Jute filigree: the subtleties of mastering the technique, schemes, easy master classes for beginners and photo ideas

The usual jute can be used as a material for creating beautiful interior items, gifts, panels.

Different bottles, perfume bottles, cardboard boxes in front of your eyes transformed into caskets, vases with fancy patterns, other interesting items. Simple materials found in every store nearby will be needed.

The peculiarity of the technique

In the past, craftsmen made amazing openwork things from strips of metal. This technique was called filigree. The ancestor of the word itself is Greek. It is translated as "to twist, knot".

Similar to it was the Old Russian verb "skat," so in Russian filigree is called "skan.

But even a simple twine can create fantastic patterns; you need to be patient and diligent. Obtained only from jute filigree threads are twisted and spun together, forming an airy pattern. To fix it glue is used.

Sketches take either ready-made, or invent themselves, if you have some experience in this direction. Having chosen a pattern, prepare a stencil, transfer it to the surface.

To perform an ornament there are two ways:

• Blotting the outline of the pattern. Even beginners will cope with this.
• Drenching both the pattern and the thread.
• The glue is soaked in small areas of the rope, so that it does not dry quickly. Then they start to form preconceived elements. The main thing in this case is speed. If the jute is dry, then the glue is applied. Using an ordinary toothpick, the glue is smoothed over the previously prepared sketch, and the elements are applied, using tweezers. Patterns are made by helping with the awl.

When the work is done, begin to dry the product. Objects that do not have volume, put for 6 hours under something heavy, be sure to put planks between them. Volumetric items are left to dry without tools.

Then clean the product from excess glue. Using a stationery knife, carefully get rid of large remnants, and between the patterns use a heated needle.

The finished product is coated with acrylic varnish for durability. If the product consisted of several parts, all this is assembled together, and then decorated with beads, beads, marbles.

Materials and tools for work

For jute filigree you will need:

• jute;
• glue;
• scissors;
• tweezers;
• toothpicks or wooden shish kebab sticks;
• a box cutter;
• plank;
• Various decorations in the form of pebbles, beads, beads, buttons, etc;
• varnish

Jute

This is the most important material for work. Represents a linen thread, which is intended for use in the home or in construction, so you can buy jute in any store for repairs or hardware store.

The thread is grayish in color, twisted from several fibers, a little shaggy. This material easily takes different shapes, can be dyed, acquires stiffness.

Twine differs in diameter, for filigree should choose a twist of two strands. Preference should be given to rope in bobbins, not tubs. This is due to the quality of the threads and the winding.

Before work, it is recommended to wash the material, it will help to avoid a gray stain on the hands, wash out all foreign particles in the form of sticks and grains.

And the rope itself will become round and less fluffy, it will be more convenient to work. To do this, the twine is coiled in a sheaf, put in a solution with powder for 1-2 hours, then you can rub it a little, take it out and hang it up to dry.

Dyeing the twine is possible with acrylic paints or bleach. Also dilute in hot water food coloring with a spoonful of vinegar, dip the jute in it, and leave it for a few hours. After a while, the thread will be the color you need.

Glue

Experienced needlewomen give preference to glue like Titan. He is a transparent thick liquid with a pungent odor. When solidified, it becomes invisible, it is easily applied, dries quickly, and is perfectly distributed on film and other surfaces.

But to then clean your hands without problems, you need to smear them with a thick cream or quickly wash your hands with hot water before the glue hardens.

Scissors

The cutting tool should work well, be sharp. Suitable for manicures. Needed when removing glue in the final stage.

Tweezers .

The device helps in the formation of the pattern, they can correct something when shifting or lay out the small parts of the handicraft.

Skewers, toothpicks

Toothpicks correct patterns if they moved during laying. Skewers are needed to create additional details such as legs and others. They are sold at any home improvement store.

Stationery knife.

This tool is used to trim excess, remove glue, base. Must be sharp enough. Available at every office supply store.

Chalkboard

Often used in place of a press. May be small. Sometimes you will need several pieces. If not, you can use old shelves sawn to size or ask someone you know.

Decor

As decorations use anything that happens to be on hand or in the nearest retail chains. These are beads, marbles, buttons, shells, rhinestones.

