strips 16 and 18 is folded over to crimp the center and tacked together in the back as illustrated in fig8 and 9 forming the basic configuration of bow 24 in order to complete bow 24 the wing or ends of bow 24 are grasped and spread apart as shown by the double headed arrows in fig1 and tacked at locations 26 to maintain the fanning which is accomplished by the spreading action just described in another embodiment of this invention shown in fig1 to 15 three strips of material can be employed using a foundation strip 32 and a pair of nesting strips 34 and 36 in this embodiment nesting strips 34 and 36 are reversed so that their backs are facing the back of strip 32 so that all the curls will be exposed on the visible side of the bow producing a unique effect of course if desired nesting strip 36 could be facing toward the back of strip 32 to complete construction of the bow from the strips shown in fig1 the assembly would be folded back as in the case shown for the embodiment of fig2 11 and and subsequent steps followed in the manner previously described the ribbon bows hereinabove described may be used in a variety of ways as seen in fig1 bow 24 or any of its other embodiments may be mounted on a headband 38 or as seen in.