Weaving newspaper tubes for beginners: step-by-step workshops
Weaving from a rod is a rather ancient craft, with the help of which various household items were made. In large modern cities, it is problematic to get a real vine, because many needlewomen switched to weaving from newspaper tubes, which, with proper skills, proper twisting, staining, are indistinguishable from a natural vine. With the help of such affordable, cheap material, various decorations for the interior are made, including holiday, decorative kitchen containers, children's toys and souvenirs.
In working with newspaper tubes, the same techniques are used as when weaving from vines, straws. People were engaged in weaving even before they learned how to process wood and metals. Such material was used to make baskets for fishing, simple pieces of furniture of an ancient dwelling, fences for small pets. In Russia, baskets were often woven for picking mushrooms, berries, huge baskets, cradles, bread bins and bast shoes. Birch bark was also used.
The first to invent paper weaving was in the eastern countries: China, India, Korea, when paper was no longer too expensive, and the vine was inaccessible to a city dweller. In Europe, the countries of the former Union, such a hobby has become popular recently, but has already won the hearts of many hand-made fans. The main advantage of such needlework is that even a child will succeed in weaving from paper tubes - they are more malleable than a vine and not as fragile as straws.
Newspaper vine preparation
Material for weaving should first be prepared, you will need:
newspaper or magazine sheets;
glue stick or PVA;
knitting needle;
scissors or clerical knife;
acrylic paints or stains in the form of a spray;
rubber or fabric gloves;
transparent acrylic varnish in a spray can;
corrugated cardboard or ordinary.
How to twist the tubes
What you need to do to get a "paper vine":
newsprint is cut into strips six to nine cm wide. - the newspaper is folded with an "accordion", cut into folds;
then the sheet is tightly wound on a needle diagonally, starting from the corner;
when the strip ends, the corner must be greased with glue and fixed;
one end of the resulting tube will always be slightly thicker than the other, which allows you to increase the length to infinity by inserting the tube into the tube. If everything is done correctly, the mount comes out very durable, and the seam is completely invisible.
Add colors
Newspaper tubes can be painted in any color, but the most popular option is a coloring that mimics a real vine. To make a box, casket, basket or paper toy seem “real”, the material for it is painted with alcohol or water stain. There are many shades of stain - dark and light walnut, stained and bleached oak, as well as rosewood, teak, pine, mahogany, larch, chestnut, cherry, alder, ebony.
To make the color uniform, coloring is done very quickly - with a brush, sponge, spray or by immersion in a container with a dye. Suitable colors are chosen empirically - different paper requires different dyeing times. Dry the tubules vertically by inserting it into a jar or glass, spreading it out on a fine grid. After drying, the color changes slightly - if it is too pale, the details are painted again.
You can stain newspaper tubes with anything you like - brilliant green, iodine, hair dye, gouache, food coloring, acrylic. To make the color bright, uniform, and the newspaper text was not noticeable, the tubes are painted with white or gray paint, and later - in any suitable color.
If the stain is too dark, it is diluted with water, and when the product is planned to be made completely in the same color, without contrasting inserts, it is easier to paint the finished structure immediately.
Ways, weaving techniques
There are many techniques for weaving from paper rods:
simple - work is done with one or two tubes, each element of the base should be enveloped or through one;
spiral torsion - the object is carefully bent around with two rods, slightly shifting in each next row;
layered or fabric - repeats the structure of the fabric, is best suited for creating products of a round shape, the frame is enveloped either front or back;
spiral - is made around the frame rods, the first row is performed at an angle of 45 degrees, the empty space below is filled later;
rope and “pigtail” - help significantly strengthen the base, decorate the finished product in the area of the bottom or top edge;
openwork - the most complex, it combines various options - "chess", braids, arcs, harnesses, etc.
