decorative baskets
Basketry from the withy, and birch roots - a very interesting and exciting craft. However, it requires a good raw material, which, living in the city, not zapaseshsya. In the meantime, figure out the basics of weaving and enjoy your work, you can use other materials, such as telephone wires. They have several advantages: easy to bend and not break down, have a lush, bright colors and virtually unlimited length. While the wire is very malleable, product of them turn out quite hard and durable.
The principles of manufacturing decorative baskets almost the same as for the baskets made of natural materials. The different ways of weaving - a long pursuit, but one of them is to stop. First, because the description of this method does not take much space. Secondly, it is rare in the literature and are usually poorly lit.
well, let’s learn to weave a basket in the image and likeness of the one that is made of pine tree roots.
To weave required: a piece of copper wire (for the manufacture of pens), an awl and two types of wires. Some of the wires we will call obtachkoy, others that a little thicker - the foundation.
Textile floor and wall baskets. Zagnite end of the foundation (of the length of fold back the wires depends form baskets - round or oval). In place of a bend and paste obtachku obveyte she bent part of the foundation, so that between the orbits remain small intervals of approximately equal width obtachki. Continue to swirl spiral basis obtachkoy, each time holding the holes in its previous series. Because the braiding is quite thick, to facilitate drawing obtachki holes slightly grow shilom. If obtachka over, insert the new wire to the previous hole, and continue whipping. The basis is better to take a long, not to build. But if you still have to build it, the new wire to the old place vstyk and carefully adhering to the junction station, continue braiding.
With the increase in the diameter of the bottom of baskets distance between neighboring coil increased. When it reaches the size of a double obtachki, obtachku extend into the holes, double the previous number.
It is possible braiding when obtachka extends under the foundation and obtachkoy previous series. In the way of gossip orange basket. In this case increasing the size of the bottom and, consequently, increasing the distance between adjacent spiral obtachka one extends into the holes the previous series. To speed up the weaving obtachku successively pass through a few holes, then gently tighten it.
Having completed the floor and wall baskets, last, outer, spiral obveyte basis so that the intervals between the spiral could vplesti additional obtachku. This bortik succeed without gaps.
M ANUFACTURE pens. Bend the handle of a copper wire and attach it to the basket. Opletaya handle obtachkoy. In doing so, start with the foundation, grasp the wire as a pen, and the upper bortik baskets. Similarly, do, and on the other side. Then obveyte obtachkoy one of duzhek pens. When to the place where the ear touch, whipping. In the end, where the ear again diverge, obveyte obtachkoy one ear. Supplementary obtachkoy Opletaya two remaining shackle so that the handle becomes symmetrical. Podrezhte obtachek protruding ends, which should always appear inside. Basket ready.