Flower basket made from newspapers. A basket of newspaper tubes for beginners step by step

How to make a basket from old newspapers that is a hundred times cooler than the store bought one updated: April 20, 2019 by: anuta-ivanova

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Before you start weaving a square box, you need to learn how to make a square bottom. Let us immediately warn you that the square shape often causes difficulties for beginners, so beginners are recommended to start with small round baskets. You can familiarize yourself with the procedure for weaving such baskets in our previous article.

There are several ways to make a square bottom:

1. Use ordinary plywood (we will tell you more about it below);
2. Weave the bottom using tubes, the bottom will turn out beautiful, wicker. But this option will be a little difficult for beginners at the initial stage;
3. The bottom for a wicker box can be a piece of corrugated cardboard covered with paper, wallpaper or fabric.

Cardboard bottom covered with vinyl wallpaper

In order to make a cardboard bottom we will need:

• Vinyl wallpapers. You can replace them with anything: from plain paper to fabric;
• pva glue;
• Cardboard with double corrugation.

Carefully coat the cardboard with glue on one side. We take a blank of a larger area and put cardboard on it. After turning it over, smooth the wallpaper with a polyurethane spatula to remove all bubbles. Of course, you can do without it, but such a tool will simplify the work and make it better.

Smoothed wallpaper sticks in a matter of minutes! Having smeared the base with glue, we press the fold tightly to the cardboard, as if pulling it from the edges to the center.

Important! In some cases, the wallpaper may not stick to each other. In such situations, it is recommended to glue the corners with a more powerful glue.

Don't be alarmed if the corners are slightly off. Glue them with a more powerful glue, for example, polymer “Master”, “Dragon” or “Titan”.

Now, so that the bottom does not bend over night and dry out thoroughly, it needs to be placed under pressure. After a day, you can begin the next stage of weaving a box from newspaper tubes: creating holes for the stands.

To do this we need an awl with an extension and a rather sharp tip. Holes need to be made at the ends of the bottom along its entire perimeter, at a distance of approximately 2.5 cm from each other. Note! The awl should fit evenly. Do not damage the bottom walls.

Now you need to glue the racks into each hole.

Lubricate the holes with pva glue, and remove the excess with a cloth. The deeper you manage to place the rack, the stronger the structure will be.

Compared to bottoms made by gluing racks between two blanks (shown in the photo below), this method is particularly elegant. The products are thin and neat, which is great for creating small baskets and boxes.

In order for the glue to set well and to be sure that the racks will not fall out, it is necessary to leave the bottom for a couple of hours to dry. After this, you can safely continue working.

As a precaution, we will make the inside of the box on the side where the smaller piece of wallpaper was pasted. This is done in case the basket is placed on a wet surface.

In this case, nothing will come off, since the outer edge is wrapped in wallpaper. Also, to protect against moisture and make the structure stronger, the bottom is coated with acrylic varnish.

Let's start raising the racks. This should be done as follows:

Taking an auxiliary, new tube, we place it under the counter (pay attention to the photo below). Next, we bend the stand, bringing it under the neighboring ones and lifting it up. We repeat this action with all the other tubes.

Important! Pay attention to the angle! In order for the corner post to maintain its position, you need to move it towards you (look at the photo below).

Next, we bring the previous rack under it and lift the corner one up. Thus, the original corner post seems to hug the new corner post and lead it behind the next one. This method allows you to get an even angle.

Having done this around the perimeter of the bottom, remove the auxiliary tube and place the last remaining stand in its place. As a result, we got a neat bottom.

Now the main task is to beautifully braid the resulting frame in any convenient way, with calico weaving or rope.

Paper for the bottoms or imitation wrinkled fabric/leather.

Take a regular sheet of A4 office paper and lightly spray it on both sides with a spray bottle. Next, scrunch it into a ball, making small folds, and hold it in your fist. This is necessary so that each fold is well saturated with water and slightly loosened. Carefully unroll the wet sheet of paper and place it on the film.

Take a brush and paint the sheet on one side with a light stain. Turning it over, paint it dark.

Advice! It will be much easier to turn the sheet over without damaging its integrity if you cover it with a second piece of film, turn it the other side and remove the piece on which the paper was originally located.

A very interesting pattern appears on the front side of the paper: veins painted with dark stain appear through the light stain.

After drying, the paper will shrink slightly and begin to look like leather. Before gluing it to the cardboard, it is recommended to spray the sheet on one side with a spray bottle.

After varnishing such bottoms, they turn out unique and quite attractive.

Alena Bugrova offered her step-by-step video tutorial on decorating the bottom of a wicker basket. This method requires more effort and time and involves applying a multi-layer patina. The result will pleasantly surprise you!