What weave from newspaper vines
With proper processing using varnish, PVA glue, a newspaper construction is able to gain strength sufficient for the manufacture of rather large items. Old furniture is braided with paper tubes, it’s easy to make a house for a cat or a small dog, a stand for a potted plant, a basket for needlework, a napkin on a table, an interior figurine or a whole “sculpture”. The cradle for the baby, a little table, a high chair, a rack for toys of a two-year-old child is also easy to make from newspaper tubes - this will temporarily save on children's furniture.
Decor for the kitchen: candy cans, bread baskets, much more
In the creation of kitchen comfort, wicker gizmos will also help. Making candy cans, bread baskets, stands for jars with condiments, begins with weaving the bottom. It can be round, square or rectangular, openwork or solid.
How is this done in stages:
to make a dense bottom, three ducts are taken, three more are laid crosswise on them. Another cross is laid on the resulting structure, crossing the lower one;
weave should be two tubes that go around each "twig" or two or three at once;
in another embodiment, the bottom is a blank of two pieces of cardboard: racks are attached to one, the other is located inside a future basket or bread box;
the longer the rods, the larger the product will be able to produce, but so that it has a neat appearance, the tubes are harvested in advance, and do not grow in the process;
so that the future candy store has an even shape, they braid some container - a jar, a box, a saucepan, it is also important to maintain equal distances between the rods;
when the desired height - three to five cm is achieved, the working rods are cut or bent to form laces, the main ones are flattened, hidden;
the candy canister is ready, and in order to make a bread box in the same way, you will need to make a base with higher sides and a lid, five to eight mm in diameter. more so that it is easy to put on top.
The finished product is decorated with decoupage napkins, painted, varnished.
Openwork easter decoration
The main Easter attributes are Easter cakes, wreaths, eggs in nests. An interesting idea for designing an Easter table is a chicken basket. The basis is weaved from 12-18 rods, in any convenient way, but when the required height is reached, several tubes are cut and hidden. From the rest, the head and neck of the chicken, its tail, and basket handle are alternately formed. If desired, wings and paws are woven separately, which are glued in suitable places. Beak, eyes, scallop are attached to the finished product, and along the side of the basket - thin lace.
Eggs woven from newspapers are placed in a chicken basket or used as a standalone decor. As a basis, empty, but whole shells from chicken eggs are used. Weaving begins with three to five twigs, bending them for each other. At the end, the twigs are cut, and the egg is painted.
If you attach legs, wings, eyes, beak, scallop to the finished egg, you will get a cute chicken.
New Year's decor
New Year's holiday is decorated with a wicker Christmas tree. For it, you need a base - a cardboard cone of a suitable size, which is braided in a spiral or fabric weaving. After the product is painted green, pasted over with white lace, paper snowflakes, sparkles, rain.
A wonderful Christmas ball is also twisted from paper twigs. It is made of two halves, obtained by braiding a ball of a suitable size. Connect them by inserting the racks of one half into the other.To make the ball smooth, shape it manually. On top you need to make a loop for hanging, and then paint the ball with shiny paint from a spray can, tie a bow or paste over with sequins, beads.
In a similar way a cone is woven - its shape resembles a rhombus. The basis for the New Year's bell will be a bell made of clay, cardboard, metal. The finished design is also decorated with a bow, fabric flower, polymer clay berries.
Vase weaving
To create a real flower vase, newspaper twigs braid any suitable container - a bottle, a jar, a simple vase without decor. It is woven in a simple, spiral or fabric way. At the end of the work, the rods are cut off, fixed with glue on the wrong side, the vase is covered with paints or varnish. If the vase is large enough, for example, a floor one, and it is planned to remove the base from it, then the structure is additionally impregnated with PVA glue. The finished product is decorated with autumn dried flowers, fresh flowers, butterflies, and other decorations made of paper and colored ribbons.
Other decorative elements
The entrance hall will be decorated with an owl keeper. Its base will be a deep plate - first a standard round “bottom” is woven, after half the tubes are cut, and from the rest, braiding a plate, form a pocket. The contours of the pocket and the entire base circle are braided with a “rod” bend. After that, two eyes are twisted from the twigs, a kind of “glasses” around them, a beak and a twig, on which an owl seems to be sitting. The required number of hooks are formed from thin wire, which are fastened along the lower edge of the product.
