Wicker furniture with own hands

The first wicker furniture for home improvement began to be used by artisans of Ancient Rome. For a long time, products from the vines were considered plebeian, but soon and rich dignitaries appreciated the soft and durable sofas, armchairs, benches from the braids. At the same time, everyone wants to make their home beautiful and original. It is unlikely that you will be able to surprise someone with massive furniture from an expensive tree, you need a different approach to the arrangement of the house.

Wicker furniture is an original solution when creating an apartment interior, as there is a widespread stereotype about the braid as an attribute of country houses. In fact, wicker furniture can revive the boring interior design, create an atmosphere of coziness, give an opportunity to feel the warmth of human hands (make wicker products mainly with the use of manual labor).

What do wicker furniture do?

In every part of the world there is a plant, the branches or stems of which are used for weaving. Algae and synthetic fibers are also used for making woven products. For eastern Europe, traditional weaving material is willow branches. The vine is collected, cleaned of the bark, to improve strength and elasticity, the branches are treated with steam or a special solution. As a material for weaving furniture using bamboo, rattan.

Wicker furniture with own hands

Masters of needlework are looking for new techniques and more economical materials for weaving. Especially popular is the wicker from the newspaper furniture. In this article, we'll look at how to make wicker furniture with your own hands.

Step-by-step instruction: "How to make wicker furniture with your own hands?"

The easiest way to make a beautiful wicker chair is the decoupage of a conventional plastic chair.

1. For the design of the chair, we need cardboard and newspapers, from which you need to form tubes of the same diameter (you can use a pencil).
2. We put the cardboard under the chair and cut it, forming the "bottom" of the chair.
3. We glue newspaper tubes to the cardboard form, as in the photo.
4. Raise the racks up.
5. Plait a row of four tubes.
6. That's how it should turn out.
7. Two extra tubes are hidden inside, and two more tattoos are two rows.
8. After the fourth row, you can weave two tubes at the same time.
9. After several rows of two tubes of trimmings again "rope"
10. We got to the seat. Now leave the side racks and we'll take care of the seat itself - weave it with one tube.
11. In each fifth row we leave the working tube on the right, and on the left with the reserve we add a new one. Thus, we will have side racks.
12. Now we shave the sides of the left to the right with a "string".
13. Tails from the seat are hidden inside, and the back is covered with a shawl of new tubes.
14. After several rows separately we begin to weave a backrest around the whole chair.
15. To narrow the armrest, take two racks together. Then you can cut off one of them so that it does not spoil the view.
16. To make the weave look neater and it was faster, you can weave several rows at once.
17. We reached the armrests, now we'll work with the back of the chair. Start on the left, and cut off excess. The ends are glued to the back.
18. On the inside, you have to reduce the width of the back.
19. On the armrest, add two bent tubes. Shave in a circle, bending the right working tube under the first right-hand post.
20. It should look like this. The ends are cut off and pasted.
21. Next, you need to cover the arches of the armrests and backrests. Shave the upper part until the lower and upper posts do not converge. We bend the edges, we cut off excess struts.
22. This is the chair we got from a conventional plastic chair.
23. Now we paint it with stain, and then we cover with varnish. To make restoration of wicker from newspapers of furniture it is simple, thanks to cheapness of a material and simplicity of a technique of weaving.