How to Make a Korker Hair Bow

Korker Hair Bows are one of my favorite Boutique Hair Bows and among the most expensive, with Gymboree selling them for around $5 each to boutiques selling them for as much as $10 each. Making your own Korker Hair Bow is fairly easy, and is much less expensive.

To make your own Korker Hair Bows you will need ¼ inch or 5/16 inch dowel rods, wooden clothespins, 100 % 3/8 inch wide polyester ribbon it can be grosgrain, satin, jacquard, or organza, string or elastic, glue gun, and Fray Check or clear nail polish.

Preparing Your Korker Ribbon

The first step in making your Korker Hair Bow is to prepare your Korker Ribbon. For this you will need your dowel rods, which can be purchased at any local Hardware Store. When you purchase dowel rods, they are usually long and you will need them to be somewhere between fifteen and seventeen inches long, so you can either have someone at the store cut it for you or you can cut it yourself.

The first thing you will want to do is to preheat your oven to 275 degrees. Once you have done that you will need to place your ribbon at the top of the dowel rod, and secure it tightly using a clothespin, after the ribbon is secure you will begin twisting the ribbon tightly around the dowel rod. I have heard many people say that putting the end of the dowel rod into a drill tip, and using the drill to twist the ribbon is easier, but I am not extremely coordinated so I usually wrap the ribbon by hand. Once you get to the end of the dowel rod you will want to cut the ribbon and secure the end of the ribbon to the dowel rod with a second clothespin.

After you have finished wrapping the ribbon around your dowel rods you will be ready to place your ribbon into the oven. You can do this one of two ways, you can line your oven rack with aluminum foil and place your dowel rods directly onto the oven rack or you can place the dowel rods on cookie sheets lined with aluminum foil. However you choose to place your dowel rods into the oven, you will want to leave them in the oven for about twenty-five minutes.