Animal figurines are also a very popular decor, especially for children. Toy baskets in the form of seals and swans, pencil hares and lamb for storing hairpins will originally decorate the children's interior.
From flexible colored tubes it is easy to weave a whole set of toy furniture for a dollhouse,and the bookmark will come out of four or six thin flattened tubes intertwined with each other. Of the tubes painted with yellow varnish, the frame for the mirror is made in the form of sunlight, and the stand for umbrellas is convenient and practical. If there are whole soles from old shoes, “home bast shoes” with heels are created, and a wicker shopping bag or clutch bag will complement a simple summer look - any patterns are allowed.
All products made from newsprint or magazine paper are afraid of water, are deformed even with minimal impact, therefore it is not recommended to use them in wet rooms.
Conclusion
Original hand-made articles from newspapers, old magazines will decorate the interior of any holiday - both for children and adults. The use of simple techniques based on the ancient art of weaving is accessible even to children, and very detailed step-by-step master classes with schemes for beginners can be easily found on the Internet or in special literature on needlework. The abundance of all kinds of patterns will create unique masterpieces.
Weaving from a rod is a rather ancient craft, with the help of which various household items were made. In large modern cities, it is problematic to get a real vine, because many needlewomen switched to weaving from newspaper tubes, which, with proper skills, proper twisting, staining, are indistinguishable from a natural vine. With the help of such affordable, cheap material, various decorations for the interior are made, including holiday, decorative kitchen containers, children's toys and souvenirs.
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History of weaving
In working with newspaper tubes, the same techniques are used as when weaving from vines, straws. People were engaged in weaving even before they learned how to process wood and metals. Such material was used to make baskets for fishing, simple pieces of furniture of an ancient dwelling, fences for small pets. In Russia, baskets were often woven for picking mushrooms, berries, huge baskets, cradles, bread bins and bast shoes. Birch bark was also used.
The first to invent paper weaving was in the eastern countries: China, India, Korea, when paper was no longer too expensive, and the vine was inaccessible to a city dweller. In Europe, the countries of the former Union, such a hobby has become popular recently, but has already won the hearts of many hand-made fans. The main advantage of such needlework is that even a child will succeed in weaving from paper tubes - they are more malleable than a vine and not as fragile as straws.
Newspaper vine preparation
Material for weaving should first be prepared, you will need:
How to twist the tubes
What you need to do to get a "paper vine":
Add colors
Newspaper tubes can be painted in any color, but the most popular option is a coloring that mimics a real vine. To make a box, casket, basket or paper toy seem “real”, the material for it is painted with alcohol or water stain. There are many shades of stain - dark and light walnut, stained and bleached oak, as well as rosewood, teak, pine, mahogany, larch, chestnut, cherry, alder, ebony.
To make the color uniform, coloring is done very quickly - with a brush, sponge, spray or by immersion in a container with a dye. Suitable colors are chosen empirically - different paper requires different dyeing times. Dry the tubules vertically by inserting it into a jar or glass, spreading it out on a fine grid. After drying, the color changes slightly - if it is too pale, the details are painted again.
You can stain newspaper tubes with anything you like - brilliant green, iodine, hair dye, gouache, food coloring, acrylic. To make the color bright, uniform, and the newspaper text was not noticeable, the tubes are painted with white or gray paint, and later - in any suitable color.
Ways, weaving techniques
There are many techniques for weaving from paper rods:
What weave from newspaper vines
With proper processing using varnish, PVA glue, a newspaper construction is able to gain strength sufficient for the manufacture of rather large items. Old furniture is braided with paper tubes, it’s easy to make a house for a cat or a small dog, a stand for a potted plant, a basket for needlework, a napkin on a table, an interior figurine or a whole “sculpture”. The cradle for the baby, a little table, a high chair, a rack for toys of a two-year-old child is also easy to make from newspaper tubes - this will temporarily save on children's furniture.
