How to make Lotus Flower - Handcraft Ronghua Tutorial
Lotus Flower
Materials and Tools: Velvet strips, silk thread, Hunan embroidery thread, stamens, hairpin, ruler, scissors, tweezers, clamping board, setting water, bristle brush, lighter.
The lotus flower has a noble character and is regarded by ancient Chinese people as a symbol of purity and integrity. Zhou Dunyi's famous essay "Ode to the Lotus" praises it for being unstained by mud and exuding a pure and elegant fragrance. (The techniques and methods for wrapping the hairpin rod will be explained in detail in Chapter 6.)
Steps：
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1. Prepare 12 velvet strips, each 7 cm long, in pink, light pink, and green gradient colors.
2. Sharpen both ends.
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3. Fold each strip in half with tweezers and twist the brass wires at both ends together.
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4. Use the clamping board to flatten the folded velvet strips from bottom to top.
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5. After spraying with setting water, clamp them again with the clamping board.
6. Trim the petals as shown in the picture.
7. Take a goose-yellow silk thread (Hunan embroidery thread).
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8. Fold it in half twice.
9. After cutting the top open, brush it with the bristle brush.
10. Take 10-12 stamens with yellow heads, fold them in half with the goose-yellow silk thread inside and the stamens outside, and tie them with green silk thread.
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11. Assemble the first layer of 5 petals.
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12. Assemble the second layer of 7 petals.
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13. Wrap a section of the flower stem at the base of the flower with silk thread.
14. Use tweezers to twist the flower stem to create a certain angle between the flower and the stem.
15. Attach the flower stem to the hairpin with silk thread.
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16. Always keep the silk thread tight.
17. Knot and use a lighter to seal the end.
18. Adjust the flower shape with tweezers.
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19. Finished.
