Manufacturing steps of flower hairpin petals

The petals of the flower hairpin are made as follows:

Fold a rectangular colored paper into a triangle according to the middle crease, and the other side is also folded into a triangle. Fold the two sides of the triangle to the middle, turn to the back, and fold the two corners at the bottom up. Apply glue to the bottom edge, fold one side coated with glue and stick the other side together.

Press the other side into petal shape, fold eight petals in half according to this method, coat glue on the bottom of petals, stick all petals together, cut the lower part of rectangular origami into thin tassels, roll up the cut origami and stick it in the center of petals, roll up the prepared tassel origami with a small rope, and wrap the rectangular origami around chopsticks to make sticks.

Hang the finished tassel on the hairpin and stick the finished petals on the end with the tassel. At this time, a simple and beautiful antique hairpin was made.

Hairpin style:

In ancient times, there were many forms of hair clips, such as bone, stone, pottery, mussel, Jing, bamboo, wood, jade, copper, gold, ivory, horn and tortoise shell. The styles of hairpins are very rich, and the main changes are concentrated on the head of hairpins.

Common flower varieties include plum blossom, lotus flower, chrysanthemum flower, peach blossom, peony flower and hibiscus flower. The names of the pins in Tianshui Iceberg Record in the Ming Dynasty include Golden Peach Blossom Pins, Golden Plum Blossom Pins, Jin Juhua Pins, Gemstone Pins, and Gold Box Inverted Pins.

Hairpins with animals as the head are common in dragons and phoenixes, unicorns, finches, swimming fish, etc. Among them, Impatiens are the most beautiful.