How to Place Crystals on Your Dress?

Make your prom dress looks beautiful with the use of Swarovski crystals. How? Read here.

Swarovski crystals look amazing! They are widely used for costume jewellery and formal clothing embellishments. Did you know? You can accentuate your dresses and shoes by affixing crystals on them. Not sure? Well, here we have come up with the super creative use of Swarovski crystals on dress. But first of all, here is a brief yet interesting history of Swarovski Crystals.

A Brief History of Swarovski Crystals:

Swarovski crystals are named after Daniel Swarovski. He is said to invent a machine and a patent process to fabricate high quality of precision crystals at the end of 19th century. Later, Mr. Swarovski opened his company in Wattens, Austria with his three sons. The crystals were used in jewellery and fashion industries. It was 1913, when Swarovski launched new line of his crystals for the fashion industry. By the middle of 20th century, Swarovski crystals were created with the special process to produce colourful effects, which got an instant success. Over the years, his line of crystals were studded in the chandeliers being used at the sites like Metropolitan Opera, major museums around the World, and the castles owned by the European Monarchs. By 1960’s to the current years, crystals have come a long way to become the fashion of the mass culture.

How to Use Swarovski Crystals Creatively?

Swarovski Crystals

You can use Swarovski crystals to bling your accessories like shoes, sneakers, bridal accessories, decorative mobile cases and many more.

It is simple and fun as well.

Let’s start with the creative uses of Swarovski Crystals with your dress:

Give Your Dress A Creative Personal Touch:

Swarovski Crystal Dress

You can line up variety of Swarovski crystals to make your dress look like a marvellous masterpiece. And you can choose from thousands of designs. If you want to add a personal touch to your prom dress, you should choose hotfix crystals as they are the long lasting way for applying crystals to your dress. Here is just an example. You can utilize your creativity to come up with more brilliant designs for your dress.

We understand that you are doing it for the very first time. Therefore, make sure to choose the right shape, size and colour crystal that complements your dress.

How To Do It:

• Design the pattern on a paper first by making fine holes where you want to place the crystals.
• Place that paper on your dress and make the dots on the dress with a colour pencil through the cuts you just made.
• Heat your hotfix tool for ten minutes.
• Place the tool over the crystals you placed on your dress. The heat will affix the crystals permanently to your dress when the gum of the reverse side of the crystals melts.
• After that, leave it for few hours so that crystals can settle properly on the garment.

In the same way, you can use crystals on your sneakers, heels and other items.