The gerbera is considered a symbol of kindness, lightness, chastity and modesty. According to the legend, Forest Nymph wanted to avoid the attention of people to her beauty, because he asked the goddess Flor to turn her into a modest flower. The gerbera from beads is a unlining sample of true beauty, which can be created with your own hands. Such a flower can be used to create an interior composition, various jewelry - brooches, hairpins, rims.
Representative of plant world
Gerbera - a large flower similar to chamomile. This is a wonderful representative of the flora from the tropical zone of Africa, Asia. It is included in the largest family of blooming plants - astera or complicated. Each flower is a basket consisting of a plurality of small flowers - in the middle of the tubular, and along the edges of the tongue. In the photo you can see the whole of becoming the beauty of the African guest.
The British called the German Transylvanian chamomile. It is widely found in culture and is grown to decorate flower beds, prefabricated clubs. A clock guest on the windowsill are household plants. Evaluated the beauty of inflorescences and long-term conservation of freshness after cutting the floristry masters. Interestingly, Gerber does not have blue and blue copies and even long-term selection works did not allow to derive a suitable hybrid. Blue buds found on sale, nothing but ordinary white gerberas, standing in water, with a blue dye.
And we suggest you create a luxurious flower that will delight bright appearance at any time of the year.
About materials
Since we will learn to create Transylvanian chamomile from beads, we will get acquainted with this material. The tiny beads did not always have the usual view with a smooth surface, the same holes and saturated paints.
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The history of mankind states that as soon as people opened a new material, he certainly became the subject for the manufacture of decorations. With the opening of a pottery tree, made beads from clay, in the Stone Age of Stone, and glass beads appeared in ancient Egypt, when the wizards were for the first time to get the glass. The ancestor of the modern bead was muddy, inaccurated, with uneven holes. Its painting was greenish due to natural impurities of metals. According to the Egyptologists of one of the beads found in ancient burial over 5.5 thousand years!
It cost the material insanely expensive, and the secret of its production was kept in the strictest mystery until the XVII century. In those days, Italy was a bead center, and separate glass plants were strictly protected territory. Employees of the factory could provide themselves to a comfortable existence, but for the disclosure of the secrecy of the production of colored glass would say goodbye to life.
Gradually, secrets switched abroad of the state and glass plants began to be built throughout Europe. One of the best centers for the production of bead is the Czech Republic. Large-quality is inferior to Japanese manufacturers. Their beads are valued for a variety of forms, allowing to create unique crafts.
To create crafts from tiny beads you will need:
- beads. Pay attention to the quality of the goods, the manufacturer and the room on the package. The greater the figure, the smaller the beads;
- Special thread (mononium), fishing line or wire and bead needles. These materials are selected in accordance with the size of the bead hole;
- sharp scissors, nippers;
- Various accessories, extra decor.
You can purchase all the listed materials in any store of needlework or sewing stores.
Technique performance
Create a transylvanian chamomile from beads is quite simple. Even a beginner master will cope with this work.
So, in the work you can use three main techniques:
- parallel weaving;
- arc, or french;
- Looping.
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They are performed according to the following schemes:
The first two techniques are used to create flower and leaves petals, the latter applies to small details - the wedge, stamens.
On the parallel weaving scheme, it can be seen that first the required amount of beads is visible, and fixation begins from the second row, by introducing the free end of the fishing / wire in the opposite side of the row.
Arc weaving is performed by forming expanding arcs around the central axis of the petal. It allows you to give the product realistic. An axial series of beads is placed on the wire. After fixing with twisting on the free ends, the amount of beads needed to form an arc. Arcs are attached to the axis by twisting wire.
With a looping weaving from bisper dialed on a wire forming a loop, twisting the wire under the loop. You can hold ends in opposite directions through the last bead.
Transylvanian chamomile
After mastering the main techniques of weaving, you can start a master class to create gerbera from beads.
To fulfill the gerbera flower you will need:
- beads of the main shade (peach) 40 g;
- White and green beads of 10 g;
- Orange and brown - 5 g;
- Leske, wire, bead needles - in accordance with the selected bead size;
- nippers;
- Metal mesh with a diameter of 3 cm;
- Coverage of thick wires and a green tape tape for stem.
Secure the line on the grid and take the brown beads with a diameter of 1 cm. Just hang beads and start the thread on the wrong side.
Form the second core tier, gaining beads on one and spending them through the holes of the neighboring. Third tire Make out of 3 brown and one orange beads. Secure, spending the logging through brown beads.
The following row is attached to brown columns. It consists of 2 orange and 7 peach beads.
Display the needle on the front of the grid to the nearest loose hole. Take 5 orange and peach biserin. Secure the loop by spending the line through the first 3 peach beads.
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The core gerbera is ready!
We proceed to weaving the petals of the French arc technician. It is performed as described above. The axis is gaining 10 biserin peach shade and two arc rows are performed on each side.
To obtain a large petal, type 20 main colors beads and perform 1 arc on each side of the axis. The next arc on 2/3 consists of a main shade and a third of the brightest. Third arc row. Perform by white beads.
Large and small petals will be needed 24 pieces.
They are attached to the hole of the grid, by twisting by pairs.
The second row also consists of 12 small petals, they are only attached in a chess order.
It remains only to perform two rows of large petals.
Glowing arc chashelistic is similar to petals. The axis consists of 7 beads. Stick up the tights of thin wire tight wrap the stem from the thicker wire. Again the cups and place the stalk tape ribbon. Our wonderful lesson on weaving gerbera for beginners has already approached the end.
You can perform petals and in the technique of parallel weaving, but they will not be so realistic.
Use the material of various shades, and you can make a magnificent durable composition, which will organically fit into any interior.
Video on the topic
You can see a visual process of creating a bead gerbera, looking at this video.