Weaving a square bottom from newspaper tubes using a machine

Machine No. 1 - arched perforated plastic corner

Olga Ladoga covered the topic of weaving on this machine step by step and in detail. Watch the lesson in this video:

To maintain evenness and consistency of shape, it is recommended to place skewers or knitting needles on the outer posts.

To make weaving comfortable and enjoyable, one condition must be met. Tubes used as racks, must be completely dry, and workers (used directly during weaving) - wet.

There are several ways to braid racks: with chintz (you will need one tube) and with “reverse rope” (you will need 2). When weaving with chintz, you need to take turns placing the tube behind the counter and in front of it. When weaving with a “reverse rope”, the bottom will be more even and will not bend.

You can braid the racks as follows: if you weave with chintz, leave the ends of the working tubes on the sides, approximately every 2-3 rows. In the future they will be side posts. The result should look like this:

How to achieve this:

However, if you braid the posts completely without leaving the ends, then you need to add tubes to the two bare walls. This is done at the end of the work, after we remove the bottom from the machine.

With this option, glue new racks every 3 rows (look at the photo below):

After this, it is recommended to braid the racks with a simple rope, preferably 2 rows. This way they will be held in place more firmly. And only after this can you raise the racks.

Machine No. 2 - cardboard in combination with clothespins

Taking a piece of cardboard, draw stripes on it at a distance of 1.5-1.8 cm.

To each line, observing the ruler, we attach newspaper tubes using clothespins. The tubes can also be secured with masking tape instead of clothespins. The tape can then be easily removed without leaving any traces.

Machine No. 3 - penoplex (or cardboard) in combination with tailor's pins

The weaving pattern on this machine is discussed step by step in the video:

Maintain right angles

When raising the racks, remember that the outermost ones must be exactly in the center of the corner. Before you start braiding the walls, it is recommended to insert 2 additional posts into the corner. Thus, this corner post will not be single, but triple.

Olga Ladoga explains the basic principles of braiding corners in her master class:

Weaving a large laundry box

Since a laundry basket made from newspaper tubes is designed for a large load, in the case of a cardboard bottom it is recommended to make the bottom double: so that the posts are located between two sheets of cardboard.

If you plan to use plywood, then the bottom of the bottom for the linen box can be made single, in this case, the racks must be secured as firmly as possible using a furniture stapler and polymer glue. To prevent the staples from being visible, you need to take plywood at least 6 mm thick, otherwise they will come out from the inside out.

When forming double bottom made of plywood or MDF, it will look much neater if you take two sheets 4 mm thick. There will be no joints, the bottom will be smooth both inside and out.

If your choice still falls on corrugated cardboard, you will need two blanks made according to the template. Do not forget to cover them with wallpaper or other paper analogues. Between these blanks we glue the stands using polymer glue (look at the photo below)! This will give the structure greater strength.

Leave it to dry overnight under pressure. After this, we braid at least one row of ropes around the perimeter. You can braid a rope into 3 or more tubes, or you can braid it into 2 tubes. This step will eliminate the gaps between the workpieces.

Now, in a way already familiar to us, we lift the racks up, wrapping them behind the adjacent one, and align them.

If you place the racks behind the second adjacent one, the frame will take on the following form:

Now all that remains is to braid the racks with any of the patterns. For beginners, “chintz” may be suitable, as it requires a minimal amount of material to weave. Having placed the form inside, we begin weaving with moistened tubes. We continue to the height we need.

When weaving with a “simple rope”, approximately one and a half times more material is wasted than when weaving with “chintz”.

Now the box needs to be primed. Mix the following ingredients in 1:1 proportions: varnish and water, or water and pva glue. After this, the casket needs to be thoroughly coated and dried.

Leave it for at least a day. In a day it will acquire rigidity and will squeak pleasantly. Then we cover it with acrylic varnish in 1-2 layers and let it dry.

Rectangular lid with inner edge

We glue 2 racks to the cardboard, as shown in the photo.

Next, after applying glue, we attach a second piece of cardboard and send our frame to dry under pressure.

We weave with a “rope” to the size we need, braiding both posts. The size should not exceed the internal size of the box.

Having tried it on and made sure that the lid does not reach the edges a couple of centimeters, we continue to braid only one rack, bending the second one. It will serve as the beginning of our future side. For ease of weaving, you can place books under the lid.

Having reached the desired size, we turn it over and begin weaving a side of 2-3 rows. Then we cut off the racks and try the lid on the box again.

Since the corners are not strong enough, these posts must be bent under the side, secured with glue, and then cut off. Since the rest of the weaving is dense, we simply cut off the remaining posts.

A box made of newspaper tubes can serve not only as a laundry basket, but also as storage for toys. Knitting them is no more difficult than knitting, and the possibilities are very diverse. In a similar way, you can make things of various sizes: it could be a small box or chest, which is very useful in everyday life.

