How to Make a Pine Branch Camellia Chanhua Tuan Fan - Handcraft Chanhua Tutorial
The pine branch is an important decorative element in this Chanhua. The pine branches in this Chanhua include blue and white pine branches. By layering and combining them, we can create different effects. This section will introduce the method for making a single pine branch.
A. Materials and Tools
- - Awl
- - Blue, white, and green silk threads
- - Pliers
- - 30-gauge floral wire
- - 502 glue
B. Making the Pine Branch
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1. Take a blue silk thread, split it, and fold it in half. Hold a 20cm long wire in your left hand and the silk thread in your right hand. Wrap the thread around the wire from left to right for about 1cm, then wrap from right to left.
2. After wrapping a certain distance, adjust your wrapping technique. Rotate the wire slowly with your right hand, while lightly holding the wire and silk thread with your left hand, allowing the silk thread to wrap evenly around the wire until the entire wire is covered.
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3. Pierce two holes at the top of the awl, with an inner distance of 5mm and an outer distance of 7mm. Insert two wires into the holes and fix them with 502 glue.
4. Hook one end of the wrapped wire onto the wire extending from the awl to form the first bend. Rotate the awl clockwise to create the second bend.
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5. Move the second bend to the other wire, freeing the first bend from the wire on the awl. Rotate the awl counterclockwise to form the third bend.
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6. Transfer the third bend to the other wire on the awl, freeing both the first and second bends. Rotate the awl clockwise to form the fourth bend.
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7. Repeat steps 4-6 to complete the bends along the entire wire. Use pliers to tighten the bends.
8. Take a green silk thread and wrap it around one end of the bent wire to secure it.
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9. Roll the wire from one end to the other, fixing it at the base of the bends with green silk thread.
10. After rolling, slightly open the top of the wire, wrap it a few times with green silk thread from top to bottom to secure it, completing a blue pine branch.
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11. Following these steps, make 21 blue pine branches, then switch to white silk thread and make 20 white pine branches.
6.4.2 Making the Camellia
The camellia is not only an important decorative element in this Chanhua but also adds a highlight to the piece, enhancing the primarily cool-toned work. This section will introduce the method for making the camellia.
A. Materials and Tools
- - White card paper
- - Carbon pen
- - Scissors
- - Red and yellow silk threads
- - Finished gypsum peony stamens
- - 30-gauge floral wire
- - Alcohol glue
- - Chopsticks
B. Making the Camellia
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1. Draw the camellia petal pattern on the white card paper with a carbon pen. Cut out the petal along the lines to get crescent-shaped, symmetrical white card paper petals. Wrap the petals with wire and red silk thread, ensuring the position of the card paper is about 1cm from the end of the wire.
2. Control the wrapping to ensure that when the silk thread reaches the middle, it is perpendicular to the lower edge of the petal, leaving enough space for the second half of the wrapping. To facilitate wrapping, bend the already wrapped part of the petal.
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3. After wrapping, gather the ends of the petal and use chopsticks to bend the middle of the petal, then secure both ends.
4. Repeat these steps to make 5 camellia petals and arrange them in a spiral.
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5. Take a cluster of finished gypsum peony stamens and secure them with yellow silk thread, then cut off the excess.
6. Apply alcohol glue to the cut end of the stamens and fix them in the center of the camellia. Repeat the above steps to make two more camellias.
6.4.3 Overall Assembly
After making each component, they need to be assembled together. This section will introduce the method for making the pine tree trunk and assembling the decorative parts.
A. Materials and Tools
- - 1mm diameter wire
- - 30-gauge floral wire
- - Green silk thread
- - Cotton strips
- - Green elastic thread
B. Assembling the Components
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1. Combine two 1mm diameter wires and bend them into an inverted "L" shape. Take another two 1mm diameter wires and make a larger inverted "L" shape. Fix both with 30-gauge floral wire and assemble them together.
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2. Assemble the previously made pine branches by layering them randomly. Combine 4 pine branches into a group in a "left 3, right 1" arrangement.
3. Combine 6 pine branches into a group in a "left 4, right 2" arrangement.
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4. Combine 14 pine branches into a group in a "left 10, right 4" arrangement.
5. Combine 5 pine branches into a group by layering them.
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6. Secure 3 pine branches at the top of the assembled wire with 30-gauge floral wire.
7. Add a group of "left 4, right 2" pine branches below, ensuring they are aligned with the top 3 pine branches, and fix them with 30-gauge floral wire.
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8. Add a single pine branch at the front, leaving a small gap below, and add a group of "left 3, right 1" pine branches.
9. Add a single pine branch at the front, and after a small gap, add a group of "left 10, right 5" pine branches.
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10. After a gap, add a group of 5 pine branches on one side of the wire, ensuring that these 5 branches are on the same side as the 10 branches above, giving the pine tree a "one side more, the other side less" appearance.
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11. Wrap the wire tightly with cotton strips.
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12. Wrap the wire with green elastic thread to cover the cotton strips and adjust the overall shape.
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13. Fold the longest section of the trunk back on itself and add the camellia, fixing it with green elastic thread.
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14. Wrap the wire with green silk thread to cover the green elastic thread, completing the outer fixation.
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