Decor for the kitchen: candy cans, bread baskets, much more
In the creation of kitchen comfort, wicker gizmos will also help. Making candy cans, bread baskets, stands for jars with condiments, begins with weaving the bottom. It can be round, square or rectangular, openwork or solid.
How is this done in stages:
Openwork easter decoration
The main Easter attributes are Easter cakes, wreaths, eggs in nests. An interesting idea for designing an Easter table is a chicken basket. The basis is weaved from 12-18 rods, in any convenient way, but when the required height is reached, several tubes are cut and hidden. From the rest, the head and neck of the chicken, its tail, and basket handle are alternately formed. If desired, wings and paws are woven separately, which are glued in suitable places. Beak, eyes, scallop are attached to the finished product, and along the side of the basket - thin lace.
Eggs woven from newspapers are placed in a chicken basket or used as a standalone decor. As a basis, empty, but whole shells from chicken eggs are used. Weaving begins with three to five twigs, bending them for each other. At the end, the twigs are cut, and the egg is painted.
New Year's decor
New Year's holiday is decorated with a wicker Christmas tree. For it, you need a base - a cardboard cone of a suitable size, which is braided in a spiral or fabric weaving. After the product is painted green, pasted over with white lace, paper snowflakes, sparkles, rain.
A wonderful Christmas ball is also twisted from paper twigs. It is made of two halves, obtained by braiding a ball of a suitable size. Connect them by inserting the racks of one half into the other.To make the ball smooth, shape it manually. On top you need to make a loop for hanging, and then paint the ball with shiny paint from a spray can, tie a bow or paste over with sequins, beads.
In a similar way a cone is woven - its shape resembles a rhombus. The basis for the New Year's bell will be a bell made of clay, cardboard, metal. The finished design is also decorated with a bow, fabric flower, polymer clay berries.
Vase weaving
To create a real flower vase, newspaper twigs braid any suitable container - a bottle, a jar, a simple vase without decor. It is woven in a simple, spiral or fabric way. At the end of the work, the rods are cut off, fixed with glue on the wrong side, the vase is covered with paints or varnish. If the vase is large enough, for example, a floor one, and it is planned to remove the base from it, then the structure is additionally impregnated with PVA glue. The finished product is decorated with autumn dried flowers, fresh flowers, butterflies, and other decorations made of paper and colored ribbons.
Other decorative elements
The entrance hall will be decorated with an owl keeper. Its base will be a deep plate - first a standard round “bottom” is woven, after half the tubes are cut, and from the rest, braiding a plate, form a pocket. The contours of the pocket and the entire base circle are braided with a “rod” bend. After that, two eyes are twisted from the twigs, a kind of “glasses” around them, a beak and a twig, on which an owl seems to be sitting. The required number of hooks are formed from thin wire, which are fastened along the lower edge of the product.
Animal figurines are also a very popular decor, especially for children. Toy baskets in the form of seals and swans, pencil hares and lamb for storing hairpins will originally decorate the children's interior.
From flexible colored tubes it is easy to weave a whole set of toy furniture for a dollhouse,and the bookmark will come out of four or six thin flattened tubes intertwined with each other. Of the tubes painted with yellow varnish, the frame for the mirror is made in the form of sunlight, and the stand for umbrellas is convenient and practical. If there are whole soles from old shoes, “home bast shoes” with heels are created, and a wicker shopping bag or clutch bag will complement a simple summer look - any patterns are allowed.
Conclusion
Original hand-made articles from newspapers, old magazines will decorate the interior of any holiday - both for children and adults. The use of simple techniques based on the ancient art of weaving is accessible even to children, and very detailed step-by-step master classes with schemes for beginners can be easily found on the Internet or in special literature on needlework. The abundance of all kinds of patterns will create unique masterpieces.