You can take apart old beads, if any. Glass pebbles, can be found in pet stores. Rhinestones, buttons, beads in craft stores.

Lacquer

Necessary for the final stage of manufacture. They cover the product so it does not lose its appearance, does not get wet, and acquires stiffness. Generally use acrylic varnish, you can replace it with PVA glue.

Jute filigree for beginners: schemes of patterns and stencils

Without a pre-drawn pattern and stencil, it is difficult to form the necessary curls. Therefore, before proceeding to the manufacture, it is necessary to think of or take ready-made ornaments, having made sketches on paper.

For convenience, A4 paper is taken and inserted into a multiphorn of the same size. It allows patterns to be well fixed, does not shift and does not crumple.

To create a stencil, imagination and components in the form of:

• blank paper;
• a pencil and a felt-tip pen;
• eraser.

Conditions for creating a stencil:

1. If you don't have your own ideas, books or the Internet can help. Knowing the basic elements, in the future it will not be difficult to come up with your own sketch.
2. For beginners, it is better to draw patterns with a pencil, correct them by removing unnecessary elements with an eraser. The finished drawing is outlined, using a felt-tip pen.
3. If the future construction of jute will be three-dimensional in one thread, the pattern should have enough density to make the product durable. If you use jute ribbons, you can give more airiness to the ajour as the product will be stiff.
4. The lines of the pattern should be bold so that the stencil can be viewed well through the tape.
5. Drawing the pattern, you need to consider symmetry, but you can stick to your idea, so that everything looks harmonious.

If you cannot draw your stencil the first time, do not despair, a little training, and the pattern is ready.

Products

Jute filigree provides a huge field for imagination. Items range from lampshades to animal figures. For beginners, it is best to make small, uncomplicated pieces first, but as you gain experience, you may want to go for larger pieces.

Lampshade

Lampshade - it is always a necessary and useful thing in the house, and if you make it in the technique of jute filigree, it will serve as a great decoration. The lamp can be strict or openwork, in the oriental style, it all depends on the conceived.

To make it you will need:

• A glass bowl to form patterns;
• luminaire;
• jute thread;
• glue;
• a piece of thick cardboard;
• duct tape;
• brushes, paints, acrylic varnish;
• various decorations: marbles, stones, beads.
• paper to wrap the base.
• multiphora.

Fulfillment:

1. For the base, cardboard is attached to the bottom of the bowl, circled. It turns out a small bagel. Cut it out. On it begin to lay out the jute in a circle, each fixed with glue. Grease both the cardboard and the thread. In this way work to the end of the circle.
2. The base is attached to the bowl, glued. They take the glass pebbles, fix them with glue near the bottom. Around the marbles smeared with glue, put a string around the stone. The same string is pulled down, soaking the glue, put the next marbles, wrapped around the bottom, the next will frame the top. The resulting layer is reinforced with glue, repeat all steps, as when working with the first layer. For contrast, you can use jute of different colors.
3. Under the marbles on a pre-drawing, lay two strips of jute. Each completed layer is glued again.
4. On a bowl fitting strip of the diameter of the bowl with a pre-drawn pattern. It is glued to the base. For better fit strip cut, impose layers of paper on each other. The picture is glued with tape.
5. Formed jute ribbons. On the multiphora with pre-applied glue laid two strands close together. The top is smeared with glue, distributed along the length of the threads. The dried tapes are removed from the file, put between the fingers, pull through. If everything is already dried, then apply glue again. Lay out the tapes in the pattern all the way to the end, not forgetting the glue. Tweezers are used to correct any irregularities.
6. When finished, fill the voids with marbles, beads, and wrapped segments of twine.
7. After the pattern, two jute edgings are made again, using glue. On the basis of indented a little space to form a gap, wrap a bowl of rope 4-5 times, gluing it. The strip should turn out like a small protrusion. In the voids are placed glass pebbles, wrapped with string by analogy with the first row. All dabbed with glue. The last row is also decorated with marbles, similar to the previous ones.
8. The finished construction is abundantly smeared with glue. Wait for it to dry, carefully, picking up the holes with a sharp object, remove the base. If there is any excess glue, remove it.
9. The base from the lamp is screwed into the upper hole and the bulb is inserted. The product can be placed on a table or hung. Cute lamp shade ready.

