How To Wrap Hair With Embroidery Floss

Start wrapping around the ball rotating as you. Fold that in half this is the center of the ball.

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Keep going moving down the braid as you wrap.

How to wrap hair with embroidery floss. For this method you cut the threads to your desired hair length plus the amount of thread you need for a knot. Wrap a pencil or knitting needle with wet thread and blow dry it. It is important to keep your cord straight down and tight to create a good knot with your embroidery floss.

Group at least 3 or more threads together or the knot might slip through the fabric hole. Choose 1 or 2 color strands that you want to use to wrap your hair. Wrap at least 12 of the feather to hold it in place.

If you wrap very tightly you can get one whole skein of embroidery floss on a pencil or paintbrush. Make sure to also write the number of the floss on the bobbin with a permanent marker or small label so that you can easily identify it later. Start by wrapping the thread around two fingers about 10 times.

When you remove the labels from your skein use a paper plastic or specialty bobbin such as those shown below to wrap your floss around until you need to use it. Tie the strands to the top of your thin braid. A good rule to follow is measuring the thread against the chosen strand of hair and make the thread 2-3 times longer than your hair or the extension you are wrapping.

We chose bright pink light pink Then proceed to wrap those 2 strands tightly around both the braid AND the other unused embroidery floss strands. Wrap the hair and feather tightly together. The solution is to use bobbins.

Cut three strands of embroidery floss that are twice the length of your hair. This is for all the Bram girls who wanted to know how to do hair wraps I hope this helps. Cut the thread or embroidery floss to your desired length.

Just hold the tip of the feather in with the braid and the 7 strands of floss. The next step is important. Put one hand on your cord to keep it taunt and with the other hand pull your embroidery floss straight up.

Be sure to leave at least an inch or two on your working string to help your wraps stability. Slide it off and then wrap the thread around the loop a few times it should look a bit like a bow. Measure out as many colors as you want to add to the first wrap and lay them out together.

One technique to ensure a tight wrap is to do four wraps around push these wraps up and repeat. Then you knot the end of the thread thread the needle and pull it through from behind the fabric. Wrap your working strings tightly around both your hair and the other six strings.

Let your threads cool down before unwrapping it again. Now your ready to start your wrap. Pull Your Floss Up Then pull your floss all the the way up to the original knot you tied.

Pick up one of the other colored strands of embroidery floss and repeat the wrapping technique around the hair until you have wrapped another two inches of hair. Take the band with the strands in it and wrap around the section of hair as close to the scalp as is comfortable. Lay the strand you just wrapped vertically against the section of hair.

To hold the ends in place use a piece of masking tape. Keep wrapping until you get a nice section of wrapped hair. Have the person roll their neck around to make sure it is in a good place.

After you have done this braid the hair all the way down and band the end. Keep wrapping until you reach the desired length on the one color. Holding two strands to to the braid begin to wrap one color around.

I did not wrap enough of the feather during my first attempt and it fell out the next day so be sure to secure plenty of the feather into the wrap.

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