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Handmade Chanhua Mini Christmas Tree | Red and Green Silk Flowers on a Wooden Base
One handmade 12 cm Chanhua silk Christmas tree in red and green, on a wooden base and presented in a gift box.
$29.99
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Chanhua Silk Flower · 缠花
Silk thread wrapped into blossoms that last forever
Chanhua (缠花) is the Chinese art of wrapping flat silk thread over shaped wire frames to build three-dimensional flowers for hairpins, combs and brooches.
Ronghua Velvet Flower · 绒花
Velvet-soft silk flowers once worn at the imperial court
Ronghua (绒花) is the Chinese art of winding degummed silk velvet onto copper wire and hand-trimming it into flowers for headwear and jewelry.
Luodian Mother-of-Pearl · 螺钿
Mother-of-pearl inlay glowing inside lacquer
Luodian (螺钿) is Chinese mother-of-pearl inlay — thin shell cut into shapes and set into lacquer to catch the light.
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Chanhua Making
How to Make a Chinese Silk Flower Hairpin | Chanhua Tutorial
A silk flower hairpin, made from the first cut to the finished pin — dyed silk floss wound strand by strand over a shaped copper-wire frame. The craft is chanhua (缠花), and nothing about it is printed or molded: every petal is wrapped by hand. ## What happens in this video The whole method, in order: cutting the paper templates and the wire, wrapping the silk evenly around both, sealing the thread ends with a flame, shaping each petal, and fixing the finished piece onto the hairpin base. ## What you need of your own Three things: scissors, a lighter, and a cylindrical pen. The lighter seals the thread ends so the silk does not fray, and the pen barrel is what you shape the petals around — the small brush that comes in a kit is too thin for it. ## How long it takes A first piece runs from four to seven hours for a compact design such as the hydrangea hairpin, up to six to nine hours for a long stem like the trailing jasmine. Most of that time is the winding. You can stop at any point — wound silk holds its shape. ## Why the technique is different Chanhua is three-dimensional. It is closer to making a tiny silk sculpture than to sewing or embroidery: the silk is not stitched into fabric, it is wrapped around a wire skeleton until a flower appears. The same method builds every design in the shop — the wire frames decide which flower you get. ## Read more - What chanhua actually is: /blog/what-is-chinese-silk-flower-art-chanhua - How the silk is wrapped around the wire: /blog/how-to-wrap-silk-thread-around-a-wire-frame Wound by hand in Guang'an, Sichuan, by Hong.
Chanhua Making
Making a Blue Phoenix Brooch in Silk — 25 Quiet Minutes (No Talking)
A blue phoenix brooch, wound from dyed silk floss over a copper-wire frame — twenty-five quiet minutes of chanhua, with no voice-over anywhere in it. What you hear is rain, quiet music, and the work itself: silk against wire, scissors, a lighter. There is nothing to follow and nothing to remember. Watch it while you study, while you work, or while you fall asleep. The brooch is built petal by petal and every petal is wrapped separately. Nothing here is printed and nothing is molded — the whole piece is wound by hand, and it takes six to nine hours. Wound in Guang'an, Sichuan, by Hong.
Chanhua Making
How to Make a Blue Trailing Jasmine Hairpin — Full Chanhua Tutorial
Making a blue trailing jasmine hairpin from start to finish — dyed silk floss wound over copper wire, the Chinese craft of chanhua. Fifteen centimeters of stem, and every bloom is wound separately. That is why one piece takes six to nine hours: there is no shortcut, and no machine does this. **You'll need:** scissors, a lighter and a cylindrical pen. The lighter seals the thread ends so the silk does not fray, and the pen barrel is what you shape the petals around. Everything used in this video is in our [blue trailing jasmine hairpin kit](/products/chanhua-trailing-jasmine-hairpin) — the same kit also covers the leaves in the [leaf tutorial](/videos/chanhua-leaf-tutorial). [Finished pieces](/products/chanhua-trailing-jasmine-hairpin) are available for anyone who would rather not make one.
The journal
Guides, culture & styling
What is Chinese Silk Flower Art (Chanhua)?
Chanhua (缠花) is a thousand-year-old Chinese craft of wrapping silk thread around wire to form flowers. Here is its history, technique and meaning.
Chanhua DIY Tutorial: Make Your First Silk Flower in One Weekend
A calm, beginner-friendly walkthrough of wrapping your first Chanhua peony — from preparing silk floss to finishing a hairpin.
How to Wrap Silk Thread Around a Wire Frame (Chanhua Basics)
Wrapping silk thread flat around a wire frame is the single motion the whole craft of chanhua is built on. Here is how to do it so the petal looks smooth instead of ribbed.
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