Very original ornaments from metallic lightning make Kate Cusack. Kate Cusack (Kate Cusack) - a young promising designer from Brooklyn has created a stylish collection of original ornaments from metal zippers: brooches, bracelets, unique necklaces and necklaces. Ordinary metal zippers fantastically stacked and folded into intricate composite ornaments.
The unusual use of ordinary metallic lightning in the performance of Kate Cusack look original and stylish. Her works are presented in many exhibition galleries and stores in the US and beyond. All this is manual work, which will have to pay a lot. The price of the necklace is $ 400- $ 1000, the bracelet is $ 100- $ 400, and the brooch is $ 70- $ 85. Original technology and design are protected by the corresponding US patent.
For those who want to try to create a flower from lightning will be needed: a long lightning (the longer, the larger the flower), you can use several small lightning bolts, a needle, scissors, thread in tone.
1. Unzip the zipper. Cut the "teeth" as close as possible to the lock. If several lightnings are used, then repeat for each.
2. On all halves of the lightning, except one, cut the other end, as shown in the figure.
3. Take that half that has remained uncircumcised. Tightly twist to form the foundation of the future bud. Fix with a few stitches.
4. Turn the lightning around the bud so that the lightning teeth do not overlap. Continue until you get a flower bud of the desired size.
5. Now we will add petals to the bud. Bend fabric of a lightning, forming a small crease, fix a thread.
6. Make a stitch near the fold from the edge to the center of the bud. Continue to fold and stitch every 12 mm, wrapping around the bottom of the zipper.
7. After you have used the whole zipper, making petals, fasten additionally from the edge to the center of the flower.
8. If you use several lightning bolts, simply fix the new one at the point where the previous lightning end. Continue until you get a flower of the right size.
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