Wicker vase from newspaper tubes - do-it-yourself decor

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

Homemade wicker vase will be a unique interior decoration and at the same time will be a functional fixture. You can make it yourself using improvised materials. The weaving technique is very simple and will not cause many problems in the learning process.

Where it can be used

A good wicker vase can have many uses. The most relevant and popular are the following options:

• Decorative use for indoor decoration. These are floor or desktop structures. A vase can be the basis for creating flower or fruit arrangements.
• Vases treated with special solutions can be used in bathrooms and kitchens. The containers can hold kitchen utensils, towels and other small items.
• Vases of original shapes can serve as receptacles for linen, threads, balls, children's toys. Can be used in hallways to store small items. In cellars and pantries, preservation can be stored in such devices.

The functionality of products can be greatly expanded if you come up with rules of use.

What is needed to create tubes for weaving

Usually, vases are woven from wicker, but paper can also become an inexpensive analogue. Almost any kind of it is suitable for the manufacture of "rods". Colored paper, written notebooks, office sheets can be used. But most often they use newspapers.

Vases woven from newspaper tubes are not too different from wicker products. The material after proper preparation becomes strong, hardy, resistant to mechanical stress. Paper weaving has the following advantages:

• Easy to work with the soft texture of newsprint.
• The sheets are large enough to make long tubes.
• Availability and environmental friendliness of the material.

In addition to newspapers, you need to stock up on scissors, a long wooden skewer, glue, a ruler. Additionally, it is worth choosing a sketch of the future product.

Algorithm for creating tubes

Before you start weaving vases from newspaper tubes, you should prepare a sufficient number of "rods". Making blanks is not difficult, but at first the procedure takes a very long time. Another problem is uneven tubes. When twisting at first, it is very difficult to control the thickness of each element.

Algorithm for creating tubes:

• First you need to divide the spread of the newspaper sheet into equal parts. The sheet will be cut alonglong side. With a ruler, you need to divide the canvas into parts, each of which has a width of 10 centimeters.
• In order not to disturb the texture of the material, it is necessary to make a separation using a ruler. Attach a ruler to the mark from the bottom to the top and tear off a long strip.
• Attach a skewer to one of the corners at an angle of 30 degrees. Start winding the newspaper onto the fixture. It is necessary to observe the winding density so that the tube ends up as strong as possible.
• Lubricate the remaining corner after twisting with glue and press it to the formed base. Then pull the skewer out of the tube.

Vases woven from tubes are neat if the tubes are as long as possible. To do this, you need to splice several elements together. Flatten the end of one tube a little and grease with glue. Push the flattened part into the void of another tube. To make it convenient to work, you should not splice more than 3 tubes.

How to weave a vase from newspaper tubes

There are several techniques for weaving vases. The choice depends on the level of skill and the shape of the future product. For beginners, the best weaving option will be the frame braiding technique:

1. Choose the basis of the shape that the vase should be. For round, you can use a bottle, jar, cup. For the square, cardboard boxes, plastic boxes can be used.
2. Fold two tubes crosswise. Further, according to the principle of creating a web, thread the remaining tubes alternately through the formed cross. You can fix the middle of the base of the cross with a clericalbutton, needle, glue gun, clothespin.
3. When the bottom is formed, you need to put the workpiece, which will be woven into the center of the prepared part. Lift the strips of tubes that remained from the bottom crosspiece along the walls of the frame and fix.
4. Next, weave the walls. The process is identical to that which was carried out for the manufacture of the bottom. Using a glue gun, the tubes are fixed, which are woven into the base of the product.

A vase woven using this technique will turn out to be an exact copy in shape of the product that was taken as a sample.

Wicker finish

Floor wicker vases from newspaper tubes require additional finishing to make the product more attractive. You can paint the workpiece with gouache in any color. To make the product waterproof, the tubes are opened with varnish or stain.

A wicker vase can additionally be decorated with any decorative elements that are fixed on the body with a glue gun. The choice of decorative ornaments depends on the features of further operation.