# How to Make a Flower Crown Inspired by Victorian Art Nouveau ## Метаданные - **Канал:** Bernadette Banner - **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c5G0k1U-cU - **Источник:** https://ekstraktznaniy.ru/video/44412 ## Транскрипт ### Segment 1 (00:00 - 05:00) [] So, I need very little excuse to procrastinate one of my currently active projects with another project, or shall we say procrastination. Anyway, my wife loves Florence and the Machine, and I'm going to need you to find me someone more the living personification of our nuvo. I will wait. No, I will not because we are actually going to her concert tomorrow. And I thought I would surprise her with a couple of Victorian inspired flower crowns. So join me because I know for a fact that you have need for an art nuvo headdress for some purpose or another. This is not a debate. This is going to be a tutorial for maybe. 5 seconds whilst we make the base wire cirlet. And then after that when it comes to the design it is every man for herself. Most of this is stuff that I have just acquired through osmosis throughout my life. going into trim shops, finding things on Etsy, finding things at antique shops and estate sales and cool little vintage millinary supplies that, you know, I just thought looked cool and I would use in a project one day, which hey, I was right. I was justified in those purchases. Yeah, we've got plenty of beads which will be useful for making up bead swags. We have got a profusion here of silk flowers. Most of these are from Emin Schmalberg, silk flower makers in New York. We love supporting traditional crafts in this establishment. A lot of these leaves are also from Schmaldrich as well. We have got plenty of shells and rocks and minerals here. Little millinary paper flowers often found at antique shops and trimming shops. Little enamel berries and mushrooms and leaves and things. paper wrapped wire is going to be great for making the base of the headband to secure everything to, but also is a great natural looking material that doesn't look too fake and plasticky and will give it a more naturalistic base. So, step one, obviously, you have your the circumference of your head measurement, which you want to make sure fits your head, and that's just a straight piece of wire that is just wrapped and secured. and making sure the wire is pressed very firmly into the headpiece, which is what you want. Then you can go around and loop some additional I'm actually going to start from this end because that way we don't end up with two extra thick loopy bits here. And just going to loop this wire around again. This will give us something to anchor the rest of the materials into. Okay. This wrapped wire is going to be snug but not too tight. We still do want to be able to, for example, wedge a needle in here, but not so loose that things will fall out or slip around. And this does work a lot better with something like a paper wrapped wire where you've got that grip rather than a wire on wire that will just kind of slide around. This doesn't have to be regular or even. In fact, it's kind of better if you do have some bits that are more tightly wrapped and loosely wrapped because then you get some more variation in first of all in the texture of the waistband, but also in the ability to not have things shoved into the crown quite so regularly, which can make it less organic. I did order some flowers from M&Sburgg just because I knew for a fact that I needed some big fluffy flowers to go on the side of the face as we see very often in the artwork of this time period and also as we see on the Florence and the Machine album cover. I think there's one of them that has big ear flowers. Anyway, so that's one thing that I knew for sure that I wanted in the design and needed to make sure that we had in stock. Schmalberg have actually made this really easy on me because they've put safety pins on the back of their flowers so I don't have to stitch these on, which is great. Okay, ear flowers check. So, you can definitely go sourcing and buying materials for a flower crown if there's something specific that you want. But you could also, you know, make a flower crown out of whatever you can find around your house, what you can borrow from friends, steal from friends, really, because I don't think they're going to get it back. And just, you know, make it a little display of your treasures. So, we have a great collection of little trinkety things that I think are going to add just a different textural flavor to the headdresses that balance out the really soft elements of the flowers and the leaves along with the sparkly, shiny elements of the beads. We've been experimenting with different methods for attaching these. Uh the shells are definitely easy to drill through depending on the thickness of the shell. Some of them are more delicate than others, but the shells were all quite easy to drill through and thus easy to string onto a wire and then wrap onto the headdress. — Alternated. ### Segment 2 (05:00 - 10:00) [5:00] Oh. — Oh, sweet. Oh my god, this is going to be so pretty. — Wow. Oh my god. So excited. — It's all coming together. — This is looking good. I got to do some more wrapping work around this. But uh Okay, first of all, I'm going to make procrastinate. Okay. Beats. Beats. All these beads have been amassed from past projects because you never use all the beads that you buy for a project. So, you always end up with lots of random little straggler beads and cool star- shaped beads that you bought once thinking it would be really neat, but you didn't actually have a direct use for. — Good. Please. Um, so I think my next step is just to be attaching bead swags. I'm just going to like go around and start stitching things on. This is a really thick silk button hole twist, which will just be really strong because there's going to be a lot of stuff here that will have the potential to slice things open. And we just want to make sure that thread's nice and strong. And I'm treating this with some beeswax to make it extra strong and also to prevent it from tangling and producing knots because that will just be a nightmare in this situation. It's going to be a lot to catch on. So, I'm just going to start by tying a knot here with my thread, which is, you know, the exact same way you would do this as if you were hand sewing. Go through once, go through twice. You will probably need like an industrial-grade thimble for this unless you've actually followed my instructions and not wrapped your wire too tight and your needle therefore is