The history of this type of needlework, such as weaving jewelry from wire, dates back millennia, because. BC, there was still wire weaving for beginners, which were found during excavations by archaeologists. The production of wire was very complex and time-consuming, so in the past the products were quite expensive.
Nowadays, wire is a material that is relatively easy to make, and its use is widespread. From ordinary, unremarkable wire, they even create wonderful jewelry, accessories, figurines, baskets and decorate household items with it.
This creativity requires perseverance and perseverance, as well as, in addition to the material itself, a lot of tools (pliers, round-nose pliers, a needle file, a triangular file, a hammer, wire cutters, tweezers, a small vise, a piece of a flat iron sheet and a number of small carnations).
The wire is used thin, with a diameter of not more than 3 mm, it has the name knitting, it can be made of brass, galvanized steel, aluminum or copper (it is better for beginners to start weaving with it). Often, in addition to weaving, beads, beads or ornamental stones are used for decoration, then the product gets a more complete look.
It is better to take the first steps in wire weaving for beginners with rings, spirals, curls and chains, because. they are the basis of even the most complex products.
Weaving for children
Children also want to join the creativity of adults, and for starters, they can be offered braiding pencils with wire. Weaving will be created with macrame knots.
Another example of a pencil braid looks like this:
Little is required - a rod that will be braided, colored wire in two colors, beads for decoration and scissors.
According to the following simple pattern, you can braid not only a pen or pencil, but also any handle, for example, toys (sword), as well as a thicker wire, which can then be twisted into a circle, so you get a bright bracelet.
It is necessary to tie the first knot according to this scheme, then the rod is inserted and then the entire rod is braided with the same knots to the end.
Braiding pencils is suitable for children of preschool and primary school age, they can also be asked to twist various simple shapes from colored wire. Simple figures are preferable, because more complex ones can lead to a loss of interest in this needlework.
Older children can learn beadwork and weave more complex beadwork and wire.
In weaving jewelry, beading is used, but wire is used instead of fishing line.
Easy lesson
The bracelet below will be able to be woven by a child as a gift to his mother or girlfriend. Let's analyze a master class on weaving jewelry.
You will need multi-colored beads, a thin wire, suitable in thickness for the holes in the beads, a clasp for a bracelet and a pencil.
First of all, the beads are strung on a wire, which is bent into a ring at the end so that the beads do not fall off. Next, several layers of wire with beads are twisted into one bundle, it is wound around a pencil. This beaded spiral must be carefully removed from the pencil and the bracelet is almost ready, it only remains to fasten the clasp.
Important warning- adults must tell children about safety precautions before starting to work with wire, because sharp wire and tools that can cause injury are used in the work, so it is safer to work with gloves and goggles.
Wire jewelry
If there are unusual knots in a wire product, then for beginners, jewelry weaving patterns will facilitate the process.
The diagrams show the sequence of actions in weaving knots.
1) A bracelet woven with a pigtail of four strands.
2) Necklace made of decorative macrame knot with several weaves.
3) Chain mail bracelet "box".
4) Chain mail bracelet "Birdcage".
5) Chainmail bracelet "Dragon scales"
Learning Together
This lesson in photos shows how to consistently create a magnificent pendant to a chain with your own hands. All you need is a wire, 4 beads and tools (pliers, round nose pliers and thin nose pliers). Carnations (pins) for beads are also made from wire with their own hands.
Previously, three beads on carnations are strung on the wire. The first loop of wire is bent, then you need to create a rhombus with such loops, i.e. three more loops are bent at a small distance from each other, and a bead is moved into each loop (2nd, 3rd and 4th - right, lower and left), the weaving of the base at the first loop is completed. Then the wire goes around the first loop and weaving inside the rhombus begins until all the empty space is filled, leaving a little for the last central bead.
Beautiful wire products are obtained when the work goes without haste, so you should stock up on time and patience.
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Wire weaving is one of the most popular handmade trends today. If you decide to do such weaving, then you need to purchase the necessary materials and learn some weaving lessons.
Weaving materials
To weave jewelry, you will need wire, but not ordinary, but handmade, it can be of various diameters and colors. Wire for needlework also comes in different stiffness, so you can weave a variety of types of products from it.
