Chest of newspaper tubes: a master class for beginners

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:47

You must have seen wickerwork. This is such painstaking work, but handmade chairs, tables, home decorations, baskets and chests look so beautiful. Yes, wicker weaving is a difficult hobby and not everyone can do it, it will take a lot of time to weave a small chest.

Skillful craftsmen have found a solution how to replace the vine, while creating the same beautiful products, with paper tubes. Of course, they are much more malleable and much easier to work with, you can freely use the technique of weaving from a vine, greatly simplifying the whole process.

All you need to weave a chest of newspaper tubes is a stack of old newspapers and a little patience. Try to weave with your own hands a small chest, convenient for storing various trifles, according to the master class that we have prepared for you.

Chest of newspaper tubes: master class

To create a chest you will need:

• cardboard box;
• three sheets of cardboard;
• newspapers;
• thick PVA glue;
• paper;
• brushes;
• trimming fabric;
• wide braid or thick fabric;
• various items for decoration.

Weaving chests from newspaper tubes is divided into three stages: weaving the base, that is, the main part into which various things will be folded, creating a lid, painting and decorating. But let's start our master class by preparing the main material - by twisting tubes from newspapers.

Newspaper tubes

First, let's prepare more of these elements. To make a tube of the desired size, you need to cut the newspaper into several parts. The two strips along the edges are the most valuable, because the tubes from them turn out to be white, but the central ones can also be used. Tubes with letters look interesting in weaving, only emphasizing the peculiarity of the material.

On a piece of newspaper about 10 cm wide, place the needle at an angle of 30 degrees. Wrap a corner on it and fix it tightly. Turn the needle with your right hand, rolling the tube, and hold the segment with your left.

Drip a little glue on the corner of the strip, wrap to the end and press firmly, let the glue grab. Remove the knitting needle and set the small tube aside. One is already ready. Prepare more tubes before weaving.

It is clear that such a short tube will not be enough, it needs to be extended. If they were twisted correctly, then one of the ends will be wider than the other. The narrower end is simply inserted into the wide end and fixeda drop of glue.

Weave chest

Let's start weaving a chest from newspaper tubes. The master class begins with marking the box on which the chest will be woven. Using a ruler, draw a box with lines with a distance of 2 cm. At the bottom of the box, where the lines are marked, make small cuts, insert the tubes. Fix. From the outside, lift the tubes up and tighten with a rope or elastic band, pressing against the box.

Weave the box with chintz weaving, that is, leading the tubes horizontally, alternating the passage of vertical ones from below, then from above. On the next row, change the alternation. Weave a box of the height you need.

Next cover. Bend the cardboard in an arc that fits the size of the main part of the chest, fix it with rubber bands or wire. Attach the arc to another cardboard and circle. Cut out the piece and seal with tubes. The tubes can be laid out directly or also by weaving "chintz". Make the same second side for the lid. Glue the details to the arc. Braid the arc itself with chintz weaving, fixing it with good glue.

The chest of newspaper tubes is almost ready.

Assembly and decoration

All we have left is to connect the two parts of the chest and decorate it. First, let's collect the chest. To do this, lean the two parts against each other, fasten them together. This can be done with the help of threads, stretching them between the rows and tying them tightly. So the cover will remain movable, while not getting lost during operation.

Stick onat the junction of the lid and box, a piece of dense fabric or braid. Outside, seal the junction of the two main parts with paper.

Paste the inside of the box with thin white paper. If you glued the tubes to the bottom of the box from the outside, then cover them with a sheet of cardboard. For convenience, make small legs from coiled tubes, glue them. From a piece of fabric, cut the lining to size and glue on with glue.

Paint the outer surface of the chest with paint, choosing a color to your liking. Paint each tube well to hide the color. After that, cover the basket with several layers of varnish.

For the chest, you can make various locks and other decorations, for this you can use the straps of old bags and other accessories.

You can make such a beautiful chest of newspaper tubes. This is a great box for storing various things and an immodest gift for connoisseurs of handicrafts.