Basic materials for paper flower DIY—flower pole, green wire, floral wire
In the hand-making of paper flowers, if it is just to make a single flower, it is unacceptable to many people. Because people prefer to gather multiple paper art flowers into beautiful handmade paper art bouquets, and the production of handmade paper art bouquets requires the help of this special and very common paper art flower DIY basics that we introduce today. Material - flower stem. Flower poles are also called green wire, floral wire, etc. The use of flower poles is very wide, not only limited to the production of paper flowers, but also used for the production of stocking flowers, silk screen flowers, fabric flowers, plastic flowers and other types of handmade art flowers. Its most important function is to add a stem to the finished craft flowers, which not only allows for flower arrangement operations, but also allows individual craft flowers to be gathered into the bouquet we need.
In the production of handmade origami roses, many friends have a problem, which is how to turn individual origami roses into handmade origami rose bouquets. In fact, this problem was also explained in the past origami rose tutorials, but the flower stem was not specifically mentioned. In fact, many of the exquisite handmade origami rose bouquets we see displayed by netizens on the Internet are realized through flower stems. Since the flower stems available on the market are usually green, they can be directly used to make the stems of handmade origami roses, and then they can be combined to form a single handmade origami rose, or multiple beautiful handmade origami roses. It can be easily assembled into a handmade origami rose bouquet.
Depending on the paper flowers you need to make, the flower stems also vary in size. When we are considering what kind of flower pole to buy, the rulerInches often become the standard that needs to be measured. Common types include the following:
1. Flower stem with a diameter of 2 mm. The paper flower bouquets suitable for making with this flower stem include origami rose bouquets, paper rose bouquets, paper carnation bouquets, paper rose bouquets, daylily bouquets, origami or paper peony bouquets, plum blossoms Flower bouquets, hibiscus bouquets, shell flower bouquets, orchid bouquets, origami chrysanthemum bouquets, etc.; due to its narrow diameter, it is more suitable for making paper flowers that look petite and attractive. For relatively wild large-scale paper flower production, you need to choose a flower stem with a longer diameter.
2. Flower stem with a diameter of 3 mm. The diameter of this type of flower stem is one millimeter larger than that of a flower stem with a diameter of 2 mm, so it is more suitable for flowers with a thicker diameter. Examples include handmade origami paper sunflower bouquets, large paper rose bouquets, lily and hyacinth bouquets. If the bouquet mentioned earlier needs to be made in a larger volume, you can also use thicker stems, so that the overall effect will be much better and it will not appear uncoordinated.
3. There is another type of flower stem, whose diameter is usually less than 1 mm. This type of flower stem is more suitable for making leaf veins. That is to say, when we are making paper art origami flowers, we should also consider using leaves to decorate the paper art flowers. At this time, you can Use relatively thin flower stems to create leaf veins that play an important role in the paper flowers. There are two common sizes, one is 0.6 mm and the other is 0.8 mm. Of course, this relatively thin flower stem can also be used directly to make smaller paper flowers, but its support effect is often not very good, so it is best not to make the paper flowers themselves too big.
4. Flower stems with a diameter greater than 3 mm can also be purchased in handicraft stores, so you can choose according to your own production needs.
In short, now we can easily buy flower stems of various sizes from handicraft stores. As long as the paper flowers we make need it, we can match them with beautiful flower stems to make simple paper flowers. Instantly transformed into a stunning paper art bouquet.
