If you have long wanted to refresh your home interior, then we recommend making a topiary with your own hands. We understand what it is and join in this art together.
Topiary. What is it?
Topiary is called the tree of happiness. This is a peculiar branch of landscape design. Even in ancient Rome, there was a garden and park art of topiary, which implied curly cutting of trees and shrubs. By the 21st century, connoisseurs of the beautiful had a desire to contemplate the topiary not only in the garden. So there was a home topiary. A stable composition on a solid base, reminiscent of a tree. As a rule, the topiary is round, but if desired, it can be given any shape. Some craftsmen even make topiary from dry branches so that the crown is not round, but spreading.
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Types of Topiary
In the manufacture of topiaries, not only materials familiar to needlework are often used, but also fresh flowers. Therefore, they can be conditionally divided into two main types:
Alive
Living topiaries are rarely made at home, but it’s still worth talking about them. The product, although not durable, is still popular. Most often, topiary of fresh flowers is made by florists on request. The basis is taken floristic sponge or other material on which the flowers will feel good.The composition may contain additional details that do not require special care, but the main content is flowers.
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Artificial
Artificial topiary are most popular among needlewomen. With proper handling, they are able to decorate your apartment for years. As the basis for such a product, foam or cotton wool is most often used, since it is most convenient to work with them. After processing, various decorations are attached to the base. It can be any materials, ranging from coffee beans and ending with an egg shell.
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Often seasonal compositions are made in which appropriate materials are used. For example, in a winter topiary, you will definitely find needles, cinnamon sticks or Christmas decorations.
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And in the autumn dry leaves, cones or berries will be present.
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What elements are topiary
Even the most complex topiaries usually consist of three basic elements:
- crown
- trunk
- the base where the topiary will need to be "planted"
Crohn, as we already said, is a foam ball, which in the future will need to be decorated.
The barrel is made of different materials. Plastic tubes, dry branches, iron rods.
And the base of the tree is any stable surface or some kind of container, for example, a regular flower pot.
Now that we have figured out the components, we need to understand how to decorate the product.
What to use?
What the topiary will consist of depends only on the flight of your imagination, but there are some of the most popular materials that will suit a beginner.
Coffee beans. One of the most sought after details of the topiary is coffee. It is easy to handle and requires no processing.
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Many needlewomen use buttons, yarn and ribbons in their compositions.
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If you know how to handle polymer clay, then it will not be difficult for you to make some nice details for the future product before starting work. More often craftsmen make flowers.
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Sometimes topiary is made of sweets and other sweets, this option is especially loved by children at home.
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Common mistakes
- Crohn is less than a pot
If you want to use a large pot for topiary, then the base of the crown should be larger than it so that your tree does not get lost against the general background.
- Color congestion
It is important to observe the same color scheme in the topiary and not mix incompatible colors, so the product will turn out to be stylish and will please the eye.
- Overloaded with details
As a rule, topiaries do in any particular subject and a heap of details will smear the whole picture, depriving the individuality tree of happiness.
How to make a topiary at home
All topiaries are made according to the same principle, so first you need to learn the basics of needlework, so that over time you learn how to make complex, multifaceted compositions.
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If you want to make a topiary on your own, we suggest you look at several available workshops on this topic.
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