Weaving from newspaper tubes for beginners: step-by-step master classes

Weaving from a rod is a rather ancient craft, with the help of which various household items were made. It is difficult to get a real vine in big modern cities, because many needlewomen switched to weaving from newspaper tubes, which, with proper skills, proper twisting, dyeing, are outwardly indistinguishable from the natural vine. With the help of such an affordable, cheap material, various decorations for the interior are made, including festive, decorative kitchen containers, children's toys and souvenirs.

History of weaving

In working with newspaper tubes, the same methods are used as when weaving straw from a rod. People engaged in weaving even before they learned to work wood and metals. Baskets for fishing, simple pieces of furniture from an ancient dwelling, fencing for small domestic animals were made of such material. In Russia, baskets were often woven around for picking up mushrooms, berries, huge boxes, baby cradles, bread boxes and sandals. Birch bark was also used.

The first weave of paper came up in eastern countries: China, India, Korea, when the paper has ceased to be too expensive, and the vine - inaccessible to the urban dweller. In Europe, the countries of the former Soviet Union, such a hobby has become popular quite recently, but it has already won the hearts of many fans of hand-made. The main advantage of such handicrafts is that even a child’s weaves out of paper tubes - they are more pliable than wicker and not as fragile as straws.

Newspaper Preparation

Material for weaving should first be prepared, you will need:

• newspaper or magazine sheets;
• glue stick or PVA;
• knitting needle;
• scissors or office knife;
• acrylic paints or spray paint;
• rubber or cloth gloves;
• clear acrylic lacquer in a can;
• corrugated or plain.

How to twist the straws

What you need to do to get "paper vine":

• newsprint is cut into strips six to nine centimeters wide. - the newspaper is folded "accordion", cut into folds;
• then the sheet is tightly screwed onto the needle diagonally, starting from the corner;
• when the strip is over, the corner needs to be greased and fixed;
• one tip 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 done correctly, the mount comes out very strong, and the seam is completely invisible.

Add colors

Newspaper tubes can be painted in any color scheme, but the most popular option is a color that imitates a real vine. To make a box, a box, a basket or a toy made of paper seem “real”, the material for it is painted with alcohol or water stain. There are many shades of wood stain - dark and light walnut, stained and bleached oak, as well as rosewood, teak, pine, mahogany, larch, chestnut, cherry, alder, ebony.

In order to get a uniform color, the color is produced very quickly - by brush, sponge, spray or by immersion in a container with a dye. Suitable colors are chosen empirically - different paper requires different staining times. Dry the tubes 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, paint the details again.

You can paint newspaper tubes with anything - green paint, iodine, hair dye, gouache, food dyes, acrylics. To make the color bright, uniform, and the newspaper text was not noticeable, the tubes are painted in white or gray, and later in any suitable color scheme.

If the stain is too dark, it is diluted with water, and when the product is planned to be made completely the same color, without contrasting inserts, it is easier to paint the finished structure immediately.

Weaving techniques

There are many techniques of weaving of paper rods:

• simple - the work is done with one or two tubes, each element of the base or around one should be bent;
• spiral torsion - the subject is carefully twisted around with two rods, slightly shifting in each subsequent row;
• layered or fabric - repeats the structure of the fabric, the best way to create products of a round shape, the frame bends around the front, then back;
• spiral - made around frame rods, the first row is made at an angle of 45 degrees, the empty space at the bottom is filled later;
• rope and "pigtail" - help to significantly strengthen the base, to decorate the finished product in the area of ​​the bottom or upper edge;
• openwork - the most difficult, here are combined various options - "chess", braids, arcs, plaits, etc.

What weave from the newspaper of the vine

With proper processing with varnish, PVA glue, the construction of newspapers is able to gain strength sufficient to make rather large objects. Old furniture is wrapped in paper tubes; it is easy to make a house for a cat or a small dog, a pot plant stand, a basket for needlework, a napkin on a table, an interior figure or a whole sculpture. A cradle for the baby, a table, a chair, a rack for a two-year-old child’s toys are also easy to make from newspaper tubes - this will temporarily save on children's furniture.

Decor for the kitchen: candy dishes, bread baskets, much more

In the creation of kitchen comfort wicker things will also help. Making candy, bread basket, stand for jars with seasonings, begins with weaving the bottom. It can be round, square or rectangular, openwork or solid.

