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Tulip heads worked in purple acrylic yarn, each one closed into a goblet the way a real tulip sits before it opens. The stems are wire inside green yarn, so they bend and hold the bend, with a flat crocheted leaf set partway down. Purple is the tulip colour that has long carried admiration and royalty, which makes these easier to give than to explain. They need no water and they never drop a petal.
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SKU: CB-CRFW-TP-01Style Code: CB-CRFW-TPHSN Code: 70139900Region: NoidaState: Uttar pradesh
Curated by Crochet Boutique
Each piece is handcrafted, so slight variations in colour, texture and dimension are natural and celebrate its handmade origin.
Two stems is a small number on purpose. This is not a bouquet, it is a punctuation mark, and it works best somewhere a real arrangement would be too much.
The obvious home is a narrow-necked vase. A bud vase, a bottle, a jug with a small mouth, anything that holds two stems upright without them sliding apart. Because the wire core takes a bend and keeps it, you can set the two heads at different heights and slightly apart, which reads more like a plant and less like a pair of sticks. Straighten them later if you change your mind.
Scale matters more than colour here. The heads are small, so a tall shelf or a wide dining table will swallow them. Put them where people are close: a desk, a bedside table, a bathroom counter, a windowsill, a work-from-home corner that shows up on video calls. In a bookshelf they work laid in front of the spines rather than standing above them.
On colour, this purple is a warm magenta rather than a deep violet. It sits well against black, charcoal, raw wood, terracotta, and off-white. Against a strong blue or a red it fights. The green of the stems is a bright leaf green, not a muted sage, so a very muted interior will notice it.
Light is the one thing to think about. Acrylic yarn holds colour well, but months of hard direct sun on the same side will still lift it, so a windowsill that gets afternoon glare is not the best long-term spot. Rotate the stems occasionally if that is where they live.
Keeping them is simple. Dust with a dry makeup brush or a hairdryer on cool, low. If a head gets grubby, dab with a barely damp cloth and let it air dry fully, and reshape the goblet with your fingers while it is still slightly damp. Do not soak them, and keep them away from a hot stove, since acrylic is a synthetic fibre and will not tolerate heat.
Crochet flowers live or die on tension, and that is really what is going on in these two heads.
First the head. The maker starts with a small ring of stitches and works in a continuous spiral, adding stitches on some rounds to widen the cup and taking them away on later rounds to close it back in, so a flat disc becomes a goblet without any seam. The scalloped crown you can see at the top is the final round. The pucker at the base is where the spiral was drawn shut.
Second the tension. The hook used is smaller than the yarn would normally call for. That is the whole trick. It makes a dense, slightly stiff fabric that stands up on its own, which is why the head holds a tulip shape instead of slumping the way a loosely worked flower does.
Third the stem. A length of wire is wrapped tightly along its whole run in green yarn, tapering to a bare tip at the bottom, then pushed up into the base of the head so the bloom sits square.
Fourth the leaf. Each leaf is worked separately as a flat pointed shape with a raised spine down the middle, then joined to the stem partway down and bent outward by hand.
Made by the women artisans of the Crochet Boutique cluster in Noida, Uttar Pradesh.
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Crochet is a versatile textile craft that uses a hooked needle to loop yarn into intricate patterns. It creates clothing, accessories, home décor, and decorative pieces with unique textures and designs.