Napkin holder

The device for napkins should not only perform its direct function, but also decorate the table. Very beautiful openwork napkin holders are obtained with jute filigree.

Materials and tools will be required, represented by:

• jute;
• scissors;
• needle;
• tweezers;
• glue;
• hand cream to make it easier to remove the glue;
• nail polish; brushes;
• skewers;
• wooden beads with a diameter of 1 cm;
• burlap.

Stages of work:

1. On paper draw a suitable ornament with all the dimensions.
2. Leaf with the pattern is inserted into the multiphorn.
3. Lubricate with glue pattern, then jute. Lay out according to the stencil.
4. Fill the pattern by cutting unnecessary twine. Correct deficiencies with a needle.

Work this way until the pattern is complete, remembering to smudge the file and thread while doing each element:

5. For stiffness on the resulting ornament, put several layers, repeating the pattern.
6. At the end, wooden beads are strung on sections of thread, filling the voids. Any excess is removed with scissors. Tweezers correct all the elements.
7. Proceed to make the frame. In a cardboard 14 cm long and 3.5 cm wide cut corners. Then this piece is glued on both sides of the burlap. A frame for a napkin holder is obtained.
8. Make a jute ribbon of two threads. The length of each should be 18 cm. It should be two. The office film is dabbed with glue along the length of the ribbons, put two segments in a row next to each other. The resulting ribbons are removed from the film, attached to a base of cardboard at the edges. The workpiece is now flat.
9. From the skewers prepare 4 sticks of 10 cm each. They are necessary for the formation of the legs of the future product. Stick, thread smeared with glue. A bead is put on top, so that the thread is inside it. The whole skewer is wrapped with rope, each turn is glued. Thus performed all four legs.
10. Detail of the pattern dries, remove it, trim unnecessary. Fitting the basis. Mark holes for the feet, making, using an awl, help nail scissors. Insert the legs. On the second side do the same. Secure the resulting feet with glue from the outside and inside.
11. The edges of the base, the protruding parts of the legs are covered with glue, they are attached to each side of the pattern.
12. The original table decoration is ready.

Clock

Clocks made of jute will attract not only by figuring out the time, but also by their strangeness, beauty.

For a chic interior piece you need to get hold of:

• A base. It can be a ready-made purchased circle or cut out of chipboard of the desired size.
• Jute of different colors;
• burlap;
• A clock mechanism, which you can buy in craft stores or dismantle old, boring clocks.
• paper;
• file;
• scissors;
• with a large needle;
• tweezers;
• glue;
• wooden beads, coffee beans.

Making:

1. Begin laying out the rope in a circle, starting at the center of the clock base, pre-lubricated with glue. Each layer is glued. So form a circle, filling the entire center.
2. On the remaining sides glue the burlap in the form of semicircles. The ends are decorated with jute threads.
3. Draw the desired pattern on paper or print out a finished one. Inserted in the multiphora. Put glue on top, also do the same with the rope. Shape an ornament. For hardness, the pattern is made of several layers of twine. Again pass the glue on all the elements to fix. Drying.
4. The dried piece is removed, remove the remains of glue. Help the soldering iron. Glue parts to the base.
5. Decorate with coffee beans, beads. Cover the product with diluted PVA glue. Wait for drying.
6. Attach clock mechanism on the back side, hands.
7. Beautiful clockwork is ready.

Jute decorative items

Twine comes in handy for creating some trinkets or elements for decorating objects.

It can be small flowers, panels, leaves, feathers, angels, and much more. For example, a jute butterfly serves as a great decoration for curtains, panels or hairpins.

To work on the winged beauty, it is recommended to take care of finding:

• jute;
• glue;
• file;
• ready template of a butterfly with an ornament;
• scissors;
• varnish.

Creation:

1. The pattern of the butterfly is placed in the file, it is covered with glue on top. The thread is processed as well.
2. Begin laying out the twine. Cut the thread at an angle to avoid unraveling. The pattern is formed of several layers, so that the butterfly is strong. Especially the joints in the wings require this.
3. The finished insect is coated with varnish or PVA glue twice.
4. Leave the handicraft to dry. After that, remove it from the multiphorn, use it for its intended purpose. If the butterfly was conceived as a hairpin element, it is glued to a metal base.

