Creating of silk dog rose in Japanese technique Zoom online class, 12/13 September.
Specially for my online ZOOM class I developed a silk wild(dog) ROSE in the Japanese technique. This design includes all the essential Japanese flower making techniques. You can use them to create your own beautiful flowers. The flowers made using this technique look much more realistic than flowers made with the traditional French technique.
This is a wonderful opportunity to learn this special technique.
Participants will go through all the stages of the process of creating flowers from the silk.
This will include preparation of materials, assembling and finishing techniques.
The class will take around 4 hours.
Class participation will be limited to max 12 people to ensure personal attention
Cost of the class is AU$ 75
To pay for the class please pay here
Learning outcomes:
Students will be guided through all the stages of the process of creating flowers from silk. This will include dying the silk, assembling and finishing techniques.
Students will learn how to work with a wide range of Japanese style flower making tools achieving some proficiency in the Japanese technique.
The students will make a beautiful realistic looking silk dog rose, suitable for use in millinery
Suitable for: all levels, no previous experience required
Course Structure
On securing your place, you will receive an email which includes confirmation, your Zoom invitation, and the pattern to cut out all the silk pieces ready for this class.
ET (US and Canada); 7pm-11pm 12 September
List of tools and supplies required:
1. Natural white 100% silk , stiffened and precut.
Watch this Video here and prepare the parts of the rose according to it. You need a piece of silk 30×30 cm for the petals, a piece 10×30 for the leaves and calyx and a piece of silk 10×30 for the lining. It is a good idea to use thicker silk for the leaves than for the petals and the lining.
If you live in Australia you can buy the kit here
Stiffener . You have to stiffen the silk before use it in flower making. Wash the silk in soapy water before applying the stiffener.
There are several different stiffening options available:
- I make silk flowers using the mixture of PVA (polyvinyl alcohol) stiffener and wood glue and it worked perfectly! More details and to buy it here
You can find how to make the PVA universal millinery stiffener from powder and my method of applying it to silk for flower making from the VIdeo Tutorials on my YouTube Channel which you can watch here
- One of the oldest and best known type of stiffener is gelatine. For 200 ml of cold water take 2 level teaspoons of granulated gelatine. Prepare the same way as I described for the PVA stiffener.
- White PVA glue (wood) can also be used for stiffening silk. Mix 200 ml of warm water with 2 tablespoons of good quality thick PVA glue, stir well , add a tablespoon of vodka or similar and give a final stir. Apply the stiffener to silk using the method above.
- Ready to use fabric stiffener.
2. Stapler
3. Dyes. The dyes could be different types, powdered or concentrated liquids.
These are some dyes, that could be used for painting silk at flower making.
https://www.dharmatrading.com/dyes/dupont-silk-dyes-french-silk-dyes.html?lnav=default.html
https://www.dharmatrading.com/dyes/jacquard-acid-dyes.html?lnav=dyes.html
https://www.dharmatrading.com/dyes/dharma-fiber-reactive-procion-dyes.html?lnav=dyes.html
https://www.jacquardproducts.com/silk-colors
https://www.landscapesdye.com.au/
https://www.georgeweil.com/brands/javana/silk-paints/javana-silk-paint-50ml
If you have the powdered dyes dissolve them before the class following the instruction.
We will need 2-3 shades of the colour for petals , yellow and green.
4. Brushes. The usual flat and soft painting brushes will work very well.
5. Several clear or white jars or bowls to dissolve the dyes.
6. Scissors
7. Wire cutters
8. Screwdriver
9. Glue. Making silk flowers in Japanese technique we use only wood glue. If you don’t have Japanese Hard PVA Japanese glue, that is specially designed for flower making, use Wood glue from the hardware shop. Try to buy the thickest wood glue as possible.
10. Florist wire, 30gauge for petals and 30-28 for leaves, white and green.
11. A soldering iron.
12. Piece of thin stiff plastic (15cm by 10 cm min). For example, a plastic folder;
13. Flowers stamens;
14. Long nosed pliers;
15. Thin skewer
16. Bath towel;
17. Small towel;
18. 20-30 sheets of white paper;
19. Foam, soft (to work with round balls) and hard or halfhard ( to work with Japanese irons and other knifes) . You have to cover them with clean cotton fabric, better white.
20. Flower making tools which you buy here From this big range of flower making tools we will use one of the Japanese irons, single knife and two round heads 2.5 cm. and 1.0 cm.
21. Professional tweezers for curling petals. They have round edges with sharp tips. Only with the tweezers with round edges, we will make nice round curves in our petals, not clear folds. You can buy it here. If you don’t have them, any small tweezers.
22. Toothbrush;
23. Iron
24. Makeup pads x2
25. Piece of thin cotton or silk material (like a handkerchief) (30cm min);
Cancellations:
Please check the course date and time prior to enrolling. I do not provide refunds for class cancellations, however I will give you a full credit for use to purchase my Tutorials or enrol in future classes.
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