sichuan iron or iron into a flat shape, which is used to make flower leaves, bird wings, tails, feathers and other parts. 6. sharpening: according to the different needs of velvet products, use scissors to cut the round velvet strip, so that the cylindrical velvet strip becomes obtuse angle, acute angle, semicircle, sphere, ellipse and other suitable shapes. 7. flower spreading: use tweezers to shape and combine the velvet strips with different colors and specifications to make three-dimensional birds, animals, fish, insects and flowers. 8. stick flower: stick the independent velvet strip and other accessories, such as the mouth, crown, eyes, tail, legs and feet of the velvet bird, with the auxiliary materials such as lead wire, colored leather paper, material beads, crystal beads and rapeseed, and use white milk to stick on the corresponding parts to make the required products. 9. packaging: according to the creative design of the product, accessories such as glass frame, bamboo basket, bird's nest and flower pot can be assembled. #diycrafts #handmadewithlove #ruralbeauty #chineseculture #handmadecraft #rurallife #ruralliving #villagelife #asiandrama #chinesedrama #diy #handmadecraft #handmade #ruralbeauty #rurallife #villagelife #villagelifestyle #lifestyle #jewelrydesign #jewelrymaking #naturalbeauty #nature #beauty #silk #ancienthistory #ancient #ancientcivilizations #traditional #traditionalart #artwork #asianhandmade #asiandrama #chinesegirl #china