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Master class on weaving a basket from paper tubes

Teacher of the Omsk region educational institution “Krasnoyarsk adaptive boarding school” Shaldina Anna Viktorovna
Description: This master class is intended for middle and high school students, additional education teachers, and educators. The basket can be a wonderful gift or interior decoration.
Target: introduce students to the technique of weaving paper tubes
Tasks:
1. Introduce the technique of making paper tubes, teach simple weaving techniques - straight weaving, rope weaving.
2. Develop fine motor skills, improve mental operations.
3. Cultivate aesthetic taste.
Tools and materials:
- paper (A4 format)
- knitting needle (diameter 0.5)
- scissors
- glue stick
- color (brown)
- acrylic varnish
- brush
(photo 1)

(photo 20)

I came across such creativity online as weaving from newspaper tubes. I was interested and decided to try it. I have reviewed more than a dozen master classes. Externally, the products are in no way inferior to wickerwork. And for home use they are quite durable and for a gift - nice!
Using various varnishes, paints and coating impregnations when weaving, you can create braids of all the colors of the rainbow.
And by decorating the baskets with beads, flowers, ribbons or appliqués using the deco page technique, you can turn them into works of art.
Here's what I got.
You will need:
1. Newspaper sheets
2. PVA glue
3. Knitting needle
4. Scissors, stationery knife
5. Paint (acrylic), varnish (Finish varnish), alcohol-based stain (origon, larch, lemon...)
6. Brushes for glue and paint.
7. Basis for weaving

Operating procedure:

First, you need to determine the direction of the paper grain. The direction must be longitudinal. There are several ways to determine direction. Here's one: stretch the edges of a piece of paper between the nails of two fingers. In the transverse direction of the fibers, the edge will become wavy; in the longitudinal direction, folds will not form. Strips of this size will make thin tubes for an elegant product. If you need thicker tubes, then the width of the strips and the diameter of the knitting needles need to be increased.
I paint the tubes with a brush on regular oilcloth. I only use alcohol-based stains. On the recommendation of one master class, I tried to paint the tubes with a water-based stain - it ruined everything. When wet, the gluing area separates and the tubes unfold. Don't repeat the same mistakes.
Stage 1: Preparation
We mark the newspaper into strips of 7 cm.

On a backing board, cut the newspaper into strips with a utility knife.

The angle of the knitting needle on the newspaper strip is 10°-15°.

You need to start winding the strip very tightly, wrapping the edge of the newspaper around the knitting needle. The tubes turn out white if the white margin of the newspaper strip is left on the right.

Secure the edge of the newspaper with glue.

At this stage, the finished tubes can be painted in the desired color if desired and allowed to dry thoroughly. You can paint the finished product afterwards. And if you cover it with paint and varnish on top, then no one will guess that this basket is made from an ordinary old magazine (newspaper).

Stage 2: Weaving
Let's start the work by weaving the bottom. It all depends on the size of your product. To weave the basket presented to your attention, you will need 30 (thirty) tubes 50 cm long.
We take 10 tubes (hereinafter: faces) 45-50 cm long. Lay them out in pairs.

We fold the working tube in half and wrap it around the first pair of rays.

The start of work can be marked with a marker on the edge of the beam.

We braid each pair of rays with a rope. The working tubes intersect, then one working tube goes on top of the pair of rays, the other below. As soon as the length of the working tube ends, we extend it (insert the end of the next tube into the hole of the previous one).

We weave two rows until the pair of rays marked with a marker.

We weave the third and fourth row into one ray.

We direct the working tubes to the middle of the bottom.

We form the edging of the bottom. With the first ray (marked with a marker), we go around the next one, directing it to the center of the bottom and so on in a circle.

We insert the last ray from below into the loop of the first ray.

We decorate the 5th (fifth) row with wooden beads with a diameter of 16 cm. You will need 6 pieces. beads

6 (sixth) and 7 (seventh) rows, knit with a rope. The work is almost finished! All that remains is to cut off the excess length of the working tubes and tuck them between the rows using a knitting needle.

We cut off the extended ends of the working tubes with scissors.

To make the handle of the basket, leave 3 (three) rays on each side, separating them with clothespins. Place a drop of glue at the base of the remaining rays and cut them off with scissors.

We connect the ends of the basket handle tubes.

Before weaving the handle, drop a drop of glue onto the edge of the tube and secure it with a clothespin. We braid the handle with a tube along the entire length.

At the end of weaving the handle, drop a drop of glue onto the end of the tube and secure it with a clothespin. The main work is finished.

Stage 3: Coloring
For strength, saturate the basket with PVA glue and give it the desired shape. Let the glue dry completely.

Paint the basket with white acrylic paint. (you can add color paste, different dyes or paint with stain).

