Abstract: A bow making apparatus enables the formation of a puffy type bow and includes a top section having two longitudinal projecting tines or fingers emanating from a common base and positioned above a relatively congruent bottom member also having two projecting tines oriented in the same plane and underlying the tines of said top section, with said top and bottom members positioned one above the other and separated by a predetermined amount, manifesting a ribbon collection location. The tine configuration of said members permits the looping of a ribbon about said tines in directions parallel and transverse to said plane.