Recommended guide for thoughtful gifts for the annual Chinese Valentine’s Day festival

Chinese Valentines Day is here, friends, are your gifts ready? ? In fact, the production editor feels that daily life is hurried and dull, and when the festival comes, we need some sense of ritual to respect and welcome it. "What is a sense of ritual?" the little prince asked the little fox in the fairy tale. The fox said: "It makes one day different from other days, and makes one moment different from other moments." This is also the meaning of holiday gifts. No matter when, flowers are the best carrier to enhance the sense of ritual and happiness.
So, here are some illustrated tutorials for origami flowers, I hope you like them!

Detailed production steps. Production materials: one square foot of unbleached vegetable tanned leather (thickness 1.0) (other colors are also available), hot melt glue + glue gun, water, alcohol dye (only unbleached vegetable tanned leather It can be colored, other colors can be done directly)

Made of 1.0 mm thick primary color vegetable tanned leather, dyed red with alcohol dye. If you only have high-thickness vegetable tanned leather on hand, you can also use it. The rose flower made in this way The flaps will be more fleshy~ but the number of layers will be reduced accordingly.

Make four petal paper shapes from small to large, and cut out 3-4 pieces of skin for each size

Dye the leather edge red, and then simply polish the leather edge with a sanding stick

Vegetable tanned leather has good plasticity when exposed to water. So here we wet the back of the leather with a sponge and roll it out into the shape of petals by hand. (Since the leather is always wet during the production process, the color will look darker than the finished product)

You can also use various strange gadgets: pen refills, pen holders, steel rulers, etc...

All petals are shaped

Front of petals

Side (the dark patches on the leather are water marks that have not yet evaporated)

The combination of petals ~ hot melt glue is used here to adhere

Glue the petals in layers according to their size.

Continue pasting and stacking layers. For the core part, the leather should be wrapped more tightly, while the larger petals radiating outward need to be arranged more sparsely, while exposing more of the petals.

The reverse side of the flower can also be sealed with hot melt glue to increase its strength.

Dangdang~ At this time, the leather petals are not completely dry yet, so continue shaping and finishing. Finished product picture~

Author: JOSH HandmadeLeather Goods Magazine

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