an introduction to bunting

An Introduction to

ContentsTraditional BuntingHow to make your own BuntingCrochetFormatsStationeryPatterns

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Traditional BuntingBunting was originally used by the Royal Navy as Signalling Flags but has been adopted over the years as a decoration for homes and celebrations. Bunting has a wonderful retro charm that is perfectly in tune with today’s fashion for the vintage look. No longer con-fined to the outdoors, you can revel in bunting as a seasonal and year round decoration in any room in the house. Making your own allows you to use

fabrics and trimmings that per-fectly complement your room schemes. Best of all, bunting is quick and easy to make and is a great way of using up scraps from your fabric stash.

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How to Make Your Own Bunting

Step 1:

Download Template, cut and sew bunting triangles. ‘http://www.yvestown.com/downloads/bunting.pdf’

Step 2:

Prepare Bias Tape by fold-ing in half length ways and ironing.

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Step 3:

Leave a 20cm gap before you begin to stitch the fabric traingles to the bias tape.

Step 4:

Wiggle and tuck until the flag is perfectly lined with the bias tape

Step 5:

Leave a 7cm gap between each flag.

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Crochet

Crochet is a process of creating fabric from yarn, thread, or other material strands using a crochet hook. The word is derived from the French word “crochet”, meaning hook. Hooks can be made of mate-rials such as metals, woods or plastic and are commercially manufactured as well as pro-duced by artisans. Crocheting, like knitting, consists of pull-ing loops through other loops, but additionally incorporates

wrapping the working material around the hook one or more times. Crochet differs from knitting in that only one stitch is active at one time (excep-tions being Tunisian crochet and broomstick lace), stitches made with the same diameter of yarn are comparably taller, and a single crochet hook is used instead of two knitting needles. Additionally, crochet has its own system of symbols to represent stitch types.

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Formats

Japanese stab stitch binding is an old fashioned method of binding a book. To bind the book you must stab holes equally spaced apart and then stitch together with string, thread or ribbon.

Japanese Stitch Binding

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Coptic binding methods of book-binding employed by early Chris-tians in Egypt, the Copts, and used from as early as the 2nd century AD to the 11th century. The term is also used to describe modern

bindings sewn in the same style. If made without a cover, the book may open 360°. Similar to the jap-anese stitch binding, this method uses thead, string or ribbon.

Coptic StitchBinding

Stationery

This hand-rendered typogra-phy fits in well with the theme of bunting as it is quite rustic and charming. This ‘home - made’ style could be carried through to the deliverables and influence the ‘how to’ guides. Considering the target audience which is most likely going to be teenage girls age 13 - 18 then this style is very ap-propriate.

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This woodland creature range sta-tionery, now available in the high street shop, wilkinsons has a great product range. This is something that must be considered when de-signing a stationery set as there is quite a lot of room for experimen-tation.

Stationery

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Pattern

To compete in the competitive market for bunting, it is import-ant that the patterns are not just old regurgitated ones, for exam-ple, ditsy floral patterns are very common on bunting.

The patterns below are called ‘Blooming Lovely’ By Lola violet. This blocky chunky style is some-thing that I’ve came across quite often recently and think it would make interesting bunting.

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The patterns below are called ‘Sweet Tea’ By Khristian a Howell. The colours used here I have nev-er seen applied to bunting before. Geometric patterns are also very in at the minute.

The patterns below are called ‘Sa-fari’ by Angela Rekucki. Animals are often found in printed pat-terns today. The colours here and leaves is interesting and could tar-get a different range of people.