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Letter Б or Ъ Balloon Twisting Russian ABC

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    Hello. Today we are going to make two letters
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    of russian alphabet.
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    Letter Б and hard sign Ъ твёрдый знак
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    Inflate a balloon leaving about four inch flat tail.
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    Recently I kept my self quite busy
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    helping translate previously published instructions
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    from English to Russian.
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    Russian is my native language.
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    And here we are making letters of Russian ABC
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    Twist the first soft about one inch bubble.
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    Lock both ends of the first bubble in one lock twist.
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    First I want to make a sculpture of russian letter Б.
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    And then we will use the same sculpture to make hard sign Ъ
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    Twist the second about four inch bubble.
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    Twist the third soft about one inch bubble.
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    Lock both ends of the third bubble in one lock twist.
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    In this example I work from the top of the letter.
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    Twist the fourth about three, four inch bubble.
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    Twist the fifth soft about one inch bubble.
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    Lock both ends of the fifth bubble in one lock twist.
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    Alright, now lets twist the sixth about four inch bubble.
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    Now we twist the seventh soft about one inch bubble.
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    Lock both ends of the seventh bubble in one lock twist.
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    Now we have to measure the size of the next
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    eighth bubble.
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    Shape the rest of the balloon to make a semicircle.
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    Grab the balloon next to the fifth bubble.
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    It is the point where we twist the eighth bubble.
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    Lock both ends of the chain of the last three bubbles
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    in one lock twist.
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    We can bend the eighth bubble to give it slightly square shape
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    And look! We have made the letter Б.
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    Alright, lets cut off the rest of the balloon.
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    Tie off the end or hide it between bubbles.
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    Now lets twist all bubbles in proper positions.
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    Congratulations again, we have made Russian letter Б.
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    We can attach letters to each other to make words
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    using sewing threads.
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    I prefer to use sewing threads of the same colors
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    as the background color.
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    It make the sewing thread invisible for human eye.
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    In this example I have dark, almost black background
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    And so, I chose black sewing thread.
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    So, here we loop sewing thread between the bubbles of the sculpture.
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    To suspend the letter in air.
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    So, again in this fashion we can attach letters
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    to make words.
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    One has to come really close to the sculpture
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    to see how we attach letters to each other.
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    We can use the letter Б to make Ъ hard sign, твёрдый знак.
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    In this example I use blue balloon to make another letter B
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    This time I turn the top part of the letter B
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    in opposite direction to make hard sign, Ъ твёрдый знак.
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    Congratulations again, we have made Russian letter Б
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    and hard sign.
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    We work both letters in exactly the same way.
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    Have fun and happy twisting :)
Title:
Letter Б or Ъ Balloon Twisting Russian ABC
Description:

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

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English
Duration:
03:49
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