Recently, wicker furniture has become very popular. Such handmade products are very original, attractive, reliable and durable. The popularity of wicker furniture was given to the fact that many owners are trying to create in their dwellings the situation close to natural, so natural materials are very suitable for this.
How to make wicker furniture with your own hands
If you follow certain rules, then making wicker furniture is quite simple and fast. All the nuances when working with natural materials depend on which design you want to get in the end. Different products are distinguished by a frame and types of weaving. The easiest way to work with single weaving is much more difficult with combined and openwork. Masters can create whole drawings and compositions by combining different styles.
Wicker furniture should be primarily reliable and safe, and the material of manufacture will allow it to last for a long time. When working, it is necessary to pay special attention to the connection of the structural elements, since this is the weakest place in the products of this type. In total, two types of compounds can be called: detachable – much simplify the collection of furniture; sterful, which are created using glue and nails. Furniture made using inexhaustible compounds is considered better and more reliable, but it is not always convenient to transport due to the impossibility of disassemble.
Wicker furniture
The various branches of alder, willow, hazel, bird cherries, raspberries and other plants with bending and durable branches will be suitable. The most optimal option for beginners is the branch of bird cherry. This material is very flexible, simply divided into strips, has an attractive appearance.
It is best to prepare rods in the spring and from October to the first frosts. The rods at this time are easily cleaned and retain their flexibility for a long time. In the spring, it is best to cook rods for openwork weaving. When collecting, you need to take into account such a characteristic as the size of the core. The highest quality rods have a thin core, but the blanks with a thick core are also needed, from them you can make large objects, for example, arbors or sunbeds. Also focus on the size of the leaves, a narrow sheet indicates sufficient flexibility of the rod.
If you need to make a whip of white, then the workpiece will have to be boiled. The rods should be placed in a vessel with hot boiled water and boiled on a strong flame for an hour, and then a few more hours until a light shade appears. To get out the dark tint of the rod, you need to cook for more than 4 hours. The boiled rods must be cleaned from the bark with gloves.
In the manufacture of wicker furniture with your own hands, you can use whole rods and pre -made tapes. Such tapes can be made if you divide the whole rod into several parts, and then cut out a tape out of it.
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In the design of any chair, made by weaving method, some common parts can be distinguished: legs, seat, sidewalls, back, tsari. Additional parts include armrests. Usually, when working on a chair, willow rods are taken as a material: thick, the diameter of which is about 3 cm, thin with a diameter of 0, 5-1 cm. Each chair has an individual design, but usually about 20 rods are spent on one product. In manufacture, they use a device called Zhamka, which helps to cope with uneven places and bend a naughty rod. At the beginning it is necessary to prepare the rods, for which they break down into smaller. If there is a need for a bent element, then it can be made from an soaked rod by bending.
The chair in structure is slightly different, it has a bench, back, seat, armrests. Fat rods are taken for the frame. The places where the elements are connected are braided. The chair looks very attractive in the interior, its armrests serve not only for convenience, but also allow you to make the product much stronger.
The main load in the manufacture of wicker furniture with your own hands is distributed on the lower bench, thanks to which the chair becomes stable. In the design of the lower bench, you can distinguish the legs, a scope for sitting, the aircraft and the rushing crosses, the spaces along with the tightening. The back is the rear legs of the chair, the highest part of the back and rods stretched between them. As a rule, they pull the most durable rods several times.
The legs of the structure are fixed to the cross -shaped element of the prone and frames. Subsequently, the blotter is tightened, shootings are placed. Next, make the back and pull the rods on the seat. For the manufacture of armrests, rods are pre -soaked and bend them to the desired state.
The armrests are attached to the neighbor’s rod of the seat frame, the lumpy ends are attached to the sidebuildings of the sidewalls. The back of the armrest is connected to the legs. When the main structure is ready to begin to decorate it with smaller elements.