Baubles are multi-colored wovenbracelet. Surely you also had this cute little thing in your school years. What didn’t they weave them from in childhood: beads, ribbons, laces, rubber bands, threads, buttons. In every yard there was some girl who was great at weaving baubles. The process of weaving this decoration can be called real handicraft. And yet, how to weave baubles from ribbons? A bauble is a bracelet that is woven by hand from almost any material that can be given the desired shape. Then it is put on the hand as a decoration. Do you know what baubles are called in English? Friendship bracelet. It’s nice to weave a bauble for a sweet girlfriend, putting your love and respect into it. The history of the origin of baubles is interesting. It turns out that this decoration was invented by the Indians many centuries ago. For them, it was of a cult nature and was created in the tone of the traditions of a certain tribe. The second birth of baubles is due to hippies, or, as they called themselves, "flower children", who made such bracelets a kind of talismans. With the help of this decoration, they expressed their feelings and aspirations. Woven from a variety of materials, the decorations symbolized friendship and love, brotherhood and freedom. Baubles were given to loved ones and worn instead of wedding rings. As in ancient Indian culture, the color of the bauble had its own meaning for hippies: weaving white with red hinted at freedom in love, and multi-colored ribbons symbolized a community of people of different social status and age. The fashion for baubles has been permanently returning in recent years, and each new generation rediscovers these cute decorations, the manufacture of which is not at all difficult. How to weave baubles from ribbons with patterns? Everything is very simple. It is easy to do, following the patterns or instructions. Teach your daughter to weave these decorations. Perhaps your child will not go into the details of the history of the origin of baubles. But without a doubt, children weave baubles with great pleasure for themselves and their friends. Your imagination is the main guarantee of success in creating a woven bracelet, if you add to it the desire to work hard. If all of the above is not alien to you, the next stage of the process will be the purchase of ribbons. Perhaps, your decoration will need a clasp, but this is not necessary: ​​everything depends on the model you choose. Let's start, perhaps, with the easiest way to weave a bauble.

Fenichka from two tapes

• Take two satin ribbons of different colors about one meter in length. Lay them one on top of the other so that the two sides of the ribbon are on the top.
• Tie a knot, not quite tight, at a distance of ten centimeters from the end of the ribbons. These ends will go to the eyeballs.
• Fasten the knot so that the bracelet is indirection from oneself. For a fixed position of a braided baubles, use a pin or a needle. You can also stick to the table beginning of the baubles with the help of an adhesive tape for the time of work.
• Pinch with two fingers of the right hand, the forefingerand a large, right ribbon, forming a loop. Accordingly, the left tape is clamped with two fingers of the left hand, also forming a loop. Now one loop to the other (no matter left or right, or vice versa). Tighten the ribbons.

Note: the first steps are the hardest, then everything is easy.

• Form a new loop on the one of the belts where the loop has collapsed.
• Thread the new loop into the one that remains. Tighten.
• Under this scheme, continue until the baubles are ready.
• At the end of the braided bracelet gently tie the knot.

Spit a spiral bauble

For the next method of weaving a bauble, you will again need two ribbons 1 m long. For this braided bracelet, we took a light and a black ribbon.

• Unbend the ends of both bands by 15 cm and fold them onto the rest of the ribbons.
• The angle between the two belts to each other should be slightly less than 90 degrees.
• Fold the dark ribbon under a light ribbon in the form of a knot.
• Wrap the dark ribbon to the full circle so that the tip of this ribbon protrudes.
• Now, pass the small, dark through a large light loop.
• Then pull the dark loop over the short tip until a loose knot appears.
• Make a new loop, pass through the remainder of the loop its remainder.
• Finally, tighten the end of one loop, while simultaneously fixing the other loop. Do not apply excessive force, and then the bauble will turn out not very beautiful.
• After these steps, you can see the square that came out of the ribbons. Try not to bend the edges of the bands during the weaving. In the weave, pulling the eyelets, adjust the edges.
• Repeat all the described steps until the baubles are the right length.

Flattering round fery

The round bauble is woven using “Chineseknots" (lotus knots). It will take you about an hour to weave one bracelet. To keep the product from losing its original shape, tie it tightly.

• Prepare two ribbons of different colors about 2.5 meters in length. Place the tapes crosswise, securing them to the middle of the pin.
• In our example we took silver and black colors. First, place the upper end of the black ribbon, located vertically, on the left horizontal side of the silver ribbon.

• Guide the left end of the light ribbon behind both halves of the black ribbon pointing down.
• Point the right half of the dark tape upwards.
• To finally form a knot, the upper part of the silver ribbon must be placed under the upper half of the black.
• Feel free to tighten the knot.
• Perhaps it will be a little hard to pull together. Then straighten the ribbon, then tighten it more tightly.
• All further actions repeat the described order of the initial steps. As a result, you should get a cord.
• Place half of the string under the tape from the other end of the cord. Having done this, putting on a ready-made bauble will be very easy.

Square square of four ribbons

This method of weaving a bauble involvesmore ribbon consumption than in the previous patterns. You will need four ribbons, each two or more meters long. (By the way, four ribbons can be replaced by two, and the bracelet can be braided in the above-described way). Start weaving a square decoration. You do not need to think about the location of the front and back sides of the ribbon, with this method of weaving they are visible equally. First, straighten the ribbons in all directions. Then weave in the following sequence. We have ribbons of four different colors. Choose them so that the colors match each other. Then the finished product will look very beautiful.

• The first ribbon is bent from top to bottom, making a loop.
• Cover it with a second tape, bending it from right to left.
• Close the second ribbon, bending the third up from the bottom.
• Finally, bend left to right the last fourth tape, passing it into the loop from the first tape.
• Pull carefully all the ribbons, gradually forming a square. Straighten all the ribbons. There is no need to tighten the ribbons very much, the bracelet will come out uneven.
• Step by step, repeat all five steps until the baubles reach your desired length.

A bauble braided in this way is obtainedquite voluminous. Such a ribbon bauble is attractive because it is worn not only in its original form, but also in the form of a twisted spiral. To do this, carefully, without deforming the product, twist it slightly. You need to handle the square bracelet carefully. If you stretch the bauble too much, it will not return to its original form. Craftsmen who have been weaving baubles for a long time have a secret about how to keep the shape of such a square bracelet for a long time: just insert a coarse thread into the bauble at the beginning of the work.

Tips for Beginners

• Use common sense when choosing colorbaubles, because this decoration is a cult object that has absorbed a certain culture and thought. Before making decorations, it would not be superfluous to read about the meaning that colors carry in the spectrum of hippie culture. New information will not only expand your knowledge, but also help to avoid ridicule from "those in the know".
• When making a baubles, do not tighten the hingesToo much. Leave them slightly free to make the product look symmetrical, and the pattern turned out to be even and neat. In doing so, try to ensure that the ribbons are the same length. Perhaps the first time you have something can not work. Do not let this upset you, because you can always create a new bauble. But it is better to learn how to properly weave the product from the very beginning, than after the remodel and retrain.
• So that the tapes from your hands do not slip andthe eyelets did not open, you can fasten them with a pin or a needle. Over time, gaining experience, you will do everything on weight. But for a start, it's better to secure yourself by fixing the end of the eyelet. You can tie a finished product to an ordinary knot, leaving the ends of ribbons hanging, which will give your fenechke a playful and tempting look. But this is optional, because those are good baubles, that the two are not the same among them.

Now you know a lot. Buy some colorful satin ribbons at your local store, and in just a couple of hours you will have a new decoration in the form of a cute bauble.

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