Letter Б or Ъ Balloon Twisting Russian ABC

Balloon twisting video instruction by Langerman www.fewdoit.com (author reserved no rights) public domain dedication.

Hello. Today we are going to make two letters

of russian alphabet.

Letter Б and hard sign Ъ твёрдый знак

Inflate a balloon leaving about four inch flat tail.

Recently I kept my self quite busy

helping translate previously published instructions

from English to Russian.

Russian is my native language.

And here we are making letters of Russian ABC

Twist the first soft about one inch bubble.

Lock both ends of the first bubble in one lock twist.

First I want to make a sculpture of russian letter Б.

And then we will use the same sculpture to make hard sign Ъ

Twist the second about four inch bubble.

Twist the third soft about one inch bubble.

Lock both ends of the third bubble in one lock twist.

In this example I work from the top of the letter.

Twist the fourth about three, four inch bubble.

Twist the fifth soft about one inch bubble.

Lock both ends of the fifth bubble in one lock twist.

Alright, now lets twist the sixth about four inch bubble.

Now we twist the seventh soft about one inch bubble.

Lock both ends of the seventh bubble in one lock twist.

Now we have to measure the size of the next

eighth bubble.

Shape the rest of the balloon to make a semicircle.

Grab the balloon next to the fifth bubble.

It is the point where we twist the eighth bubble.

Lock both ends of the chain of the last three bubbles

in one lock twist.

We can bend the eighth bubble to give it slightly square shape

And look! We have made the letter Б.

Alright, lets cut off the rest of the balloon.

Tie off the end or hide it between bubbles.

Now lets twist all bubbles in proper positions.

Congratulations again, we have made Russian letter Б.

We can attach letters to each other to make words

using sewing threads.

I prefer to use sewing threads of the same colors

as the background color.

It make the sewing thread invisible for human eye.

In this example I have dark, almost black background

And so, I chose black sewing thread.

So, here we loop sewing thread between the bubbles of the sculpture.

To suspend the letter in air.

So, again in this fashion we can attach letters

to make words.

One has to come really close to the sculpture

to see how we attach letters to each other.

We can use the letter Б to make Ъ hard sign, твёрдый знак.

In this example I use blue balloon to make another letter B

This time I turn the top part of the letter B

in opposite direction to make hard sign, Ъ твёрдый знак.

Congratulations again, we have made Russian letter Б

and hard sign.

We work both letters in exactly the same way.

Have fun and happy twisting :)