How to make hydrangea by hand

The first is to make the cloth shell - with the paste of 4 layers of cotton cloth flat together, and then various colors of silk cloth glued to the backing cloth, pressed into a flat and solid cloth shell; followed by the production of the leaf petals, in general, regardless of the size of the Jingxi hydrangea leaf petals are 12 petals a ball.

Second, embroidery on the leaf petals. This step is the most important, generally the smaller the embroidered ball pattern is more simple, and the larger the embroidered ball pattern is more complex, vivid. Legend has it that "in addition to the middle four petals of material selection is not restricted, the rest of the requirements 'on the four petals must pick birds, the next four petals must be beasts'" said. For embroidery ball patterns with a diameter of less than 6 centimeters, every woman on the old street can basically draw her own. But the diameter of 8 cm or more, such as 12 cm, 20 cm and even 1 m, 2 m large embroidered ball, the embroidery pattern, the pattern on the color how to match, it must be good at drawing people first draw, with good color, others then copy.

The third step is to do triangular shuttle-shaped ball petal flap. In the past, the filler inside the embroidered ball with mung beans, corn, cotton seeds or husks, can make the ball has a certain weight, suitable for throwing; but also a metaphor for the seeds of friendship and love thrown to each other, or to express the love of mung beans as long as evergreen. I don't know when, old cotton was used to fill the hydrangeas in the old streets of Laozhou, and later, because it was unhygienic and easy to get damp, it was changed to wood shavings, which are not easy to absorb water, to be used as the filler.

The last process is to fill the triangular pike-shaped petals after the tip of the leaf tip-to-tip sewing into a round ball, and embellished with beads, silk ribbons and other small ornaments, a delicate and exquisite embroidery ball is made.