Nowadays, young people and older people are increasingly interested in how to make a bracelet from rubber bands. This funny piece of jewelry can be woven with your own hands or with the help of various devices - on a loom, fork or slingshot.
How to make a bracelet from rubber bands without a machine
To weave a bracelet without a machine, prepare 30-50 colored elastic bands (depending on how dense you want to make it). Take one elastic, twist it into a figure eight and pull it over your middle and index fingers. On top, put another one, already untwisted. Grab the first by the edges and carefully pull it through the second. Then repeat both steps with the following elastic bands and continue the chain of actions until you get the bracelet of the desired length and width. You can fasten its ends with a plastic hook or a small knot.
How to make a bracelet from rubber bands on a machine
There are many ways to make a rubber band bracelet on a loom. The simplest of them is similar to the previous method of weaving on the fingers, as a result of which a bracelet "dragon scales" is obtained. Make one row of rubber bands of the same color, placing them in the form of four eights through one. Apply a row of a different color to it, filling in the already missed columns, twisting the elastic bands away from you. Hook off the bottom stitches on the double stitch posts and pull this row down.
Continue your elastic bracelet on the loom, putting one simple ring on the double-loop posts, transfer the lower elastic bands to the upper ones. Going down, create another row of a different color, starting from the first column. Having reached the required number of rows, remove the outer loop and pull it over the adjacent post. Put the next loop on the left on the adjacent post. Thus, all loops should be on four posts so that they can be removed and secured with locks.
How to make a rubber band bracelet on a slingshot
Try to make a bracelet from elastic bands on a slingshot, preparing 25 elastic bands of one color and the same amount of another, an S-shaped clip and a slingshot for weaving. Take a rubber band of the same color and put the figure eight on the slingshot. Repeat the same with a different colored elastic band, but without twisting it. Repeat both steps again.
Grab the bottom elastic with your fingers or a crochet hook and lift up. Do the same on the other side. Pull the opposite color back on and repeat the previous steps. Continue the weaving process until you get the bracelet you want. Connect the ends with an S-shaped clip.
How to make a rubber band bracelet on a fork
There is an easy way to make a bracelet from rubber bands on a fork. Twist one rubber band into a figure of eight and slide it over the two center teeth of the fork. Repeat the action with two elastic bands of a different color, putting one of them on the two extreme teeth on the left and right. Pull out the first one by sliding the structure down. Pull another twisted elastic over the middle teeth. Gently lift the previous row, then repeat the entire sequence - one elastic in the center and two on the sides in the form of two rows for each color.
Finish the weaving of the elastic bracelet by transferring the outer loops to the middle teeth, and place the lower ones over the upper ones. Slip another elastic band, twisted in half, over the two center loops, and place the loops over it. Place the side loops one above the other so that a fastener is obtained. Now the finished elastic bracelet can be removed from the fork, straightened and fastened on the ends.
