Holi celebration begins with lighting up of bonfire on the Holi eve. One of the major festivals of India, Holi is celebrated with enthusiasm. This festival is celebrated with colours and water filled balloons.
In the same way our Warli tribals also celebrate Holi festival with colours on each other and lot of fun.
This is how our Warli tribes celebrate.
Soap Flower as the name sounds different the making of Soap flower is also different.
Yes, making soap flower was a difficult task as it took lot of time to make and real lot of hard work. Its not that easy to make, so today I'll share with you the making of soap flower.
Materials:
1. Bath Soap (Any colour soft soap and green colour soap)
2. Fevicol
3. Green tape
4. Aluminium wire
How to make it:
1. Grate the bath soap finely, just the way you grate a coconut. The pieces should be very fine, it wont be when you grate try making it more fine with hand and make fine pieces.
2. Now mix the soap pieces with fevicol. Make sure the proportion of the grated soap and fevicol is proper or even u can add a bit more of fevicol.
3. Mix the contents properly and very finely so that the pieces wont be seen and make a soft dough out of it.
*Note:- Fan should be kept off while preparing the dough, or there are chances the mixture may get hard and it will be difficult to make flowers.*
4. Now take small pieces of dough make a petals by flattening each piece.
5. Arrange each petal on the aluminium wire one by one.
6. After you fix each petal cover the remaining aluminium wire using green tape.
In this way you can make different shapes and different varieties of flowers using your own imagination.
This is how a soap flowers are made.
Here is one for you.
A Warli village has been presented in this painting with huts, trees, animals and people. Men and women are seen cooking food, milking a cow, drawing water from the well, and carrying earthen pots filled with water on their heads. Women rearing babies, farmers with crops and cows. Warli painting shows an inseperable bond between men and nature. Domestic animals like hens and cows other animals and birds are also seen in the pictorial space.
My earlier posts of Warli painting refers to the whole bonding of warli culture, their festivals and their dance forms.
Here I am back with something more on Warli painting. Today will show a Dance form of Warli painting.
In my earlier blog I have discussed about Tapra Dance and that dance shows the whole festive culture of Warli.
This painting is only on the Warli dance that they specially perform on all their occasions. The women tied their hair in one single knot and the men with the instruments. Most of the Warli paintings you see will have this Dance form in it as that adds the beauty to the Warli culture.
I'll come up with more of Warli culture paintings..
Here is the Warli dance.
Carnation flowers is one of the world's oldest cultivated flowers. Carnation flowers is known as "flower of love" or "flower of the gods". Carnations remains a favorite flower choice for many different occasions. So why don't we start learning how to make it.
Materials:
1. Duplex paper (any colour)
2. Green duplex paper
3. Aluminium wire
4. Green tape
5. Thread
6. Cotton fibre
7. Fevicol
How to make it:
1. Cut apart a circular piece of 7cm diameter in any colour duplex paper.
2. Make it four folds and give zigzag shape to the open ends as shown.
3. Unfold the paper into two and give uniform cuts, 2.5cm in depth around the circular piece.
4. Now make it four fold, take the wire and fold the tip to make knot, insert the knot from the centre of the piece.
5. After tieing it with wire make it into eight fold, tie at the bottom and give 1cm deep cuts to the zigzag portion of the petal.
6. Wrap the green tape on the stem wire at the bottom of the petal and similarly make 4 more petals (total 5 petals).
7. Take the five petals and twist all the stem wires together.
8. Arrange some cotton fibre below the petals (on the twisted wire) and cover then using green tape.
9. With the use of Green duplex paper make leaves. (leaves should be given oval shape).
Here is a beautiful Carnation flowers ready.
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Camellia flowers the most beautiful among orchid flowers. There are different types of Camellia flowers, so here I'll show you one such kind.
*Note: The petals and leaves diagrams have to be cut along vertical lines of duplex paper.
Materials:
1. Duplex Paper (Red, White and Green)
2. Green tape
3. Aluminium wire
4. Thread
5. Cotton fibre
6. Mustard Dal (Rai Dal)
7. Fevicol
How to make:
1. Cut a rectangle piece of white duplex paper and give uniform cuts to the paper by leaving 1cm each from top and bottom.
2. Take aluminium wire and surround it with cotton fibre on top and tie it with thread.
3. Stick the white duplex paper around the cotton and now stick the upper ends of the white piece together.
4. Now stick some mustard dal (rai dal) on the centre of white piece (on the tips).
5.Now make the petal in the shape as shown in the picture. For making one single petal you need to cut two petals of same shape and size.
6. For the first petal cut two pieces of red duplex paper as shown in the figure and place the wire in the middle of the first petal. Apply fevicol and place the other piece on it. The first petal is ready.
7. In the same way make five more petals. After you make it twist the petal and reopen to get wrinkles on the petal.
8. Arrange three petals uniformly around the flower centre.
9. Now arrange two more petals in such a manner, so that one petal stands in between the previous two.
10. Now cut green duplex paper in the shape of a leaf. For leaf follow the same procedure as petal.
In the same manner make as many leafs and flowers you want and arrange it accordingly.
Here is the one I made.
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Stocking flowers, the most beautiful and creative one. Its a very interesting craft that you can try out. The main thing you will need for making stocking flower is lot of aluminium wire as everything you need to make is with the wire itself
Materials:
1. Stocking Cloth (different colours)
2. Aluminium wire
3. Flower thread
4. Pips
5. Green tape
Method:
1. Firstly think of the petal of any flower that you would like to make, take a piece aluminium wire and make the shape of the petal with the wire.
2. Tie both the ends of wire tightly and now take stocking cloth and cover the wire completely.
3. Make sure the stocking cloth is stretched completely so that it looks like shaded cloth and tie the end tightly. In this way make as many petals you want for flower.
4. Take some 4-5 pips and tie it using a piece of aluminium wire, then arrange petals one by one to the wire.
In this way you can come out with this beautiful creation.
Here is one for you.
Beautiful stocking flowers.