Of course, you will not get by with the presence of one wire, to work with it you will need wire cutters, pliers and round nose pliers. These are the main and basic elements, but there are a lot of types of weaving, so you may need other tools.
To make various jewelry, you will need stones, beads, beads and other decorative elements. When weaving wire jewelry, you can add various accessories or make it yourself.
If you have just started making jewelry, then you need to follow safety precautions. You will need to wear gloves to avoid hurting your hands, and since small pieces can fly apart when cutting wire, you will also need glasses.
For learning to wire weave, beginners are advised to use inexpensive wire, as it will be a pity to ruin a silver-plated or gold-plated one.
Wire products
Wire braiding is available for both adults and children. Adults are more interested in weaving various jewelry or decorating the interior, while children can, for example, distinguish themselves at school with a new stationery set or interesting bookmarks. Today, braiding pencils and pens is very fashionable among schoolchildren. The child boasts his exclusive colored wire pen, which no one else has.
Chic bouquets made of beads and wire can give an extraordinary look to your interior, such bouquets may not be found in every home, so your guests will be pleasantly surprised by such beauty.
Master class on weaving a vase
If you like to decorate your house with your own hands, then you just need vintage vases, they look very stylish and give extraordinary comfort.
In order to make such vases, you will need strong, preferably copper wire, dark electrical tape, scissors, wire cutters, hot glue and pieces of fabric.
Now let's move on to the vase itself.
The first thing you should do is the base. Usually it is either round or square, to make it you need to twist the wire into one of these shapes. Next, cut six pieces of wire of the same length, these will be the walls of your vase. At the ends of each of these wires, you need to twist the loops and wrap the edges of the loops with electrical tape.
You need to thread the base of the vase into the already prepared loops and evenly fix the ends of the bottom. The neck of the vase must be made in the same way: thread the base of a smaller diameter into the upper rings and glue it with electrical tape.
To give the vase a shape, you need to make two more circles, large and small (approximately the same diameter as the base and neck) and also fix it on the vase with electrical tape.
The fabric will help you complete the work, you need to cut it into thin strips and wrap it around the entire frame, fixing it with hot glue.
For the final result, put a flower in a chic vase, and it will be a wonderful decor for your room.
Below you can see photos of beautiful vases made from ordinary wire:
Here are some beautiful DIY decorations for your home. You can see what other crafts can be woven from wire in the video below.
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From ordinary, unremarkable wire, you can create wonderful things - jewelry, accessories, photo frames, figurines, baskets, and more. Wire weaving is an ancient art that our ancestors mastered to perfection. During archaeological excavations, scientists often find typesetting belts and women's jewelry made from this material. The same chain mail is nothing more than a product made of forged wire.
Wire weaving is a painstaking work that requires perseverance and perseverance. In addition to these qualities, wire is also needed. From the tools you will need pliers, round nose pliers, a needle file, wire cutters, a triangular file, tweezers, a small hammer, several nails of different diameters, a piece of iron with a flat surface. Also a small vise. For weaving, copper, aluminum and knitting wire with a diameter of 0.5 - 3 millimeters are used. Beads, beads, semi-precious stones, Swarovski crystals are used.
For beginners, it is best to start working with It is flexible, bends easily and at the same time holds its shape well. Before starting work, the wire must be burned. This will sting the varnish covering it, the remnants of the insulation, and make it flexible. Roll it up in a neat, loose roll and place it in the flame. When it is red-hot, lower it into cold water. For complete cleaning, the procedure can be repeated several times.
Having prepared the necessary tools and materials, you can start weaving simple elements from wire - rings, spirals, coils, chains. Even the most complex products are made up of simple elements. Wire weaving, in which beads and beads were used, looks very impressive. To do this, you can master the technique of beading. Just use thin wire instead of fishing line.
The simplest wire weaving technique is Using this technique, the product is made up of many wire rings. They are formed on special round mandrels.
As mandrels, a knitting needle or a nail is suitable. At the nail, you need to cut off the hat and the sharp end. At the end of one of the edges, make a notch to secure the wire. To make single links, lubricate the mandrel with machine oil and clamp it in a vise. Fix the end of the wire in the file and start winding even dense rows of wire onto the mandrel. Cut the finished spring directly on the mandrel with a hacksaw. As a result, you will get a bunch of single links, from which you can begin to assemble the intended product.
