After reading the next newspaper or magazine, we put them in a pile, then throw them into the garbage or a box for waste paper. Many do not suspect that this is an invaluable material for handicraft people and this garbage can make beautiful and useful things.
How to weave a basket of newspapers?
If you want to learn the technique of weaving from newspapers, then we will help you learn the basics of this art from the weaving of baskets from newspapers.
Weaving from newspapers on technology is no different from weaving from a vine, only instead of it we weave from tubes made from a sheet of newspaper or magazine. This is done like this:
- 1/2 of a sheet of newspaper is tightly wound on the knitting needle at an angle of 45 degrees, so that one end of it is slightly wider than the other. To prevent the tubes from turning around, a drop of paste or PVA is dripping onto the corner of the sheet. Leave to dry. If you make pipes from magazines, catalogs, then the covers and illustrations go to the racks of the product.
- The tubes are laid out on a table and rolled with a rolling pin or a bottle. Fold the tubes, so that when weaving them, it would be easy to push them under each other.
- Blanks before weaving paint water-soluble paints - watercolors, gouache, dyes for hb, wood stains, but you can paint and finished product in several layers. In this respect, excellent material for weaving is the sheets of documentation, which are thrown out of the offices and institutions in tons. The reverse side of it is a clean sheet, it's easy to paint.
- Insert 2 tubes into each other to the desired length, if not to be missed, then during the weaving can add more.
- Pick up the object of the shape and height, which will be a basket - a pan, a bucket, cans of mayonnaise, hard rectangular boxes. Take an odd number of sticks, for example 9, and mark the middle with 4 pencils. Cross the sticks among themselves in the middle - a cross is obtained. To each side of the cross add on the stick, pushing it in staggered order through the tubes lying on the table. This is the bottom of the bottom for a round basket. If the basket is conceived to be rectangular, then the sticks are substituted only from one side - in length.
- In the crossed cross, it turned out from 2 sides on 4 tail, from 2 sides to 5. Holding the workpiece with the left hand, the cross begins to braid one of the 5 sticks, correcting and pulling it so that it lies in a circle. At the same time, distribute the rod-rays uniformly in the form of a sun. We spin round to the size of the bottom of the mold.
- They put a heavy load on the wicker circle. Sticks curl up around the shape, build up thick, durable tubules. Once again, evenly distributed in shape and tied with an elastic band, so that they do not move during work.
- Begin from the bottom to braid the racks with a simple weaving: stick a stick through the front of the rack and in front of the racks.
- And then the most interesting begins - the process of creativity, the flight of your imagination.
- Ruffles of the rack can be in different ways: pigtail, half-cut, changing step, making skips. Czech weaving from newspapers on an oblique or rope makes it possible to make beautiful patterns at the beginning of the weaving along the vertical and finish by beautifying the top with a beautiful
solid dandy. - Weaving of vases from newspapers for flowers is the same, only to make the vase turn out figured at a certain height you need to change the shape.
- To close the edges, one must turn the sticks one after the other inward. Then, by crocheting, take a few rows from the inside and stick a stick for them. Crop excess.
- The finished product is painted, covered with acrylic lacquer and admired by the creation of their hands.
We will be happy if these lessons of weaving from newspapers help you make your home cozy and beautiful.