Galelina Flowers

In this workshop students will learn a famous Japanese flower making technique, Somebana. 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. There will be only 2 more classes, one in Melbourne on 8th July and the last one is in the USA, at Millinery Meet Up 2018. This means you will be one of the few knowing the technique to give you an edge.

What will you  learn?

Suitable for: all levels, no previous experience required

 

 Highly recommended:

Soldering iron (30-40 W)

       pencil;

       pen;

       scissors to cut silk;

       several (2-3)  soft flat  medium  paint brushes;

piece of thin  cotton material (like a hanker chef)  (30cm min);

3 pieces of  cotton material bed sheet thickness. (30cm min);

1 or 2 pieces of foam-rubber for making silk flowers any thickness that you have (15 cm min);

       toothbrush;

       PVA glue (from hardware store);

       bath towel;

small towel;

       20-30 sheets of white paper;

florist wire (N26-32);

piece of thin stiff plastic (15cm by 10 cm min). For example, a plastic folder;

tweezers;

the correct screwdriver for your soldering iron to change your tools;

toothpicks

plate to put hot tools on;

several (3-5)  clear or white jars or plastic cups  to mix dyes.

Optional but recommended

tweezers with rounded ends;

flower making millinery tools for soldering iron;

florist  wire cutters;

flowers stamens;

long nosed pliers;

thin skewer

 

Materials:

 

The Tutor will prepare for the class pre-cut kits of stiffened silk for flower-making in Japanese technique.  The KIT will cost $20, the price includes the dyes that students will apply  and other Japanese materials that the students need for making a silk flower in Japanese Somebana technique.

You  can book here

The students can buy the set of brass flower-making tools from the Tutor and PVA stiffener here

The price of set ranges  between $140-230 depend on number of irons in the set.

 

The price of PVA stiffener is $10 per 100g. bag of PVA stiffener powder.  From this amount  you can make 1.5 L  stiffener.