Hat Making Project
Habotai Silk Flower
Use a two-step dyeing process to create colourful habotai silk flowers.
Hat Making Project
Habotai Silk Flower
Use a two-step dyeing process to create colourful habotai silk flowers.
Projects / Habotai Silk Flower
Project Overview
Whether used as a trim or to make a floral headpiece, flowers offer endless creative possibilities for adding personality and bespoke customisation to your millinery designs.
In this tutorial, Martine from Martine Henry Millinery demonstrates how to make a colourful habotai silk flower using a two-step dyeing process that includes a traditional dye bath and felt tip pens. The result is a unique tie-dye effect. Jacquard dye was used for this project. If you haven’t used Jacquard dyes before, you can find guidance on preparing a dye bath in HATalk Issue 164.
Silk habotai works best for this “Sharpie tie-dye” technique. However, you might want to include some petals made of different fabrics to add extra interest to your flower. For these, you can use offcuts of any material you like. Just make sure that the pieces are big enough for tracing and cutting out some petals using your flower template.
Category: Flower Making, Trimmings
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What You Need
- Dye bath
- Hair dryer (optional)
- Steam iron
- Pipette (dropper)
- Mask
- Gloves
- Scissors
- Glue or needle and thread
- Flower template with multiple petal sizes (You can draw your own pattern onto paper or card or find a printable one online.)
- Pencils or chalk for tracing templates
- Plastic to protect your work surface
- Flower iron with ball attachment (15mm ball attachment was used for this project)
- Water spray bottle
- White or ivory silk habotai
- Silk taffeta or similar (optional)
- Permanent markers (Sharpie or similar)
- Surgical Spirit (rubbing alcohol)
- Iron on fusible adhesive (e.g. Bondaweb or Vilene)
Project Overview
Whether used as a trim or to make a floral headpiece, flowers offer endless creative possibilities for adding personality and bespoke customisation to your millinery designs.
In this tutorial, Martine from Martine Henry Millinery demonstrates how to make a colourful habotai silk flower using a two-step dyeing process that includes a traditional dye bath and felt tip pens. The result is a unique tie-dye effect. Jacquard dye was used for this project. If you haven’t used Jacquard dyes before, you can find guidance on preparing a dye bath in HATalk Issue 164.
Silk habotai works best for this “Sharpie tie-dye” technique. However, you might want to include some petals made of different fabrics to add extra interest to your flower. For these, you can use offcuts of any material you like. Just make sure that the pieces are big enough for tracing and cutting out some petals using your flower template.
Category: Flower Making, Trimmings
What You Need
- Dye bath
- Hair dryer (optional)
- Steam iron
- Pipette (dropper)
- Mask
- Gloves
- Scissors
- Glue or needle and thread
- Flower template with multiple petal sizes (You can draw your own pattern onto paper or card or find a printable one online.)
- Pencils or chalk for tracing templates
- Plastic to protect your work surface
- Flower iron with ball attachment (15mm ball attachment was used for this project)
- Water spray bottle
- White or ivory silk habotai
- Silk taffeta or similar (optional)
- Permanent markers (Sharpie or similar)
- Surgical Spirit (rubbing alcohol)
- Iron on fusible adhesive (e.g. Bondaweb or Vilene)
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