Weaving baskets, boxes, souvenir boxes made of newspaper tubes - a popular appearance of needlework among creative masters. This occupation corresponds to the modern environmental trend. When weaving crafts from newspaper tubes, the second life is given.
What will required?
The advantage is that the creation of caskets from newspaper tubes requires small costs in comparison with other types of needlework. Raw materials are available and cheap. Need to prepare the following tools and materials:
- many tubes from newspapers;
- scissors or knife for cutting paper;
- Long wooden thin wand or knitting needles;
- PVA glue, "moment" or silicone;
- Morish color;
- paint for painting paper;
- casket shape;
- Bilpets for the bottom and the lid of cardboard, wood or plastic;
- Varnish for finishing.
The first stage in the work is a blank of the tube. Depending on the size of the casket created, 200-400 tubes are made from the newspaper. For the manufacture of the tube, the standard deployed sheet of the newspaper cut across the font to 4 parts. It turns out 4 strips of about 10 cm wide. To twist the tube, impose a wand or a knitting of the cutting angle under 30-45 °.
You need twist, tightly pressing paper to a stick so that the tube does not work out. Glue the corner, remove the wand. The tube is ready.
Collect the workpiece in accordance with the selected design box. Some craftsmen weave a monophonic casket using the billets of the same color. You can decorate the product with stripes from a contrasting tube. A cheerful multi-colored box will succeed in unpainted tubes, twisted from strips of a colored newspaper. For staining, various methods use.
Such materials will be required:
- Color Morid;
- Kolker from the construction store;
- White impregnation of wood;
- acrylic enamel, water-based ground;
- acrylic paint;
- Wide brush.
Water based funds are used. When staining, the verse does not blame the font on the tubes. Therefore, you first need to be primed so that they acquire white color. The composition for treating the tubes: 100 ml of water + 100 ml of primer acrylic + 2 tbsp. l. acrylic varnish + 2 tbsp. l. Acrylic enamel. Processing this mixture of the workpiece with a brush. It turns out perfect white color, the letters are completely painted. If you need another color, you can additionally be covered with color acrylic paint.
When staining, the vessel prepares such a mixture: the simulator is diluted with water to the desired consistency and mixed with varnish. A 1 tablespoon of acrylic varnish is added to 0.5 liters.
This solution fixes the dye and gives the elasticity of the tubes. Also for processing billets use a kolker from a construction store or white impregnation on wood. After dyeing the tube, you can dry the hairdryer. But they must remain slightly wet, which is comfortable when weaving.
How to Eust?
Weave the box with your own hands from newspaper tubes - a fascinating occupation, but requires certain skills.
First you need to decide on the shape of the product from the newspaper, pick up the subject of the desired form for the template. If the box is round, the shape will serve a round pan or kettle.
It will stand in the center of the product during weaving and maintain the form. If a square or rectangular box is woven, a box is selected the same form.
Crafts for beginners step-by-step
An important part in weaving is a dryer tube need dry, and the working tubes need to be moistened so that they become elastic. For beginner craftsmen, the master class of weaving boxes with a lid and without it step by step will be useful.
- Rodyshko for the product can be soaked. But it is easier to make from solid cardboard, plastic or wood. In needlework stores ready-made dyshki with perforation. Holes in the bottom are located at a distance of 1.5-2 cm.
- Take the tube, bend it in half and insert into 2 holes of the bottom. In this way, all holes are filled. These tubes will be racks around which weaving are made.
- Stop the next tube in half and throw on the rack by the bottom of the bottom, while the cross. The rack will be wrapped in a working tube.
- Start weaving the simplest way "Rope". The upper part of the working tube is started for the subsequent rack from the inside, and the lower part worst rack from the front side.
- When the tube ends, it is produced - the next tube is inserted with a sharp end into the previous one and lengthens the working blank.
- The "rope" method is usually the lower part of the casket, 4 rows. It will be the edging of the bottom. At this stage of weaving, a shape blank is inserted into the product (pan, kettle, etc.) to maintain the product.
- The middle part can be soared with a more complex pattern, using numerous weaving schemes. These are the patterns of "Cite", "Vintage", "Cross", a chess pattern and many others.
- For beauty, the product is changing the color of the tubes, then the box will turn out with the pattern.
- If you add another tube to work and weigh the three, calling them for each third rack, it turns out another pattern.
- The final stage is the bending of the rags at the top of the product. First, get the racks outward. To do this, we start each rack for the subsequent and lower it down. Then beate them inside through holes, fix there and crop excess. The cropped ends of the racks or working tubes is glued inside with glue and fix the clothespin.
- To pull the working tubes, the craftsmen use a knitting crochet if weaving dense and racks are located close to each other.
Weaving with a lid.
If the product is with a lid, it needs to be performed in the same way as the bottom. But the racks are first horizontal, without lifting them up. First weave the "rope" flat rows around the cover of the cover. When the desired diameter of the cover is reached, the operating tubes are cut and lined. Then make a bending. This is a side cover. To do this, it is necessary to raise the racks - to hook each for the next rack and raise. So rises alternately all racks. Connect the operating tubes and weigh the bending "rope".
Convenient covers with an inner side when the cover does not bite the product from above, but attached inside. To create a side, the lid to the desired diameter do not weave, but double the number of racks.
Turn the wrong one to him and bring each second rack up. Support the lid from the remaining horizontal racks to the desired size and cut them. Inner side of weighing horizontal racks, adding 2 operating tubes. Weave 3-4 rows - and the side is ready. Crop and secure surplus tubes, beatel racks.
When the aircraft is ready, it is covered with varnish for the fortress. Decorate the cover in the technique of decoupage or scrapbooking. Arrange the bottom of the additional detail, covered with cloth. Decoration of the box depends on creative fancy masters. Rodyshko rectangular or square boxes weave with a special machine for weaving. For this purpose, the technique of "Sitzen" weaving with one working tube.
Beautiful examples
Wicker products not only adorn the interior, but also perform practical functions. Lingerie is stored in large baskets and boxes. In small can be stored spices. In the box book, it is convenient to store documents or decorations.
The quality and beauty of the crafts depends on the experience and skills of the masters. Large braided baskets are convenient for storing yarn clubs. Wovening boxes with an additional element inside are suitable for storing sewing supplies. This is a flat blank with chopsticks, which are rolled through the thread coils.
Good wicker products in the form of original souvenirs of various forms. For skillful hands, there will be no difficulty to apply the casket in the form of an apple, melon, mushroom.
Popular heart-shaped caskets. Dysyshko for this box carved in the shape of a heart of solid cardboard or plywood. Additionally make the decoration for it to close the ends of the glued racks. Weave with any pattern up, as follows the heart shape. The cover for this box is made similar to the bottom. Pull the workpiece in one of the ways. A casket in the form of a heart is desirable to decorate with flowers, ribbons, beads and many others, for which the fantasy craftsmen.
How to weave the casket with your own hands, look in the video.