Furniture from the vine do it yourself

Wicker furniture from the vine adorns and complements any interior, both classic and modern. If desired, thanks to creatively thoughtful design of such furniture, you can create a unique and unique style in the apartment or on the country site.

Description of furniture

Some lovers of natural furniture are perfected completely fill their home the interior objects from the vine. It can be not only rocking chairs, but also wicker cabinets, tables and racks. In any office or living room, on a veranda or summer terrace, such decor elements become the main leitmotif of the entire interior. At all times in Russia, people were engaged in the manufacture of household goods from the vine. These were lapties, vases, baskets, boxes and furniture. By its structure, the vine is very flexible and puffy, and also wonderfully holds the form. Masters from Europe also intercepted this craft largely due to the ecology of the feedstock, due to its plant origin.

Stylish chairs and tables are wonderful in conjunction with glass, metal and wood.

Weigh durable furniture from the vine is quite a bit, while it is capable of withstanding quite large loads - up to 200 kg. It is resistant to moisture and, with appropriate treatment, to the solar rays even in the hottest heat. This allows you to use such furniture by the pool, in the sauna, in the country of the river and so on.

With proper care and operation of wicker furniture, it is capable of listening to its owners of more than a quarter of a century. The traditional and most common models of furniture from the vine can be seen in the photo.

Weaving technique

Modern craftsmen learned to weave the vine with the most unusual ways. In many ways, the style of weaving depends on the elasticity of materials, as well as personal preferences of customers or masters. Products from the vine mainly weave in several ways:

• a simple weaving, in which the rod envelopes all the risers, both on the outside and internal;
• braid in checkerboard;
• weaving with two rods;
• weaving in three rods;
• sealing boards by pigtail;
• layer weaving, when the number of rods corresponds to the number of risers.

Advantages and disadvantages of furniture from the vine

The advantages of furniture from the vine:

• ecology of raw materials;
• unique style of wicker furniture;
• the combination of furniture from the vine is absolutely with any interior;
• the use of natural materials in the manufacture of furniture items;
• practicality and strength;
• durability (about 20 years);
• nice woody smell;
• lack of pests due to pre-processing of the vine;
• the furniture is well "breathing" and ventilated.

Disadvantages of wicker furniture:

• no matter how you try to protect furniture from the vine, under the prolonged exposure to sunlight, it is capable of burning, and sometimes even crack;
• furniture made of artificial rattan destroys in the rain;
• over the years, furniture (especially self-made) can break through;
• the main drawback is the high price of furniture from the vine.

Choosing the right rod

A high-quality rod for weaving relatively shallow openwork furniture should have a thin core. Ponds with thick core will be useful for the manufacture of arbors or fences. Another selection criterion is the size of the willow sheet. The wider sheet, the worse the vine will be bending, and vice versa.

The popular raw material for the manufacture of wicker furniture is rattan or tropical liana. Very militant material for weaving, as it has increased flexibility, a durable boron with soft wood and solid core. Rattan branches are smooth and do not have extra branches. Their length can be achieved 300 m.

Preparation of a vine for weaving

Given the parameters such as the quality of raw materials, its price, durability and practicality, for weaving furniture, specialists mainly use rattans or vine. Since rattan is a southern plant, which is rarely found in our territories, and it is not very profitable to buy it in the store, then for the manufacture of furniture from the vine, with their own hands, the masters are used mainly by IV branches. Willow of any varieties are suitable for this craft. It is necessary to harvest the raw materials from the end of autumn and until the end of winter due to the fact that during this period in the trees there is no sludge, thus there is an opportunity to prepare extremely high-quality material. Special secator for wood should be cut smooth, unbranched and long bars.

If in the future your wicker furniture will be on the street, it is better not to clean the cut branches from the peel. If your decor element is designed exclusively for decorating the room inside, then it is better to clean the vine. To do this, boil the freshly cut branches in water for 2 hours. Try to use greater and deep dishes to not bend the branches several times. After 2 hours, the peel from the branches will be easily separated.

Sofa from rattan do it yourself

To work on creating a sofa from the rattan you will need:

• vine;
• secator;
• pencil;
• knife;
• ruler;
• self-tapping screw, screwdriver;
• lobzik on a tree;
• varnish;
• morid;
• wooden sticks for the frame (2 cm thick);
• drill, drill.

Rattan Sofa Production Technology:

