

I’m making a few flowers to decorate a felt headpiece, I’m using sinamay because I thought it’d be interesting to use two very contrasting materials. Each individual petal is made out of a square piece of sinamay that is curved (almost folded) diagonaly, then the two tips left are drawn under (without being folded or twisted) the first tip. Easier said than done!! The smaller the square the harder it gets. For the center I’m just going to use some beads (the one in the photo is a lovely murano glass bead).
Je fabrique quelques fleurs pour décorer une coiffe en feutre, j’utilise du sisal parce que je pensais que ça serait intéressant d’utiliser deux matériaux aussi contrastés. Chaque pétal est fait d’un carré de sisal qui est courbé (presque plié) en deux diagonalement, puis les deux coins restants viennent se placer (sans les plier) sous le premier coin. Plus facile à dire qu’à faire!! Plus le carré est petit, plus ça devient compliqué. Pour le centre je vais jsute utiliser des perles (celle sur la photo est une superbe perle en verre de murano).
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Yolindi
28|Dec|2009 1Goodday
I went for the course of making sinamay hats – and was just wondering if you can maybe give me a site where i can get step by step information regarding decorations for the sinamay. I just want my hats to be different from all the others, im refering to the decorations and so on. Im in South Africa
o and i like your flower very cute
Lucy
28|Dec|2009 2Hello there! Unfortunately, I don’t really know any websites with instructions for making sinamay decorations. I’m so sorry! My best advice is to perhaps have a look at photos of various sinamay decorations and try and reproduce the shapes/forms that appeal to you. Basic intructions for using sinamy can be found in hat making books (though they can be quite hard to find), there is a book called ‘Créér ses chapeaux, bibis et bijoux de tete’ by a milliner by Gaela that has information about sinamay. I do not know if this book has been edited in english though! I’m sure by experimenting and pratise you’ll be able to find your own unique designs! Best of luck!
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