Simple products The easiest way to make flowers is from colored paper – it can be corrugated or plain, and if you plan to make strictly decorative flowers, you can take paper with a pearlescent or metallic effect. Do not make a tulip or a rose as your first experiment – start with something very, very simple.DIY schemes and templates for creating paper flowers Let’s start by creating such delicate flowers. Even if you simply…

Gypsum sculptures – history The history of sculptural compositions and individual gypsum busts goes back to antiquity. For millennia, people have furnished their homes with fragments of decorative stucco – now archaeologists find bizarre statues in the Egyptian pyramids, ancient Roman and ancient Greek buildings. The fashion for decorating spaces did not bypass Russia either – gypsum sculptures as part of the interior appeared in the country as early as the twelfth century. They served…

History of origin and varieties of cords This technique was originally used to weave the samurai belt and sword straps. But that was in ancient times; kumihimo weaving reached the peak of popularity in the 20th century during the hippie era. Now you can meet football fans dressed in multi-colored scarves made with the kumihimo technique.Japan is officially considered the homeland, but some scientists are trying to prove conjectures about the origin of kumihimo in…

Good day, our dear regular readers and guests of the blog! Very little time remains until the most mischievous and cheerful Maslenitsa holiday. In the coming 2018 we will celebrate Maslenitsa from February 12 to 18. Of course, we are looking forward to this wonderful holiday with great eagerness. Because the most important ritual at Maslenitsa is, of course, eating your favorite pancakes. Let us now try to remember what awaits us during Maslenitsa week.…