If there are many old newspapers at home, you do not need to hurry to throw them out. Paper can be used to make items or any practical products in everyday life. A tray of newspaper tubes will combine two qualities at once: benefits and decorativeness. Methods for its manufacture Consider in more detail in this article.
Features of working with tubes
The use of tubes from newspapers for the manufacture of wicker products is increasingly gaining popularity. First of all, this is due to the convenience of working with the material and the minimum time and finance costs. The preparation of wooden branches requires certain skills.
The convenience of working with it will depend on the quality of wood and the correctness of its processing. In addition, the house will require a lot of free space for the workpiece of the required number of branches and their proper preparation.
Newspaper sheets will not require a lot of time and some special skills - twist the tubes are quite easy of them.
Such material is very convenient for working nice masters of weaving. Also, the paper gives a wide space for the realization of interesting ideas. Tubes can be painted in different colors.
The paper is easily beaten and therefore from it you can weigh the trays of a wide variety of forms: round, oval, openwork and rectangular. Pipes, if necessary, can be increasing, making them quite long. Thus, it is possible to make objects of various sizes, whether it is a large tray or small handles for it.
The main disadvantage of the application of newspaper tubes is the bad quality of strength and water resistance. It is possible to partially correct this minus with the help of additional processing of the tubes and the finished product with special compositions.
Required tools and materials
Before proceeding with the main work, you need to prepare a workplace and all the necessary materials and tools. First of all, a stack of newspapers will be required, while they should not be too old and already yellowed, as well as crumpled and torn. In addition to newspaper leaves, the following will be needed:
- Stationery knife and scissors;
- Plywood or several sheets of thick cardboard for the manufacture of the bottom;
- paints and varnishes;
- adhesive compositions;
- line and simple pencil;
- brushes for staining of rods and applying glue;
- clothespins for fixing paper vine during weaving;
- Large needle with a diameter of 1 to 1.5 mm.
In the quality of the adhesive composition, the construction glue PVA is best. For the manufacture of newspaper tubes, universal adhesive composition is usually taken for any construction types, for example, titanium glue.
Preparation of newspapers
The next step in the manufacture of the tray will be a blank of newspaper tubes. Newspapers must be cut on strips. The length and width of them will depend on the size of the future tray. You can also divide the newspaper both along and across. Consider one of the examples of the manufacture of tubes step by step.
- The large sheet is cut in the collapse.
- The resulting paper sheets are cut across the narrow side to equal parts, a slightly more than 5 cm wide. The required number of bands will also depend on the magnitude of the tray, which will be manufactured. You may need about 90 tubes, but it is better to harvest the rods with a margin. In addition, the tubes will be required for the manufacture of the frame.
- The edge of one of the long sides of the sliced piece of the newspaper is labeled with adhesive composition. The needle is put on the lower corner of the side, on which glue was not applied, under a small angle of 30 degrees and begin to shore the newspaper.
- Of the resulting tube neatly pull the needle. You can once again wash the sticking angle with glue and it is good to press it to the resulting twist.
The same manipulations must be done with other strips of the newspaper. If you need to lengthen the rods, then for this one tube is inserted by 1.5 cm to another from the other side where the hole has the largest diameter.
Next you need to paint the rod and give them to dry.
As a dye, it is possible to use a wood moron or acrylic paint.
Making master class
Welcome tray can only after the basis and framework will be prepared. The base can be plywood or cardboard. A piece of the desired shape and size is cut out of the material. If cardboard is used as a base, then two identical pieces will be required.
On the cut sheet around the perimeter put labels with a simple pencil through each centimeter. Next, small rods are glued to marked places that will serve as a frame. For better clutch of materials after sticking the tube recommended Additionally fix with clothespins.
Instead of clothespins, you can use any heavy flat items as a press. Another fixation option is to do at the bottom of the hole along the edges, to turn the tubes in them and also attach to glue. In the case of the use of a square or rectangular base, you do not need to forget to mount tubes on all four corners.
If cardboard was used for the base, then to the side to which the rods are attached, glued a second piece of base. After the product dry well, the tubes are strung upstairs and you can begin to the weaving of the tray. The easiest way to weave him "eight".
In the process of weaving, you can build up the tubes, winning one to another. The best connection place is to blame glue. It is also recommended to use the adhesive mixture for better fixation of the tubes in the place where each row ends. Optionally, you can combine several techniques of weaving and use the rods of different colors.
The height of the tray walls can also be selected individually, based on considerations of the aesthetic appearance of the product and the convenience of using it. When all rows are wetted, sticking sides of the frame should be trimmed with scissors, leaving at least 1 cm, which must be adjusted and glued to the tray walls. Places of gluing are also recommended to pinch clothespins for better fixation of materials. Then it will only be left to re-organize the finished product and give it strength.
On how to make a tray of newspapers, see below.
Registration
The finished product must be given aesthetic appearance and strength. Despite the fact that the tubes from newspapers were painted in advance, the tray will need to be primed. The base of the ground mixture can use PVA glue or varnish on an acrylic basis. Both varnish, and glue mixed with conventional water in equal amounts.
It is practical to produce primer from varnish, as the composition based on PVA has beggg to turn yellowing on the product. The primer mixture is applied to the surface of the tray from the inner and the outside. Next, the primer must dry, after which the product is covered with varnish. The coating can be both glossy and matte, depending on the selected composition.
For the finishing coating, the composition is suitable on an acrylic basis, which is applied in two layers. When choosing a tool, it is best to repel from how the finished product will be used. Coffee and tea trays will be constantly exposed to shed various drinks on them.
If it is necessary to give the tray of good water repellent properties, it is best to apply a parquet or bath on it.
