Weaving baskets from newspaper tubes is an exciting activity

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:46

If you want to make a cute basket out of ordinary newsprint with your own hands, then prepare the necessary material, and - to work. Weaving baskets from newspapers is not difficult and very exciting.

For work we need: newspaper, cardboard, glue, scissors, acrylic paints or varnish, a knitting needle, protective gloves, brushes, a clean napkin and a dish for the shape of a future basket.

Weaving baskets from newspaper tubes

Weaving a product consists of several stages:

1. Cut a newspaper or magazine lengthwise into strips 6-8 cm wide. Let's make a lot of them.

2. We wind a piece of newspaper on the knitting needle as shown in the figure below. We start winding from one end of the knitting needle to the other.

3. Lubricate the corner of the tube with glue, cut off the excess. Carefully glue the end of the newspaper strip and pull the needle out of it. Let's put the blank on a clean napkin, and in the meantime we will make the next tube in the same way. In their manufacture, it is necessary to ensure that they are thin, and the ends havedifferent thicknesses (so that the end of one tube can fit into another).

4. Spiral weaving from newspaper tubes

Let's put our "vine" as shown in the figure below, and start weaving baskets from newspaper tubes.

We put the bent tube on top of the lower one, then we pass the next lower one through the bottom, braiding the tubes folded in a cross in a spiral, either from above or from below. If the length ends, you need to insert another tube into the free end and glue them together. In this way we will weave the bottom of the future basket. The extra ends of the tubes that we braided will be stretched between the woven tubes and glued to the bottom of the future basket around the perimeter. Then we put a basket mold (bowl, jug or something else) on the bottom blank and continue weaving baskets from newspaper tubes (now its side and its handles). To do this, we take new tubes and stretch them along the perimeter of the bottom so that around it a kind of fence is formed from newspaper tubes standing perpendicular to it. We braid this “fence” with newspaper tubes to the top of the basket. Excess pieces of vertical tubes, except for four, are braided along the top of the basket and glued to it. From the same four vertical ones we will make basket handles. The finished basket can be painted with acrylics or varnished.

You can make it in another way. For the bottom, you can use two cardboardrectangle (square, circle or oval), one of them is slightly larger than the other. Cover them with thick paper. Lubricate the larger rectangle around the perimeter with glue and glue a lot of paper tubes to it as shown in the figure below.

Glue a smaller rectangle on top. All glued tubes, except for the top right one, we bend up and fix them. On the lower left, we will weave baskets from newspaper tubes in a spiral.

We will stretch the tube between the vertical tubes on one side, then on the other. We lengthen the stretched "vine" by gluing the next one to it. You can not lengthen all the time, and after it is completely interwoven, glue the end to the basket. Weaving continues with the next tube.

To make the tubes stick more firmly, you can use clothespins.

The finished product can be varnished or painted.