We cut out motifs from a napkin and make a page deck. Cover the basket with Finish varnish and dry the finished work.

There is nothing better than something made with your own hands. Admire, rejoice, give as a gift!!!

Previously, in villages, weaving baskets, boxes, and various products was a common activity. We did this mainly on long winter evenings. The material for weaving was vine. You might think that this hobby has sunk into oblivion and only a few are involved in it, but this is not so. Nowadays you can find craftswomen making beautiful decorative wickerwork from newspapers. By mastering weaving from newspaper tubes step by step for beginners, carefully following the instructions, you can learn this handicraft.

The material used by needlewomen is not vine, due to its inaccessibility, and tubes from newspaper. Products made from such raw materials are almost identical in appearance to the usual products made from wicker or straw. After processing, they are durable, practical and beautiful.

This is not only a fascinating, but also useful activity in everyday life, since the products can be both decorative and used in the household. This type of creativity does not require any financial investment or special training, and the result often justifies the time spent.

Tubes for weaving are made from newspapers, magazines, receipt paper, etc. The material is very inexpensive, and may even be free. For example, free newspapers are dropped into mailboxes, distributed near the metro or inside the metro.

Preparation of material

The newspaper is divided into several pages in the direction of the text, 7-8 cm thick, cut and using a thin knitting needle, starting from the corner, twisted into a tube. The knitting needle is taken from 2.5 to 3.5 mm. These are standard recommendations; of course, you can try other options. The thickness and length of the tube depend on the angle of twist. The flatter the angle of application of the knitting needle to the corner of the paper, the thinner and longer the tube is obtained.

At the end of the twist, it is secured with a drop of PVA glue or pencil glue. The disadvantage of fixing with PVA glue is that when painting the tubes, the gluing area is not painted over. Since this segment is located on the edge, some people cut it off during work.

Important nuance: if you twist tubes from a newspaper, then from the outer strips, where the white outline of the newspaper runs without text, you get clean white tubes without font. You should also take into account that newspaper fingers quickly get dirty from printing ink. You should periodically wipe them with a napkin so that there are no stains on the white tubes.

Processing of tubes

Weave from paper vine you can directly after twisting or carry out additional processing, that is:

Types of weaving

When making products, the paper vine is extended by inserting one tube into another. The fact is that during the twisting process, one end turns out to be thicker than the opposite, and it is not difficult to connect them. You can use a drop of glue, but many people do without it. If the tip is too soft, you can trim it slightly to make the connection easier.

There are several types of weaving baskets from newspaper tubes, and they are similar to natural wicker weaving:

It is recommended to start with wicker weaving with the simplest and most versatile rope weaving. It is more durable than simple weaving and looks more beautiful. In addition to using different techniques for this type of needlework, you can create patterns by skipping rows or creating holes in the work. Using different colors of tubes and alternating them, you can create your own unique patterns and combinations.

Type of weaving from newspaper wicker "rope"

Before you make a paper basket with your own hands, you first need to decide on the shape of the product. She can be anything: round, square, oval or other geometric shapes. It’s better to choose a layout along the contours of which you will work. You will put it at the bottom of the basket and braid it. This promotes even and comfortable weaving, helping to avoid distortions and deviations from the chosen shape. Layouts are usually shoe boxes, dishes, existing boxes, etc. Unusual shapes, for example, a heart, can be made yourself from cardboard.

Making a basket begins from the bottom; it can also be woven from wicker, or it can be made from thick cardboard. Cut out two pieces of cardboard according to the shape of the bottom, cover it with the remains of wallpaper, decorative paper, or thin fabric, depending on the idea. Tubes are glued to one part along the perimeter at equal distances, covered on top with another part with glue, everything is carefully pressed and left under pressure overnight.

Folding the edge of the product

When you have completed the work at the required height, a the need to process the edge of the product how to finish a craft. To do this, the tubes are bent in a special way. There are several types of edge bending: simple, voluminous, complex, pigtail, etc. Finishing folding patterns are as varied as the types of main weaving. You can use only racks for bending or create a more decorative look by introducing additional tubes.

To make processing easier, the edges of the stand should be shortened with scissors. After bending, they are glued. After the glue has dried, cut off the remaining ends. If necessary, you can add handles to the basket or make a lid.

Final processing

This is where you can show all your imagination.. First, you should coat the product with a primer along with PVA glue or just glue diluted with water. This is done to obtain greater strength and rigidity of the basket. When the composition dries a little, the craft can be slightly straightened in shape and left to dry further. Next, you can make the basket colored, decoupage it, decorate it with ribbons, stick on convex decorative elements, etc. The final stage will be coating your creation with acrylic varnish with a glossy or matte effect. This varnish is very convenient, odorless, easy to apply, and dries quickly.