By analogy with the butterfly, you can create other decorative elements, just pick up a suitable stencil.

The casket .

Boxes created in the technique of jute filigree, attracting its openwork, weightlessness. Such a craft can well serve as a great gift for mom, girlfriend. Jewelry will also be comfortable in such a "house".

The creation of a casket will require the availability of:

• jute;
• glue;
• scissors;
• heavy cardboard, possibly wrapping cardboard;
• beads or marbles;
• varnish.

Execution:

1. From cardboard, cut out a circle of the desired diameter.
2. Coating the base and the cord with glue, form turns, ensuring that the glue is fixed.
3. When they reach the edges of the circle, begin to decorate them, moving up. So form 4 turns.
4. Beads are wrapped in several layers of twine with glue. Such elements will need a lot.
5. On the resulting ledge glued wrapped beads. Fix four more jute strips on top.
6. From the three-strand tapes begin to form the droplets. The number depends on the chosen diameter. Finished droplets are connected to the base with glue. On top of the jute ribbon is put on again. On it again the beads. On top of attach two or three strips.
7. Large beads wrapped strip of two threads, forming a ring. Attached to the ring are droplets. The edges are trimmed with burlap ribbon. On top of the beads in the twine. Then there are 2-3 layers of ribbon. The ring is attached small droplets of three-stranded burlap. In the hole fix a large bead.
8. Do not forget to fix the handicraft lacquer twice. After drying, the casket is ready.

Vase

Vases, made with the help of jute filigree, are in harmony with the interiors of different styles, serve as an excellent decoration, suitable for gifts.

To create them you will need:

• cord;
• glue;
• scissors;
• a container in the form of a vase for the base;
• a sheet of paper, a pencil;
• multiphora;
• varnish or PVA glue;
• rhinestone decor

Implementation:

1. Prepared container, it can be a plastic bottle, begin to wrap jute, pre-lubricated with glue thread and base. Start wrapping with the bottom, with each turn use glue. Thus wrap the vase to the top.
2. Prepared figure put in the file, blot it and the thread with glue, begin the work. The layout depends on the chosen pattern. When creating each piece do not forget to lubricate the pattern with glue, together with the thread.
3. Lay the elements several times for greater rigidity. After finishing the laying, the product is left to dry.
4. The pattern is removed from the multiphorn, remove the glue surplus, help with a soldering iron.
5. The finished ornament is glued to the vase. In addition to it right on the vase form scrolls, other elements.
6. After drying the decor, removing the glue, varnish the handicraft for 2-3 times. After waiting for drying, decorate the vase with rhinestones.
7. The decoration for the interior is ready.

Vases can be completely made of jute filigree, it is necessary to choose a pattern, decide how many parts the vessel will consist of, make approximate calculations, everything else is done like this.

Or entirely lay out the details on the basis and then remove, as in the case of the lampshade.

Figurines of animals

Jute filigree is suitable for making openwork figures of animals, which will perfectly enliven a dull room. There are many variations. They can be flat as well as volumetric.

Dolphins, cats, peacocks - not a complete list of interesting trinkets. For volumetric animals will require a base on which the jute will be attached.

For example, for a fish need:

• jute;
• glue;
• a stencil with a pattern;
• a base in the form of the body of the fish, it can be made from a newspaper;
• multiphora;
• scissors;
• varnish.

Creation sequence:

1. The finished fish carcass is wrapped in food film. Cover the figure and thread with glue, start forming patterns depending on the chosen ones. These can be swirls, droplets, and others.
2. After filling the body, add elements in several layers, so that the creation was strong.
3. Take scissors, in the area of the belly of the fish make a cut, pull out the base. Parts of the openwork abdomen glued.
4. Shape the fins and tail. Finished parts are dried, then cleaned of excess glue.
5. Start assembling. Glued all the components in the attachment points fins, go through once more twine, that is wrapped once again.
6. Glued eyes - rhinestones or beads.
7. Cover the figure with lacquer.
8. Admire the beauty.

So, jute filigree allows you to create works of art with just twine and glue, which will decorate your room, serve as a gift or just to attract them by its lightness, weightlessness.

It is important that everyone can create such beauty with proper skill and diligence.

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