In order to get links from two or more turns, the spiral is removed from the mandrel, then every two turns are separated with a knife and bitten off with wire cutters. The ends of the link should be opposite each other. There is another type of links, they look like eights or an infinity sign. In order to get such beautiful twisted links, two identical mandrels must be clamped in a vice. The distance between them should be twice the diameter of the wire. We put one end between the mandrels and tightly wrap one of them, then we stretch the wire between the mandrels and wrap the second one. Wind the figure-eights between the mandrels until you run out of wire. Separate the links with wire cutters.
Chainmail wire weaving is suitable for making bracelets, belts, necklaces.
The copper key will become a mysterious and original decoration that will perfectly complement the steampunk or boho look, and can also be used as an interior accessory.
In order to make such a key with our own hands, we need:
- copper wire: 2 pieces about 40 centimeters long, thick (1.2 mm in diameter) and very thin;
- flat small bead, about a centimeter long;
- pliers;
- small vise or clamp;
- anvil (you can take any metal bar, for me it’s a part from a dumbbell);
- hammer.
Making a key from copper wire
First we create the top part of our key. We take that wire that is thicker, combine the ends and bend it with a “fish”.
We pull on the ends until the loop shrinks to about 1.5 cm in length.
Now you need to make side loops. Holding the place where the wire crosses, we draw one of the tails of the wire in a circle and tighten the loop to the desired size (about 1 cm in length).
We do the same with the second tail. I just do it with my hands, the copper wire is quite soft. But if it seems hard, you can always help yourself by grabbing the ponytail with pliers.
The procedure must be repeated on both sides again, as a result, five loops should be obtained. We put our workpiece on the anvil and begin to knock with a hammer.
It is not necessary to hit too hard, the main thing is to keep the hammer even so that it does not fall on the edge and does not leave ugly dents on the workpiece. The ends of the loops can be flattened harder, but where the wire crosses, it is important not to overdo it so that it does not break.
This is roughly how it should turn out.
Cunning: you can beat the workpiece only from the side that will then be the wrong side. Then the front will turn out smooth and even.
We clamp the workpiece in a vise so that the ends stick out, and begin to twist them together.
We twist to the place where the beard of the key will be (about 3 cm). Then we bend one of the ends at a right angle, and straighten the other down.
Stepping back about 2.5 cm, grab the lower end with pliers and begin to bend.
We bend to the end and tighten it more tightly with pliers.
Again we clamp the key in a vice, trying to press both the bent end and the twisted part.
Now we grab the end of the resulting loop with pliers and twist, and then bend the remaining tail parallel to the second.
We cut to an equal length and gently give a rounded shape with pliers.
And again we put it on the anvil and knock with a hammer. The very tip of the key and the beard can be flattened more strongly, with the rest we try not to overdo it.
It remains only to attach the bead. Take a thin wire, cut in half. We pass both pieces through the bead and put it in the center of the upper part of the key.
Now you need to wrap each tip of a thin wire around a thick wire 2-3 times. To get rid of protruding tails, we bend the wires at the very base several times, and they break off neatly.
Ready! Can be hung on a string or chain and worn with pleasure.
Pendant heart made of wire and beads
idea of this pendant in the shape of a heart from wire and beads taken from here.
Such heart can become not only bijouterie(pendant, earrings), but also used for decorations postcards, in the design of gifts, for scrapbooking, for a festive home decor for valentine's day. The main thing is to consider how you are going to use your handmade heart and make it the appropriate size.
For the manufacture of handmade heart You will need:
- wire thicker as a frame
- wire thinner for attaching beads
- beads, beads
- ribbon(hang heart)
- round nose pliers
- wire cutters for wire
Making a heart with your own hands
Take a thick wire, create a loop approximately in the middle of it, close the edges together to make heart. Cross the ends of the wire with each other and point up. 
Using round nose pliers, create from the free ends of the wire curls inside the heart. At the bottom point, fasten the thick wire frame with a rather long segment (approximately in its middle) of a thin one. 
Now we randomly put on the ends of a thin wire beads and beads, fasten them to the frame of thick wire.
Please note that heart that you see in the photo will not hang very straight, because the amount beads attached to its right and left sides is not the same (by number and by weight).
