Ribbon cockade

I love to read your comments, and will always try to help if someone asks a question. So when a reader got in touch to ask about the hexagonal ribbon cockade which appeared in this post, I dug out some ribbon and tried to remember how it was done. I must admit, this took a while as it's well over three years since I last made one of these! It's actually very simple to do, but with the right ribbon can look very effective. You will need a ribbon which is the same on both sides. First, fold…

Cockades were as individual as the people who made them. There has never been an "official" pattern for making cockades, unless a particular group required a certain cockade style for their badge. However, there were general methods used to make these lovely little rosettes and that's what I'm blogging about today. Backing Material Cockades were generally sewn onto a form of some sort, buckram or a similar stiff fabric. This was not always the case, particularly for military hat cockades…

Leila Sanderson shares her beautiful handcrafted kids’ range, on show now at TDF Open House in Melbourne!

In this post I'm going to show you a few things you can do with the technique you learned in Part 1 of this series. These photos are imperfectly categorized, but as you read along you should get the idea. Hopefully this will give you some ideas so that you can go and make your own unique cockades! 1. Tail variations. In Part 1 I chose to tuck the tails of the ribbon into a loop so that they don't show. Here are a few cockades where I left the tails dangling out. Two cockades with their tails…

1st prize rosette ribbons from tara badcock at story

Colourful ribbon cockades were made by millinery students in the Ribbon Origami 2015 course at Louise Macdonald's Melbourne studio.

Make a Ribbon Cockade: Making a cockade from ribbon or narrow fabric is a fairly easy thing to do once you know how, but I didn’t have any instructions when I figured this whole thing out. I had seen some lovely ribbon ornaments at a Renaissance Faire and wished I had pur…