Weaving Hobby : How to Bind A Lid Wicker

How to Bind A Lid Wicker

How to Bind A Lid Wicker

This guide will teach you how to weave the threads with a wicker cover, which can be used for example to turn a simple basket in a basket, or place it over your fruit bowl because this is always cool and dry. In this case the handle is made with a piece of cork, but will be well also a knob of wood or a simple braided rope.

For the base of the lid, use eight uprights midollino of 60 cm. Open a corner helping you with a punch. Take these 4 pieces putting parallel and 4 others over them, at right angles. League around the cross obtained a weft yarn, pulling it well. Immerse so this part in a basin of water until the uprights will not become flexible. With a knitting needle push the plot towards the center after every round.

After 2 cm of interweaving three-wire, 16 appunti sci uprights wicker of 30 cm. Allargali with an awl. He still works for 2 cm with two strands of rattan, (if you want you can also use one of different colors to create a decoration), continuing to weave with three wires. Now you need to turn up the posts. To do this operation, during the processing with three wires, controls the size of the diameter of the lid, and when this will be wider than the edge of two turns, bends the uprights to the limit of the plot. Curve uprights and piegali right angle upwards.

To weave the edge, cut the three strands of plot and cominciane a new one with two wires each riser passes behind another on his left

Increase with an awl and push the pillar to the outside Tick the peaks of wicker with a pair of scissors Finally you have to make the handle: two pieces of knotted rope and thread the two peaks through the piece of cork Enlarge the plot with the awl and pass him the rope with a crochet hook, tying the two ends inside.