If you do pendant or earrings balance will be important. If you intend decorate a festive table, a gift or a card with a heart, then the balance will not play a very big role and you will have a wider field for fantasy.
To make this heart pendant just hang it on ribbon.
Similarly (hanging wire heart and beads on tape) You can decorate your home for valentines day. Several of these hearts will look beautiful on a chandelier, window. In addition, such a heart can decorate and candlestick(even from an ordinary glass), and festive table(for example, by adding a ribbon to the heart, you can create a unique napkin ring).
Such handmade heart can be attached to gift(it is better if it is wrapped in plain paper so that the heart is not lost on a multi-colored background).
And you can make a lot of these hearts and use them in all the ways described above, because when using different beads and beads, you can get completely different from each other hearts and hearts! Do you have any ideas? Create, bring joy to yourself and your loved ones with creativity!
Holiday greetings Happy Valentine's Day!
To relieve stress, children and adults resort to manual labor. Making small crafts calms, relieves stress and develops fine motor skills, which has a good effect on brain activity. Wire craft ideas can be found below.
Flowers
The ideal material for creativity is chenille wire. This soft and pliable tourniquet is well suited for bringing children's fantasies to life. Even a small child can work with such a wire. He can play with it, and then make something. For example, a flower. Wire crafts are distinguished by their decorative appearance and good preservation. How to make a bright plant? Take the yellow wire and twist it into a spiral. Now create waves from the pink soft material. Each petal must be fixed by interlacing with the outer ring of the yellow spiral. Complete the product by attaching a green leg. You can also create a soft sheet. A bouquet made in this technique looks beautiful. It can be presented for a birthday to mom or grandmother.
Carrot
In a similar technique, fruits and vegetables can be made in order to explain to the child how they look with a good example. Let's make a carrot completely repeats the shape of a vegetable, although it exaggerates it a little. To create a carrot, you will need orange and green wire, as well as some kind of cylinder with a diameter of 2 cm. Wind the orange wire with a spiral, and then remove it from the base. Then make the top of the carrot a little wider than its spout. We leave this blank and proceed to the manufacture of grass. We make three semicircles from green wire and wind them at the base. We attach such a branch to the wide side of the carrot. The product is ready. Similarly, you can make an apple, for this purpose you will need to use a semicircular shape, make a fruit from two halves.
Christmas tree
Such crafts from can decorate not only the nursery, but also the living room. The tree looks stylish and decorative. How to make such a product? To create a Christmas tree, you need two types of wire. We take a standard copper wire and make a frame. It will consist of a base circle and six segments that will form a cone. Solder the base or wind the parts to each other with a less thick wire. The frame is ready, now you can start decorating it. Take fluffy wire and make curls out of it. You need to make blanks of different sizes. Now attach the pieces to the metal frame made earlier. You can use both green wire and wire of any other color for decoration. Take, for example, white or dairy. Then your product will look very stylish. Additionally, you can decorate the Christmas tree with beads, beads or metal fittings.
Hare
This cute wire craft can be a toy for your child. For example, you can make an animal figurine that will cheer you up and will be able to captivate your child for more than one evening. You can make similar animals together with your child. You can see the step-by-step process of creating a hare above. It looks like this. Take a cylinder and wind a soft, brightly colored wire around it. Remove the spiral and give it volume by slightly fluffing the workpiece. Insert a piece of wire between the turns at the back of the product. Fold the ends of the wire towards the center. These will be the hare's legs. Now insert another piece of wire between the turns, but this time in front of the product. By analogy with the paws, bend the ears. It remains to make a hare muzzle. You can cut out eyes from colored paper or fabric, or you can buy blanks in a store. Any large bead can be used as a nose.
Pendant
Wire crafts can look not only like toys, but also like accessories. For example, you can make yourself a fashionable pendant for a dress. To do this, take a copper wire and flatten it. For this purpose, you can use a hammer or use wire cutters. Before starting work, you need to draw a sketch of the decoration. The easiest way to create a stylish accessory is from a wire wrapped in a spiral. Screw one half of the metal piece in one direction, and the other half in the opposite direction. To make the decoration look more interesting, you need to twist one part more than the other. Now connect the blanks. They should be connected in the following sequence: the lower and upper parts must be mirrored vertically, and the side parts horizontally. The workpieces should be fastened together with a thin wire.
