How to make brush for curtains

How to make brush for curtains

Effective brushes look beautifully and on throw pillows, and on cozy covers, and on heavy curtains. They serve as fine addition of the twisted cord which is picking up drapery. Store products cost quite much, and is not difficult to make the original at all. Stock up with enough different yarn and thin synthetic cord.

It is required to you

  • - yarn, threads, thin cord;
  • - parts for ornament in the form of rings, balls, cylinders;
  • - scissors.

Instruction

1. Take piece of cardboard, its width will be equal to length of future brushes. Wrap yarn, thin lace or thick threads around cardboard, you will not reach the necessary thickness yet. Above hardly tie rounds, and below scissor. Do not cut off thread by which connected yarn.

2. Completely twist wooden ring and ball with the same material. Miss thread through ring and fix on ball then to attach brush to decorative cord.

3. Instead of wooden parts find houses original bagatelles in the form of cones, rings and cylinders for decoration of brushes – parts from candlesticks, plastic Christmas decorations, big buttons. Perfectly various hand bells approach in form.

4. Replace laces and yarn with strings of beads or start up decorative parts on basis top. Decorate brush from threads with inserts from twisted laces. Use lurex, in curtains brilliant threads often meet.

5. Look for beads which you do not wear long ago in caskets. From them let all parts to decoration of brush, it will look much richer. Interesting elements can be found in garage among old lamps and chandeliers. The crystal sparkling balls and suspenders will perfectly look on long brush from thin synthetic cord.

6. Thin satin ribbons can also be wound around piece of cardboard to receive brush for curtains. It is optional to do equal sawn-off shotgun, and on tip of each ribbon bind bugles ball. Weave braid out of the same films and use it instead of cord holder.

7. Choose material for creation of brushes, proceeding from the general style of the room. The metal chains of different form and the size collected in bunch by leather thong holder will decorate interior of the room of the rocker. Suede vintage fringe and copper parts with pattern. Multi-colored feathers and openwork lace. Plastic detalk and rubber laces. It is possible to make brushes for curtains of all this to please relatives with the imagination and skill.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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