Chairs, woven from rods, are very light, but at the same time strong and beautiful. They can be placed in the garden and decorate the interior of your home. In addition, the material for their manufacture is growing everywhere and in large quantities.
It is necessary
- - willow twigs and sticks;
- - willow tape;
- - zhamka;
- - a hammer;
- - small nails.
Instructions
Step 1
Prepare a chair frame from willow sticks. Align the willow sticks with a chamfer and make a chair frame out of them. To do this, mark a distance of 48-50 cm on a leveled stick, and bend its ends at right angles using a jumper. Cut the folded ends obliquely from above. This will create the front of the chair's seat frame.
Step 2
To get the back of the seat frame, take a second 120cm stick and bend it into an arc. Cut the ends obliquely from the bottom and knock them off with the front frame part.
Step 3
To the resulting frame from below, at a distance of 18 cm from the front, nail a curved stick. From the other two sticks, cut pieces of 63 cm long. On each stick, measure a distance of 35 cm. To the middle of the thickness of the sticks, make cuts of such size so that you can insert another stick into them. Fold the sticks down, you should have a cross. Knock it down with nails and braid it with a "star".
Step 4
Next, make the legs of the chair: the length of the sticks for the front legs is 68 cm, and for the rear legs - 45 cm. Nail the legs with nails to the corners of the seat frame from the inside of the frame.
Step 5
At a height of 15 cm from the floor, nail the cross-piece to the legs. Spread the nailed front legs so that they are about 2 to 3 cm wider than the frame at the bottom. And in order for the front legs to always maintain this distance, nail the stick (at the end of the work it will need to be removed).
Step 6
Fasten the chair frame with stops. Also, with stops in the form of an arc, strengthen the cross-piece nailed to the legs on all sides. Moreover, cut their ends obliquely so that they lie on the cross as tightly as possible.
Step 7
Wrap tape around the mating points of the legs and the cross. Start wrapping around the bottom of the leg. Then go to the crosspiece. Tighten the tape with a loop, and nail the end of it with a small nail from the bottom to the cross. Next, take another tape and wrap all the stops.
Step 8
In order to weave the seat, nail two rods to the frame so that there is a gap between them. Wrap willow tape around the frame with twigs. Insert the risers cut obliquely into this gap.
Step 9
Braid the uprights into three rods with "string". Once the braid reaches the front legs, add one riser on either side of the frame. Next, weave 5 cm, then bend all the risers down and braid the added risers together with the chair legs with tape. Nail the end of the tape with nails.
Step 10
To weave the back of the chair, select rods that are thicker than for the seat, and nail them in pairs to the underside of the seat frame, as well as one rod at the front legs and around the entire frame, you should get 35-40 rods in total.
Step 11
Braid the uprights with four rods. Begin to weave it with two twigs with the apical (thinner) ends. Having strengthened the bottom of the risers in this way, leave the ends not braided 5-6 cm and at this height weave a "string" in two rods. When doing this, start braiding from the front legs. Attach one more twig to the back leg and continue braiding to the front leg.
