Ronghua DIY Kit | Robin from the Garden
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Ronghua DIY Kit | Robin from the Garden
Lansei China
100% silk, copper wire and other tools included in the DIY Kit
Level Four
50-55 Hours
Keep the tools dry and away from fire
Not sure if this DIY kit is right for you? Don't worry!
Choose Your Ronghua Adventure
To help you enjoy a smooth (and fun!) journey into the world of Ronghua, we’ve sorted all our kits into four levels based on their difficulty and time commitment. Check it out!
What Else May I Need?
Alongside your Ronghua DIY Kit, the most important addition is a Ronghua Toolkit — especially if you don’t already have suitable crafting tools.
For most of our Ronghua DIY Kits, we offer two options: “DIY Kit Only” and “DIY Kit + Toolkit.”
If you’re new to Ronghua, we recommend choosing the option with the toolkit. All of our Ronghua toolkits are the same across different kits, so you only need one toolkit set for all future projects.
👉 You can check the details of the current Ronghua Toolkit here.
Here’s what else may help:
Ronghua Stand (Recommended, Not Essential)
A Ronghua stand is a very helpful tool for stretching and brushing the silk evenly, but it’s not essential for beginners.
You can easily achieve great results using creative alternatives, such as a stable drawer, table edge, or other household setups. Many of our beginners start this way and still create beautiful flowers.
👉 We’ve made a short tutorial showing alternative methods here: Watch the video
Hairspray or White Crafting Glue (Essential – Setting Solution)
The liquid used to dip and set the silk petals is called the setting solution. There are two easy options:
① Hairspray (Best Option)
From our crafting experience, regular hairspray gives the most consistent, convenient, and beginner-friendly results.
Due to airline shipping restrictions, we’re unable to include spray products — but you can simply use any normal hairspray you already have at home.
② DIY Setting Solution
You can also mix white crafting glue with water (or alcohol) at a ratio of 1 : 1.15–1 : 1.2.
This short video (from 17:02) shows the process clearly: Watch the video
Magnesium Powder or (Simply) a Small Piece of Tissue Paper (Highly Recommended)
Attaching copper wire to silk is often the trickiest step for beginners.
While experienced crafters can usually do this directly by hand, we highly recommend using:
Anti-slip powder (magnesium powder), or
A tiny piece of tissue paper — simple, but surprisingly effective!
This small trick dramatically improves grip and control, making the process much easier and more enjoyable.
👉 We demonstrate this method in our tutorial video (from 5:28): Watch the video
Bamboo Trimming Base with Professional Tapering Scissors (Optional, Helpful for Advanced Finishing)
The bamboo base/cup helps stabilise your hand and scissors while trimming and tapering silk strips.
The No.7 Professional Trimming Scissors are one of those rare finds that can truly handle long, thin silk strips, which are notoriously tricky to taper smoothly.
Not mandatory for beginners, but very helpful if you want to refine your technique over time.
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Ronghua
a millennium-old art of decoration, traces its origins to the royal family of the Tang Dynasty in China
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I really enjoyed making my hair pin! I found it came out very similar to the examples and the kit included enough material for me to not get it right the first time and still produce a really nice end product! It was a fun weekend project.
The tutorials were generally good, although I would have found a written summary helpful (E.g. a 1 page with the strips needed, how many threads to include, how wide the place the wires etc.) - I ended up basically creating my own reference sheet by pausing the videos and writing down all the details.
On the kit materials, I ordered both the kit and the tools - everything feels very high quality and was nicely packaged. If anything the scissors almost feel too heavy duty - they feel like they'd be perfect fabric scissors for sewing (high quality) but they move the threads quite a bit when I try to cut the threads into strips - this might be because I'm doing the wire wrong but I feel like smaller (thinner, but still very sharp) scissors might work better?
I’ve wanted to try this for some time so took the plunge and although I’m still finding some of the stages a bit fiddly I am really enjoying building the silk flowers. My first effort wasn’t perfect and I did mess up a little but I didn’t expect to be a pro from the get go. I’m loving this so much I have bought additional tools and I have another kit and extra silks on their way so I can practice more.
I'm addicted to making these flowers! The process is very relaxing, and the end result is gorgeous! I do wish there were written dimensions/instructions so I wouldn't have to refer back to the video, but I can always write those down.
Ronghua Stand with Superior Stability|Bamboo
This was a wonderful experience. I bought a product that had fortunately just sold out. Lansei team reached out and offered to make it from scratch. They were flexible with me to make a different sold out project that I preferred instead. They were communicative, honest, and fast. The product arrived ahead of schedule and personalized. The team went above and beyond for us. It is now a treasured possession and I would gladly recommend them.
New fan from Facebook. The tool set is a well thought out and sourced kit and while I'm sure there's any number of ways that you can set the thread up as needed for Ronghua, the bamboo stand makes it a breeze even for a beginner. I loved every bit of my first purchase from Lansei from the quality of materials on down to the packaging. The kits that have pre made petals have perfect little petal templates to shape and the DIY kits are well thought out with plenty of materials. Ordering from the US is every bit worth the wait and my first order was perfect!
This is the second ronghua kit I've gotten from here and I liked it very much.
As always I received some high quality materials with plenty of excess for if I make mistakes.
I think the instructions for this one weren't as good as the tulip one I did first, especially when it came to figuring out how many threads to use when making the silk strips. So I wouldn't recommend this as the first kit to try, as I think I would have struggled a lot more if I hadn't done another beforehand.
The colours of thread I received were also a bit darker than what is in the picture and tutorial.
But overall, I'm very happy with the little bamboo bonsai I managed to make with this kit and I have heaps of materials left to make something else if I want to.
This is the second ronghua kit I've gotten from here and I liked it very much.
As always I received some high quality materials with plenty of excess for if I make mistakes.
I think the instructions for this one weren't as good as the tulip one I did first, especially when it came to figuring out how many threads to use when making the silk strips. So I wouldn't recommend this as the first kit to try, as I think I would have struggled a lot more if I hadn't done another beforehand.
The colours of thread I received were also a bit darker than what is in the picture and tutorial.
But overall, I'm very happy with the little bamboo bonsai I managed to make with this kit and I have heaps of materials left to make something else if I want to.
Ronghua DIY Kit | Birdie in Spring
I have just started embroidering the delicate fan and really enjoying it. The layers of colour and detail are a bit challenging to do but so rewarding. I will have to do another one. As usual, the kit presentation is so elegant and professional.
There is everything you need and good customer service. If you need help they will reply
I ordered a surprise kit (or as my kids call it, a crafty blind box), and got some great summer colors that made a beautiful hair pin, and plenty more to go!
This is my first purchase through lansei and it did not disappoint. High quality materials, detailed instructions and helpful videos. This is not an easy craft but despite never seeing it done in person, I was able to make an acceptable and beautiful piece. I started with level 1 and I do recommend that for beginners. They make it look easier than it is at first. Im excited to try my next piece!!
It just arrived today and the lamp part is amazing - well put together and the light with various levels is great. As usual the fabric and thread kit is beautiful. This is my next project- after I finish the fan.
This fan is so elegant and delicate. And the video is so good both technically and for the detailed instructions. Need more of these definitely.
