How to Make a Corsage

Transcript

0:00 Hi! My name is Amelia Tallman, and on behalf of Expert village.com I am here today taking

0:05 about how to build wearable flowers. In this step, we are going build a corsage. We have

0:11 already learned how to wire and tape our flowers; so now its time to bring them all together.

0:20 So, you want to think about how you want your corsage to lay. Corsages are not necessarily

0:28 symmetric pieces of floral arrangements, because they are almost exclusively worn on one side

0:36 of the body; and so its okay to make it asymmetrical. And you always want a generally try and have

0:44 some curvature in it; you don’t want it to move straight down, you want things to

0:48 kind of bend and move around. These are the two main flowers I am going to use for this

0:52 corsage. This one, as you can see, is a little smaller, so its going to be the upper end

0:57 of the corsage, and this one is going to be the lower end. So I think that I want them

1:03 to sit with this one sticking kind of facing upwards a little bit, rather than pointing

1:13 up. So I’m going to bend a little bit with the wire that we have in there, so it sits

1:18 up like that, just a touch; whereas the other one is going to point upward. And then just

1:26 kind of wind the two pieces of wire around each other. This is generally how you start

1:32 out with building: just wind the wires around each other. Now, we want to add in more than

1:42 just these two flowers. You always want to add in a piece of greenery. This will also

1:46 have wired and taped. We will bring it in probably right about there, to fill the space

1:54 between the two; and, again, we will wind it around. And now I am going to bring in

2:09 some filler flowers. So I just kind of want it feel around where what things look good,

2:15 and I am just kind of hold them into place. Once I have them where I want them, I am going

2:19 to wrap additional floral tape around them.

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