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Makers of hair bows have to quickly discover that there are distinct widths of ribbons. The width is the length across the ribbon. The far more common widths utilized are 1.5, 7/eight, five/eight, and three/eight. Some the lesser employed ones are the actually wide ribbons in 2.25, which make a truly big and thick hair bow. Sometime ribbon factories make ribbon in 1 widths. This width is quite close to the 7/8 and is sometimes challenging to tell the distinction. Ribbon manufacturing firms can come out with their own distinctive widths, but generally, these are your only alternatives.
The 1.5 width is a excellent ribbon width to start off with because there is much more to hold and operate with. The 7/8 or five/eight widths are great for creating center knots for the bows. The three/8 is a good width for extremely little bows or they make a nice center for a bigger hair bow. I would not suggest knotting a 3/8 width ribbon unless it was for a extremely tiny hair bow, or you are placing it on top of a 7/eight or 5/8 width ribbon and then knotting it for a exciting appear.
Some ribbon makers like to use wood burning tools for what they contact heat sealing their ends. Most grosgrains will melt at really higher temperatures, and that is simply all bow makers imply when the say their ends are heat sealed. There are now other tools getting produced just for sealing off ribbon ends to keep them from fraying, and numerous ribbon web web sites are now supplying them to their on the internet clients for generating hair bows.
Yet another well-known way to preserve your ribbon ends from fraying is by applying Fray Check or any other brand to the ends of your ribbon. It is a liquid that, when dry, will harden and not let the ends to fray. These goods can be identified in any craft store. Be cautious when attempting out various brands since some will leave a mark on the ribbon and not dry clear. You do not want to apply so much even though that it drips off the hair bows or leaves a runny mark down the ribbon.
Then there are the hair clip or hair fastener options for hair bows. The alligator clip looks like an alligators mouth when it opens and closes. It typically has no teeth on this style of clip. They do however come in double pronged and single pronged. Single pronged is good when you are going for the least heavy and bulky, and double pronged is nice when you want that additional prong to hold it in the hair.
A French clip is the sort that you squeeze two prongs to release if from the closed position, and will spring open like a mouse trap since of the tension it is beneath by the semi-loose bracket on the inside. That bracket is in the shape of a crescent.
Possibly less widespread, are the plastic clip or barrette and a snap, which some makers of hair bows use, and they are fairly basic in nature and are plastic or metal so to give you the lightest attainable weight on completed hair bows. this month
