Wicker furniture with his own hands: manufacturing techniques and nuances

Recently the increasing popularity won the furniture made from natural materials. It is beautiful, environmentally friendly, has a specific heat, durable, does not cause allergic reactions, creates a special atmosphere comfort. The furniture market occupy a special place wickerwork. But particularly chic and considered the pride of furniture made independently.

Benefits of creating furniture with their hands

Made with their own hands, this furniture has advantages and disadvantages. Among the advantages:

• light weight, enabling you to move to any place in a room or area of ​​land;
• It does not require special care: looks very nice and fresh, if it is periodically cleaned with a damp cloth or sponge, this simple procedure prevents the product from cracking;
• It fits perfectly into any interior, giving lightness and elegance;
• Organic, is not released into the surrounding atmosphere of harmful substances;
• If done correctly, weaving - durable and strong;
• full play to the imagination handyman;
• It will save the family budget;
• opportunity to acquire skills to organize their own small profitable business.

When absolute advantage found wicker furniture and disadvantages that must be considered:

• afraid of high humidity: can not be left in the open air in bad weather;
• At the same time, the scorching sun, too, will not benefit: the furniture will dry out, buckling to lose the look, that would reduce the service life.

We determine the design and construction

Structurally wicker furniture is:

• frameless,
• framing.

For frameless design is sufficient to use a stick. They perform the function of the hard edges. Difference frame products is the presence of the metal substrate, steel rods used for it. Weaving as if "is pushed" to them. Stability and rigidity of the wooden structure attached to wooden poles.

If the handyman do the first steps in wicker furniture, we should not take on complex products: perform their novice master would be extremely difficult, leading to numerous errors and disappointment; you should start with the simplest, making it possible to master the necessary skills.

Furniture has several kinds of weaving:

weaving View	Distinctive features
Single	Plain weave is lightweight development: each branch alternately twist around all frame rack. Usually it used as the primary method of making a woven items. It gives additional strength, keeps the shape of the product.
tracery	Braiding is used in the decoration of furniture, giving a special style and originality. With the help of wave run, corners, ovals, crosses, diamonds. It takes patience, attention, care. Before performing necessary to determine the patterns, to weave a few single rows, and then choose how to decorate. The most commonly used direct openwork striped-lumens. Quite complicated operation that requires considerable skill.
combined	This type is a combination of single and weaving openwork in their varieties. Making wicker products combined with braided is "aerobatics" and indicates a high level of skill.

Necessary materials

For furniture made of twigs needed materials. It is worth noting that they can be different, and many exotic and inaccessible to us: banana leaves, bamboo, water hyacinth, sea algae. But most of the furniture is made of rattan, wicker, wicker bird cherry, alder, raspberry, hazelnut.

IMPORTANT! If you decide to use the vine is best suited willow and cherry with a distinct flexibility and plasticity. Especially good in this respect, the bird cherry.

If done correctly, weaving - durable and strong.

Excellent decorative elements are the colored pillows, rugs of various colors.

Preparation of raw materials for the robot

To get a quality product and durable, it is necessary to procure raw materials. Most often, this - willow twigs.

1. For weaving can be harvested material which is collected from living trees in the absence of kidney, the most appropriate time preforms - late autumn. You need to catch up to the first frost - the raw material is easy to clean and store dry.
2. Experts say that it is possible to procure raw materials and in the spring, but we must remember that you need to cut the bars before the swelling of the buds, if you miss on the new furniture will appear green leaves.
3. Trim branches need to forty degrees - harm the tree trimming will not cause, and in a year or two new branches will appear.
4. It is necessary to carry out a kind of test for flexibility. Cut off a twig need to bend, if not break, then the raw material for the job. Quality is considered to be a thin vine is used for fine bookbinding products.
5. Thicker branches are used for the manufacture of the frame.

Required tools

many tools are not required for Wicker furniture made of twigs, but they should be:

• knives and pruners;
• tape measure and tape measure;
• different templates.

This is - a necessary minimum, with such a set of tools you can weave a simple and small-sized products.

Manufacturing Process: technology and the manufacture nuances

In order not to lose interest in the wicker furniture and not to spoil a lot of stuff, do not just "threaten" large and sophisticated enough products -Sofa or table. It is better to start with a simple "wicker", for example, chair. It consists of several elements: the lower the bench seat, backrest, armrests. For work required willow rods up to 30 mm in diameter and thin willow twigs.

TIP. When working on a chair needed curved parts. To bend the bars, they need to be soaked, and when they become soft, remove burrs and bent on a prepared template, allow to dry.

Trim branches need to forty degrees - harm the tree trimming will not cause, and in a year or two new branches will appear.

Begin is production framework. If the master is taking its first steps in weaving of furniture, to facilitate the work better to use the old frame of a chair made of metal or wood.

ATTENTION! It is necessary not to forget about the armrests, which, however, are made at the request of the master, but serve as an additional element in the strengthening of the whole structure.

But most of the furniture is made of rattan, wicker, wicker bird cherry, alder, raspberry, hazelnut.

Procedure for the manufacture of chairs.

1. We produce frame. Self-frame is made of thick durable sticks and pieces of plywood that is used as a seat. One pair of poles will act as the front feet, it should be shorter than the second 15-20 cm.
2. Screws are connected to the legs, seat nailed.
3. Also attached to the frame with screws curved elements of the backrest and armrests.
4. Frame willow wound ribbons, for strength can be secured with glue.
5. Produced frame braid using a single braid.

At the request of the resulting processed stained chair.

The final stage-decoration

High-grade wicker furniture needs practically no decoration: it is good in itself. If you want to introduce an element of creativity and "revive" the bright colors can be used in weaving willow belt, including dyed, they are organically combined in ornament products. Excellent decorative elements are the colored pillows, rugs of various colors.

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