Crafts from droppers: step by step instructions of weaving

Very often during the Soviet era, unusual objects appeared in the eyes of fish, frogs, robots, etc., which were made from the most common droppers. What did not invent the craftsmen who lay in the hospital wards. The tubes were painted with iodine, zelenka or potassium permanganate.

The craftsmen constantly improved their skills and created a wide variety of crafts from droppers: trinkets, pendants, pens and fish in this case are not the limit of perfection. Now this skill can be called dying out. He was replaced by ready-made more elegant sets for weaving of plastic threads with additional accessories, but the principle remained unchanged.

What can be made from droppers

The process of this needlework is to create simple knots and interlacing, which are borrowed from macrame. These simple tricks help create original and beautiful compositions. After a little training, you can create different animals, pendants, bracelets, and this is not the whole list.

Talented masters create entire installations from droppers. However, newcomers of this business should first of all study the schemes and try themselves in making the simplest craft from the dropper, the instruction in this case will become the main assistant.

Funny devil from the dropper

Such knickknacks were made very often. Everything depended on the flight of imagination and sleight of hand. A fascinating process could brighten up the time spent in the hospital. The main thing - to find a dropper.

The easiest way is to make a handle, around the paste we made a square weave, and everything is ready. In the same way, you can make a cute devil, adding to the wicker head, legs, hands and tail.

Crafts from a dropper: a master class for making a devil

Naughty devils can be obtained by following the step by step recommendations:

• The first thing to do is to make pens and legs. To do this, cut two pieces of a dropper of the required length. After that, using small scissors, plastic tubes are cut in a spiral, moving in a circle. To begin this work follows, having departed from the beginning about two sm, the tip is excised with scissors, imitating fingers. Indentation is needed first to attach parts to the body.
• The trunk and head of the devil are woven equally in the form of a Chinese knot. Two tubes are laid crosswise, resulting in four working tips. The first tube is placed on the second from above, the second on the third from above, the third on the first down and into the loop. The tips are laid out in a square, they all need to be pulled up a bit. Similar manipulations are repeated until the parts are of the required length. Creating such crafts from droppers, the main thing - do not forget to insert the handles and legs in the right places.
• The head to the body is attached with a needle from the dropper, removing its tip. The part can be planted directly in the center or slightly forward.
• Completing the work, the remaining tips on the body are pruned, and on the head, two tips are cut to the root, and the other makes horns, cutting them diagonally.

Making an artifact from a dropper with your own hands: a goldfish

About twenty years ago, fish from droppers could be found everywhere. But, unfortunately, the time has passed, and the goldfish swam away. However, you can ponostalgirovat and remember these simple crafts, besides a similar master class can be used for classes with children, they will be delighted by the amusing figures.

Instructions for the manufacture of fish

1. Such crafts from droppers can be made by yourself. The first thing to do is make a base, for which two tubes of 35 cm long are used.
2. One of the tubes is cut from both sides. On the one hand - on eight strips of 10 cm in length, on the other - into four bands of fifteen inches. Similarly, the second tube is cut.
3. Next, make an eye, in the future when weaving it is necessary to take into account its size. To do this, a wheel is useful, which regulates the frequency of droplets, as well as two tubules five and three centimeters in length.
4. Tubes cut along the entire length, on a small make a fringe - it will serve as eyelashes.
5. The cilia are placed on the ringlet, then a long tube is wound around the resulting base. It should be borne in mind that the cut piece will be twisted, so it needs to be wound up so that the strip is bent not to the eye, but to the outside.
6. After this, you should start making the base of the fish. A long tube from the second dropper should be cut along the entire length, in addition, two tubes, which were prepared earlier, will be needed. They wind the resulting stripe several times, thereby securing them together. After that, both tubes are twisted in turn, using a braiding in the form of a figure-eight.
7. After that, two tubules-bases are twisted together, creating a shape of the fish taking into account the place on the eye. The remaining tails need to be fixed, for this they are sent along the sides in the direction of the tail and grabbed by a strip when weaving the figure-eight.
8. It remains to insert the eye and fix it with the help of additional eights.

Creating such crafts from droppers, you should think about additional decorative elements. You can make a crown, also carving a part from the dropper. The tail and fins are scrolled with scissors, and the goldfish is ready.