1. Before proceeding with weaving, carefully skill sticks for a sofa frame.
2. Vine also prepare. After tapping and remove the skin from it, wait for the complete drying of the materials.
3. To make a sofa seat frame, take 4 prepared sticks: 2 - 60 cm, and another 2 - 40 cm. While secure them with a screwdriver and screws in such a way that the rectangle turns out.
4. Then prepare the front legs. There will be 3, with a height that you yourself determine. But the standard height is 40 cm.
5. At the harvested carcass in the corners, attach a stick: two - along the edges, one - in the center.
6. If the height of the back of your sofa is 25 cm, together with the floor height to the seat, the rear sticks should be 65 cm. Memore and cut the jigsaw just such a length.
7. Self-draws attach 3 rear legs to a rectangular frame in the same principle as brapping and the front legs.
8. If you wish, you can connect the rear frame sticks with a common arc. So, the back of your sofa will have a rounded form. The length of the stick is about 100 cm, it must be screwed by self-taps to the tops of the two rear sticks in such a way that the arc is formed.
9. For greater strength, the feet of the sofa with additional sticks can be built among themselves.
10. The main frame is ready, now the rattan branches should be preside to produce flexible ribbons.
11. Chip can be performed with a knife. Gently top cut down long vine branches.
12. When everything is ready, it remains to make a frame. In this case, you can use the most different technique, but the easiest way to apply the method of simple weaving through one rack with two or three rods from the external and inner side.
13. Envelday the rod one stand in front, the next rack is rear, before the circuit of the circle. At the same time, so that the circle is closed, the racks should be an odd amount.
14. When you start weaving the next row, do not forget to ride the first rack from the opposite side, fixing each rack in the correct position.
15. In the case when the rod ended at its foundation, lay new ones for the same rack and refuel its ends inside.
16. After completing the frame of the frame, the sofa need to be covered with a mourn and then varnish. And when the design dries - it can be decorated with a foam seat, covered with beautiful cloth.

Coffee table from the vine do it yourself

In order to make a small braided coffee table, stock set of necessary tools:

• plywood sheet;
• 4 boards for the frame and as many bars for the legs;
• plates for plywood upholstery;
• 4 rods to fasten the legs of the table;
• bars and ribbons for braid.

Manufacturing technology:

1. From a thick plywood sheet, drink the rectangle of the desired size.
2. With the help of ribbons and rods from the willow, the loss of the canvas suitable in size plywood.
3. Carefully and little to fit the cloth to the tabletop with minor cloves and set it aside.
4. Now do the manufacture of underpants. Of 4 boards, make a frame of the table, to it, approach it 4 bars - the legs of the structure.
5. Additional branches, close the legs between themselves approximately in the middle of the Cross. After that, perform a winding of the design details by IV tapes.
6. Nails come to the frame of the tabletop.
7. Dry a wicker table and then cover it with a layer of varnish.

Grocery basket from the vine do it yourself

On the picnic and in the campaign, a compact basket from the vine will always be by the way, besides, such a simple product forces to make even novice masters. On the technology of weaving baskets, we will tell about:

1. To begin with, make a hoop from a thin venti rod. Bend it to the desired diameter, tie the ends with a screw ribbon, and cut the knife too much.
2. To create the foundation, start in turn torsing the vertical rods-racks to the hoop at the same distance from each other. Observe the straight angle.
3. Circle the truth's tail around the hoop and rod riser, press your fingers.
4. Observing the sequence, pass the next rod riser. As an example, weaving technology at the initial stage resembles a wreath of flowers from flowers.
5. It turned out an exemplary frame of a future basket. Start turning it out by taking advantage of the rods. Rows of rods pressed to each other more denser.
6. When you get to the bottom - hence the rods-risers and cut extra too long ends.
7. After that, braid the bottom of the basket of a thin vine.
8. Put the product of the product from the woven between satellite the rods. The basis of the handle is a thick rod, it needs to be wrapped over thin rods.
9. Tie the ends of the alignment and maintain them on both sides of the basket side.
10. As an additional decoration, you can use IV ribbons of different colors to climb them in the process of manufacturing the walls of the product.

Openwork loaf of a vine with their own hands

For the manufacture of bread mines, you will need to prepare one wicker dyshko round shape (diameter 15 cm), crossed (4x4), sticking sticks 55 cm long (19 pcs), thin rope bars, template-blank (diameter 20cm), plywood stand (diameter 14 cm). From the list of tools, grab with you awl, screwdriver, screws for 20 mm long, twine, varnish.

Production Stages:

1. Ready Dysheko Moisten to avoid damage to the weaving and attach it with screws to the blank. Height from the bottom to the blanks can be determined independently. Presumably it will be 6 cm.
2. The thick tips of the rods-risers sharpen the knife and insert in the bottom next to chopsticks.
3. Passatage squeeze risers at the base, raise the top and tie.
4. Then immediately at the bottom of the basket, we will fly away with rope in three rods, and make the walls in one rod with a height of 60 mm.
5. Standings Cancel in the form of an arc and gloss up the extra ends of each other.
6. Working with the vine, do not forget to wipe the twigs with a damp cloth, so they are not broken.
7. The height of the bread mineshes and bending bending lines the upper side of the template attached to the bottom at the very beginning.
8. When complete the weaving of the side, the blank can be removed.
9. Finished product for strength Cover varnish.

To take into account all the nuances in the manufacture of wicker furniture, as well as remember the sequence of performing a weaving procedure from the vine of various furniture, you can watching video.

Furniture care from a vine

The durability of wicker furniture from natural materials directly affects the correctness of the care. There are three main rules that must be observed when caring for furniture from the vine:

1. To prevent cracks on such furniture, it must be slightly moistened about or twice a month. Just cover the chair or table with a wet bedspread or sheet.
2. If your wicker headset is under the rain, leave it overnight in a dry and preferably ventilated room until complete drying.
3. Clean the vine from dust regularly. This can be done by the usual soft dry or moistened rag.
4. Saw and dirty places are simply removed by any soap solution. Fat can also be displayed using Talca.
5. In no case cannot be loaded with any wet wicker furniture. Otherwise, she can change its shape.