flat figurines
It is most convenient to make small wire crafts using molds. To do this, take a wooden base and attach branches to it. Depending on the sketch, you can vary the size of the future product and the sharpness of the corners. If you want to make a sharp detail on the animal, drive in carnations in the right place, and if you need to make a smooth turn, it is advisable to use a small part of the branch. But how to connect the finished product? You do not need to fasten it on the form, otherwise you will not be able to remove it. You need to connect the parts of the figure by twisting one end of the wire with the other. Be sure to think in advance where the twisted part will be located. It is advisable to do it on the back of the animal, since a noticeable thickening will be located in this place. You can decorate the figurine with various details that will need to be made from thinner wire. For example, it can be a bow on a cat's neck or a bone on a dog.
paperclips
Kids at school lose bookmarks all the time. Such colored papers are inexpensive, but few people want to go to the store every three days (to buy a new pack). Make your own paper clip bookmarks for your child. Such figurines can serve as both toys and a stylish and useful thing at the same time. It is possible to make in this technique not only animals, but also things around us. For example, an envelope, a guitar, a flower. How to make a bookmark? You need to arm yourself with pliers and roll up the form. To make this process easier, and you do not have to fantasize at the time of creation, you should draw a sketch in advance. One of the ends of the wire must always be twisted into a spiral. This element will cling to the paper, converting the wire figure into a paperclip bookmark.
Wood
What do-it-yourself wire crafts can you make? From this material you will be able to make pendants and earrings. One of the options for such a product is presented above. It will be very difficult to build such a pendant or earrings, and the wires are made in the sequence described below. First, a round base shape is formed. Now you need to take a thin wire and make roots. Hang a piece of wire on the ring, make a few turns, hang another piece in the neighborhood in a similar way. At the end of this stage, 25 pieces should be attached to the circle. Let's start creating the roots. From every three adjacent wires, you need to weave braids approximately 1 cm long. Now we twist all the wires into a bundle. This will be the stem. And 3-6 wires are gradually discarded. These branches need to be twisted into bundles. We hang beads, beads or pebbles on the ends of the branches. We attach the wire to the base ring with knots.
The copper key will become a mysterious and original decoration that will perfectly complement the steampunk or boho look, and can also be used as an interior accessory.
In order to make such a key with our own hands, we need:
- copper wire: 2 pieces about 40 centimeters long, thick (1.2 mm in diameter) and very thin;
- flat small bead, about a centimeter long;
- pliers;
- small vise or clamp;
- anvil (you can take any metal bar, for me it’s a part from a dumbbell);
- hammer.
Making a key from copper wire
First we create the top part of our key. We take that wire that is thicker, combine the ends and bend it with a “fish”.
We pull on the ends until the loop shrinks to about 1.5 cm in length.
Now you need to make side loops. Holding the place where the wire crosses, we draw one of the tails of the wire in a circle and tighten the loop to the desired size (about 1 cm in length).
We do the same with the second tail. I just do it with my hands, the copper wire is quite soft. But if it seems hard, you can always help yourself by grabbing the ponytail with pliers.
The procedure must be repeated on both sides again, as a result, five loops should be obtained. We put our workpiece on the anvil and begin to knock with a hammer.
It is not necessary to hit too hard, the main thing is to keep the hammer even so that it does not fall on the edge and does not leave ugly dents on the workpiece. The ends of the loops can be flattened harder, but where the wire crosses, it is important not to overdo it so that it does not break.
This is roughly how it should turn out.
Cunning: you can beat the workpiece only from the side that will then be the wrong side. Then the front will turn out smooth and even.
We clamp the workpiece in a vise so that the ends stick out, and begin to twist them together.
We twist to the place where the beard of the key will be (about 3 cm). Then we bend one of the ends at a right angle, and straighten the other down.
Stepping back about 2.5 cm, grab the lower end with pliers and begin to bend.
We bend to the end and tighten it more tightly with pliers.
Again we clamp the key in a vice, trying to press both the bent end and the twisted part.
Now we grab the end of the resulting loop with pliers and twist, and then bend the remaining tail parallel to the second.
We cut to an equal length and gently give a rounded shape with pliers.
And again we put it on the anvil and knock with a hammer. The very tip of the key and the beard can be flattened more strongly, with the rest we try not to overdo it.