How this is done in stages:

• To make a dense bottom, three tubes are taken, three more are crossed on them crosswise. On the resulting structure fits another cross, crossing the bottom;
• 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: one is attached to the rack, the other is located inside the future basket or breadbasket;
• the longer the twigs, the larger the product will be able to make, but in order to have a neat appearance, the tubes are harvested in advance, and not built up in the process;
• in order for the future candy bowl to have an even shape, they twist some capacity - a jar, a box, a pan, it is also important to keep equal distances between the twigs;
• when the desired height - three to five cm. has been reached, the workers rods are cut or bent to form laces, the main ones are flattened, hidden;
• The candy bowl 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 wear on top.

The finished product is decorated with napkins for decoupage, painted, varnished.

Openwork Easter decor

The main Easter attributes are kulich, wreaths, eggs in nests. An interesting idea for decorating an Easter table is a chicken basket. The basis of the weave of 12-18 twigs, in any convenient way, but when the required height is reached, several tubes are cut off and hidden. Of the rest, the chicken's head and neck, its tail, and the basket handle are alternately formed. If desired, wings and legs are woven separately, which are glued in suitable places. A beak, eyes, and a scallop are attached to the finished product, and a thin lace along the side of the basket.

Eggs woven from newspapers are placed in a basket-chicken or used as an independent decor. As a basis, empty but whole shells from chicken eggs are used. Weave begin with three or five rods, bending them behind each other. At the end the twigs are cut and the egg is painted.

If you attach legs, wings, eyes, beak, comb to the finished egg, you will get a cute chicken.

New Year's decor

New Year's holiday is decorated with a wicker tree. You will need a base for it - a cardboard cone of a suitable size, which is twisted in a spiral or with fabric weaving. After the product is painted green, pasted over with white lace, paper snowflakes, sparkles, rain.

Wonderful Christmas ball 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 even, the shape is given to it manually. Above you need to make a loop for hanging, then paint the ball with shiny paint from a can, tie a bow or paste over with sequins, beads.

A lump is woven in a similar way - 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, berries made of polymer clay.

Weaving VAZ

To create a real flower vase, newspaper sticks twist around any suitable container - a bottle, a jar, a simple vase without decor. Her weave in a simple, spiral or fabric way. At the end of the work, the twigs are cut off, fixed with glue on the seamy side, the vase is covered with paints or varnish. If the vase is large enough, for example, floor, and the base is planned to be removed from it, then the structure is additionally saturated with white glue. The finished product is decorated with autumn dried flowers, fresh flowers, butterflies, another paper decoration, color ribbons.

Other decorative items

The hall will be decorated with a housekeeper-owl. Its basis will be a deep plate — first, a standard round bottom is woven, after half of the tubules they are cut, and from the rest, weaving a plate, form a pocket. The contours of the pocket and the whole of the base circle are twisted by a “rod” bend. After the twigs, two eyes twist, a kind of "glasses" around them, a beak and a twig, on which an owl sits. The necessary number of hooks is formed from a thin wire, which are attached along the bottom edge of the product.

Animal figures are also a very popular decor, especially for a nursery. Baskets for toys in the form of cats and swans, pencil holders, hares and sheep for storing hairpins will decorate the children's interior in an original way.

It is easy to weave a whole set of toy furniture for a dollhouse from flexible colored tubes, and a bookmark will come out of four or six thin flattened tubes intertwined with each other. Framing for a mirror in the form of sunbeams is made of tubes stained with yellow varnish, and the umbrella stand is comfortable and practical. If there are whole soles from old shoes, homemade bast shoes are created on heels, and a woven shopping bag or clutch will complement a simple summer look - any ornaments are allowed.

All products made from newsprint or magazine paper are afraid of water, are deformed even with its minimum impact, therefore they are not recommended to be used in wet areas.

Conclusion

Original handicrafts from newspapers, old magazines, made with your own hands, will decorate the interior of any holiday - both children and adults. The use of simple techniques based on the ancient art of basket weaving is available even to children, and very detailed step-by-step master classes with schemes for beginners can be easily found on the Internet or in the special literature on needlework. The abundance of all kinds of patterns will allow you to create unique masterpieces.