easy to slide through. However, this is not. So therefore, you know, metal thimble is probably going to be best for this. Oh my god, you're going to be so jingly. — I'm She has arrived. — Oh, these are bells. So cute. Oh my god. Can you drill a peanut? — We can string a peanut on your — Hell yeah. — Yes. — Oh my god. — Whatever my wife wants, she shall have, including a pierced peanut. — Yes. Good. The rocks were a bit more challenging. I know nothing about geology, but apparently in order to drill through certain hardnesses of rock, you need like diamond tipped drills or acids to help drill through them. So anyway, we did not quite have 100% of the materials that we needed to drill through a rock. However, we did figure out how to wire wrap the rocks, which is a slightly less secure method, but it did actually end up working out quite well. Just wire wrapping them enough so that they stayed in place and then wire wrapping the hell out of the bases and then just kind of masking the bottom of that with some foliage, some beading, just making it look a little more intentional. — Oh, that's kind of fun. I'm going to do that. The peanuts going on. — It's peanut time. — Hell yeah. — Look, it's like a It's a super secret peanut. — Okay, so aside from the peanut, I'm also going to put leaves. One thing that comes in really helpful for a project like this are old millinary materials. So, you can often find these at flea markets. They're really cheap. Sometimes you can find them in bulk on eBay. These sort of resin or paper or wire, flowers, berries, organic sort of sprigs of things that were supposed to be used at one point to make beautiful hats and fascinators and things, but never got used. And so, they're just dead stock. but they're still, you know, having been made however many decades or maybe even 100 years ago. They're really great quality. If you get the really properly old ones, they don't tend to be made from plastics or things that can end up looking cheap, but they're made from like proper natural organic materials that can actually end up lending a really great tangible, real, grounded, earthy quality to your headpiece rather than a sort of cheap plasticky Amazon type quality. That's something that I tend to try and avoid. It's not always 100% possible to achieve depending on, you know, what you can find. But since most of these materials have been slowly amassed over time, I know that these are materials that I've fallen in love with ### Segment 3 (10:00 - 15:00) [10:00] and felt are good quality enough to obtain throughout the years rather than this is a project that I have to complete by tomorrow or next week and I need these materials now and I need to work with the budget that I have and therefore have to make concessions on the quality of materials. These I have acquired specifically for this task. These big liies, they are vintage and they're silk pressed. You find a lot of these in the artwork. So, I was like, we got to have some liies. — Yeah. Oh my god. More is more. — You might at this point be asking why you don't just use a hot glue gun or just start gluing things like probably normal people would. I don't have a hot glue gun, so we're working with what I have here. also because I mean these headpieces have been made and worn all throughout the 19th century and earlier. People have been making these for quite a while and I just you know I'm just curious to see how you would do this using traditional craft methods. You know if we don't have hot glue as would not have been a thing in the art nuvo period. You would probably be wire wrapping things and sewing things together. There's a way to do it and I'm going to do it. I'm going to just attach a couple of bead swags because one of the things that a lot of these Art Novo head pieces have is a lot of beads, a lot of little dangly things, a lot of things hanging down. This is also another reason why I don't love using a lot of glues in my projects is because when everything is just stitched together, everything is disassembble. A headpiece like this has a lot of really interesting elements to it. And I mean, this is obviously for somebody else, but when I make things for myself, I like to have the option of disassembling it and making it into something else. If for some reason, say one day I get bored of it or it's not quite right for the event that I'm planning to go to, I can just disassemble it and reassemble it into something that I would prefer. I will simply pass away. Oh my god. — Yeah. — Just brushing these guys with some gilding wax just to give them a little bit of pizzazz. Look, there's so much magic that can be created with gilding wax. — Oh ho ho. I get to be hideously evil now and show you a sponsorship before the reveal, which I usually get to blame on a brand. Except don't have that excuse today because this video is sponsored by our merch. I'm going to tell you about all the really cool things that you might be interested in obtaining for yourself, but also in helping to support this channel. We've got loads of stuff over on DFTBA, the fantastic company that really takes sustainability into account and makes sure everything is ethically produced. So, we've got some mugs, your saucy ankle mug, we've got tote bags. When I say we use these tote bags absolutely everywhere in the studio, we've got your essentials only tote. And then we've got your menace to polite society tote with, of course, the scandalous woman riding a penny farthing. You know, typical menace behavior. 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So, it's very structural. It's very strong. There's stitches that you can employ to make or mend entire garments. For those of you more crafty-minded people who want to get your hands on something, we have a fantastic collection of embroidery kits in collaboration with Hand and Lock. But for those of you who don't necessarily have the time to do embroidery yourself, we have got these gorgeous little pocket watch pins done with the traditional gold work method if you desire something a bit more wearable. We will have a ### Segment 4 (15:00 - 16:00) [15:00] whole host of links down in the description box below if any of this takes your fancy and if you would like to make sure that this channel keeps on running and get yourself something really cool in the process. And now on to the reveal. Time to do the biggest squat workout of all time. Do you think I can summon people with this? I mean, you can summon me. What do you want? — Oh, so elegant. And then even more elegant. — Yeah. — Secret people.