It remains only to attach the bead. Take a thin wire, cut in half. We pass both pieces through the bead and put it in the center of the upper part of the key.
Now you need to wrap each tip of a thin wire around a thick wire 2-3 times. To get rid of protruding tails, we bend the wires at the very base several times, and they break off neatly.
Ready! Can be hung on a string or chain and worn with pleasure.
Wire weaving was especially popular in Soviet times: then people, bracelets, rings, caskets, baskets, key chains, flowers were made from multi-colored flexible twigs. Today, any decoration and useful thing in everyday life can be bought, but it is much more pleasant. do it yourself and, for example, to give mom. Or surprise your peers with an original bauble made of beads and wire. Beginning needlewomen and needlewomen will benefit from an article from the old magazine "Family and School" about how how to weave wire. Here you will find schemes and methods of weaving from wire, get interesting ideas for creativity.
Material: pieces of telephone cable with insulation of various colors, and thicker wire that will be needed to make frames.
Tools: wire cutters, pliers, hammer and awl.
To make templates you will need: cardboard, paper (thick), ruler and compass.
Schemes and methods of weaving from wire
The first and second figures show different ways of weaving two, three or more pieces of wire. Weaving in the form of a braid (Figure 1, I a, b, c, d, e) . They take a piece of wire, bend it, fasten the second wire to the first one at the bend. For convenience, the upper part is fixed with a nail to the board and weaved, as indicated in the figure. You can make a rope out of two wires. Having connected two pieces, twist them to the right or to the left. Two "strings", twisted in different directions and put together, form a Christmas tree.
Wicker "path" (Figure 1, II a, b) . Taking a wire 1.5 mm thick, bend one end of it, and weave it with thinner wires at the bend until the width necessary for your track is formed. Having finished the first row, the end of the first piece of wire is bent, passing it between the ends of the entire braid, like the movement of a shuttle in a loom, and weaving of the second row begins. Having finished the second row, the end of the first piece is again bent and passed between the ends of the braid, but from the opposite side. In this order, weave the track to the desired size.
Braided round belt (Figure 1, III a, b, c, d, e, f, g, i, j) . The figure shows in sequential order the weaving of a girdle from the four ends of the wire.
When weaving, you need to remember that each row ends with threading the last end into the loop formed when the initial one is bent. A new row can be started from either end, but the last one must be threaded into the loop of the first, thus completing the weaving of the row.
The belt is woven from any number of wires. Figure 2 shows the weaving of two belts around the rod (front view and side view). The rod is made up of several wires laid in a row close to each other.
The first end of the wire is wound behind the rod and forms a loop on the side of the rod, and the second end of this wire, encircling the rod from the front side, is threaded into the loop formed and wound up behind the rod. Then the rod is encircled with the first end of the wire from the front side and threaded into the loop of the second end, and so, performing row after row, you can get a belt of any length.
The second exercise is slightly different from the first, the sequence of its implementation is shown in the figure.
Ideas: what interesting things can be woven from wire
Round wire stand:
On a board of small thickness, carnations without hats are driven in in a circle at the same distance. Then, with two pieces of wire 1.5 mm thick, the studs are braided around in opposite directions. The third piece of wire is placed radially between the nails, fastening the outer braid. The center is tied with a thin wire. The resulting frame is braided with a fourth, thinner piece of wire. Weaving on the frame starts from the center. Having fixed the end of the wire, weaving is carried out in a circle, alternately bending around from one side, then from the other, radially located threads.
Wire basket:
The frame is assembled from an even number of pieces of wire - 6, 8, 10 or more, depending on the size of the basket. First, a ring of the correct shape is bent, and then two risers, a bottom and a handle are made from one piece and fastened to the ring. Further, the rest of the risers and the base for the bottom are bent out of four pieces. Having bent the upper ends, they are hung on the ring, tightly secured with pliers.
First of all, weave the bottom. Having fixed the end of the wire in the center, several weaves are made in a circle, similar to the weaving of the stand, and then they switch to the weaving of the radial threads that form the bottom. In the same way, the risers of the sides are braided.
With this method of weaving, gaps remain between horizontally running threads. The base of the handle is braided with a thin wire, tightly fitting the spiral rings to each other.
