All about jute flowers

Jute is often used to create Scandinavian-style decor items, as well as when decorating interiors in country, as well as in ethnic directions - it is an excellent breathable material of plant origin, it is distinguished by absolute environmental friendliness, and it also has an affordable cost. Today, jute thread or rope can be used to create many stylish and original floral decors that will bring interesting ornaments to your home, and most of them can be easily made by yourself. In our review, we will give a master class for making simple flowers from jute and burlap.

Surely many of us have seen coarse brown coils of rope in hardware stores - this is jute twine. It is of plant origin, it is obtained from an annual shrub that grows in countries with a humid climate (China, Nepal, India, Bangladesh, as well as Kazakhstan and some African regions). In natural conditions, it lives in water, for growth it requires a large area and a tropical climate.

A wide variety of products are made from jute fiber, it is in demand on the market due to its spectacular appearance, affordability and ease of use.... For economic purposes, jute twine is used for tying plants, as well as for wrapping gifts. This is a completely environmentally friendly and safe material, at high humidity it does not become moldy, does not fade under the rays of the sun, and does not emit toxic substances when burned.

Jute twine - a rather tough material based on coarse pile, so you have to make an effort when making flowers from it. But the products at the exit are dense and very hard. When working with jute, it is important to keep in mind that in the process of work this fiber crumbles and its particles float in the air, so it will be difficult for craftswomen who are prone to allergic diseases to work with it - it is better for them to wear a protective mask. In addition, the material rubs against the skin of the hands.

When making flowers and other decorative items, jute is often combined with burlap, cotton fabric, as well as lace, crystals, seashells and leather. Very often, twine is combined with a colored contrasting thread - thanks to this, the ornaments during decoration differ from each other, but the general style of the craft is preserved. Chamomiles, chrysanthemums and asters are made from jute - all of them can become a real interior decoration, as well as an original gift for March 8, a birthday or a professional holiday.

In order to make jute flowers, you need to prepare the following materials and tools:

• jute of several shades;
• superglue or glue gun;
• sharp scissors;
• pins;
• simple pencil;
• regular stationery file;
• a compass or any other product with a round base;
• needle;
• ruler.

Choosing jute, whenever possible try to give preference to processed material - it is more plastic, while it hardly crumbles.

For novice craftswomen who are taking their first steps in making jute flowers, it is best to start by creating daisies. The work includes a few simple steps.

1. A circle of the required diameter is drawn from thick cardboard using a compass - it depends on the size of the chamomile you plan to make. The workpiece is cut with scissors.
2. The circle is drawn like a snowflake - here you need to draw from 6 to 8 diameters.
3. Safety pins are inserted along the circumference of the workpiece in the places where the diameters exit.
4. At the intersection of the diameters, the tip of the jute thread is glued with a hot gun.
5. After that, each pin is wrapped with thread. All loops are formed alternately so that each pin is wrapped 2-3 times.
6. At the end of the winding, the thread is cut, leaving a tip 30-35 cm long. After that, the end of the thread is threaded into a needle with a large eye, and the middle of the resulting flower is stitched with the help of loops. In this case, the beams should be captured in equal numbers and the needle should be pulled through the middle of the resulting ring. When everything is ready, all that remains is to tighten the knot.
7. Using a glue gun, the threads are fixed to the middle - this will make the structure stable.

Please note that all work must be carried out on a clerical file, otherwise you risk staining the surface. If you wish, you can additionally decorate the middle of the product - for this, several coffee beans are laid out in the center and partially sprinkled with cereals. You can use other types of sprinkles, the main thing is that the material is completely natural.

Flowers made of twine and burlap are very stylish. These materials complement each other well and are "polished" with lace. If you have some skills in working with fabric and jute twine, it will be quite easy to complete them.

1. Using a compass made of cardboard, a circle of small diameter is formed - this detail will become the basis for the future flower, it will allow the buds to keep their shape and not deform in the process of further work.
2. A circle is cut out of white cotton, the diameter of which will be quite large - a base skirt for the bud is made of it. The part is fixed with a glue gun to the center of the cardboard blank.
3. Then, two strips of the same length and width are cut out of the burlap so that the width of each element is 2-3.5 cm.Using a needle, some fibers should be pulled out so that the strip visually resembles a lattice.
4. After that, the end of one strip is fixed in the middle of the cotton blank - thus, a kind of loop is obtained, it is folded in half and once again fixed to the center of the cotton circle.
5. The same actions are repeated with the second strip, but this element should be glued perpendicular to the first. When doing this, it is very important to ensure that the product does not warp.
6. The twine is cut into strips in a total of 10 pieces. They are glued in the same way as burlap, dividing the corners between the individual elements, like a bisector. As a result, the "rays" should form a kind of snowflake.
7. A strip of such a width is cut out of white lace so that it can completely overlap the cotton and other tiers of the flower arrangement. A strip is sewn along the length line with basting stitches and pulled together, forming a skirt.
8. The lace skirt is sewn to the cotton base so as not to overlap the twine and burlap loops.
9. A small rose is made separately from burlap and twine - the scheme of work remains the same.
10. The rosette is glued to the middle of the base or to a cotton base.
11. With a sharp needle from a white cotton circle, several fibers are removed around the circumference, forming a short fringe

In recent years, jute has become in demand among craftswomen and needlewomen for creating original decorative compositions. The peak in popularity of the material coincided with a growing interest in Scandinavian style in room decoration and in the philosophy of hygge. However, with the help of jute and burlap, you can create beautiful crafts in vintage and ethnic styles.

Jute can be woven miniature crochet flowers, but you can do it yourself volumetric floristic compositions.

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There are a lot of ideas for using jute in decorating a room and making original gifts, and even a novice craftswoman can cope with the work. The main thing is to find simple patterns and patterns, and then step by step follow all the recommendations of experienced needlewomen.

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