Wire shopping bag:
For work, you will need a thick cardboard, equal in size to the intended bag. Points for the holes for attaching the handles and the frame of the bag are marked on it with a pencil. Holes are pierced in the designated places with an awl and two metal or wooden rings for handles are made. The finished handles are placed on the cardboard (at the attachment points on both sides) and fastened to the cardboard with a thin cord or wire, as shown in the figure.
In the manufacture of the frame, the wire threads are passed through the holes and thrown onto the rings of the handles. Then, in one of the ways, they start weaving from the bottom up. After the sides of the bag are ready, the cardboard is removed. For winding handles use a thin wire.
DIY colored wire flowers:
Figure 6 shows how to make flowers from spirals.
The flowers are collected in a bouquet and the "stems" are wrapped with thin wire, the ends are divided into separate bundles (8 - 10), which serve as a frame for weaving the base of the vase. The weaving method is the same as for the sides of the basket (see Figure 4).
Dog and deer:
The body and head of a deer are woven in the form of a round belt (see Figure 1).
The front legs are woven into the body and pass into the neck, made by the method of spiral winding. The doggy consists of a frame braided with a coil.
How to bend and join wire
Many different items can be made from wire - from the simplest hook to the most complex patterns. Suitable copper, iron, steel, aluminum wire and telephone cable with a different color coating. The wire is stored wound in circles. Of the tools you need: a hammer, a small vise, a file, pliers, wire cutters, pliers, pliers, round nose pliers, metalwork scissors, a soldering iron.
The wire is straightened by pulling it between two wooden blocks or by pulling it tightly around a round metal rod (door handle). Steel wire or thin bar metal is best straightened on a hard surface with a hammer or mallet. Small parts are bent with pliers or round nose pliers. Large and hard - bend in a vice.
Iron and copper thin wire is cut with wire cutters and pliers. Steel - in the place of the cut, it is preheated over a fire. Strip or sheet metal is first marked out, and then slightly incised at the marking points and chopped with strong blows.
Separate pieces of wire and other metal parts are connected by bending or soldering. In the first case, several turns are made, pulling the wire onto the rod. Before soldering, the surface of the parts is thoroughly cleaned with a file or sandpaper from dirt and rust. The wire is soldered by folding the two ends together, after twisting them for strength. A thin wire can be soldered using a paste - tinol, which is applied in a thin layer to the place of soldering and heated over a fire.
To learn how to do things from wire well and cleanly, you must first make some simple details:
- Spiral spring. A wire 1-1.5 mm thick is wound on a round wooden dagger of a cylindrical or conical shape (Figure 1, a).
- Rings and half rings. The spiral-spring is cut lengthwise (Figure 1, b).
- Flower. Six half rings are soldered to the ring (Figure 1, c).
- Gear. Six half rings are soldered together [Figure 1, d).
- Spiral. They take the end of the wire with round-nose pliers and twist it around by rotating the hand in a circle (Figure 1, e).
- Openwork of three spirals (Figure 1, f).
- Openwork leaf. On a blank of a conical shape, 4 - 5 rings are made (wire thickness - 0.5 - 1 mm). The resulting rings are shaped as shown in Figure 1, g, and soldered at the base.
- The shamrock is bent from one wire with pliers (Figure 1, h).
- Wave (Figure 1, i).
Star and ornamental stripe. On a board of small thickness, mark out the drawing and drive in nails without hats:
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Flower girl. A bracket with a spiral termination is bent from a two-millimeter wire. Separately, the ring is rolled up and fastened by intercepting the sides. At the top, the spirals are connected by three turns of wire (Figure 4).
Furniture. It is made from one and a half to two millimeter wire. Its parts are fastened together with coils. Thin-layer plywood or cardboard can serve as a seat and table top. For fastening in plywood, small holes are made with an awl (Figure 5).
Puzzle. It is necessary to separate its parts so as not to bend the wire anywhere and not to compress it (Figure 6).
Horse. From two pieces of wire 2.5 - 3 mm thick, the legs and two lower spirals are bent. From the third piece make the head, neck and upper spiral. From the fourth - a mane, turning on the back into coils fastening pieces of wire. The mane is soldered in several places (Figure 8).
Heron. It is made from one piece of wire (section - 3 mm) with spiral rings for a decorative vase (Figure 9).
I. Lyamin, Family and School magazine, 1971