How to make hamper baskets
June 23rd, 2015
You know things that a hamper basket consists of but do you know how you can make a hamper basket with paper at home? It isn’t very difficult but can be time consuming if you aren’t an arts and crafts fan. Even if you don’t want to make a basket at home, do give it a try sometime. Once you learn it well, you can be excellent at this art.
Follow these steps: –
Things you need –
- Strong glue
- Newspapers
- cutter and scissors
- a ruler to measure
- cardboard piece
- and a cloth piece
Procedure of making this basket:
1. You need to start with cutting long strips of newspapers. All should be of the same side. Fold them horizontally and make it into a round shape. This will give you a long pipe type tube.
2. Make several rolls. You can use glue to stick the edges at each ends of the rolls so that it doesn’t open up. Be gentle during this procedure.
3. For the base of the hamper basket, you need to cut two rectangles of the cardboard. The size depends on you.
4. Insert the tubes slowly in between the two pieces. Now slowly press the cardboard so that the tubes stick well.
5. If you want, you can use double sided tape to cover the remaining piece of cardboard which isn’t getting stuck properly with glue. Keep doing this and let the tubes dry for about an hour.
6. Now, start weaving and join two of the rolls together. This is like basic weaving but you have to be careful and you should know where to put the glue to stick them together. While you are making it, you will know which ends are coming out and where to put glue. It should look like a stitch.
7. As you weave it and twist it, keep in mind to pull it straight up and let the tubes be tight enough so it doesn’t come out at all.
8. In case you are tired with the process, take a break and use a clip to hold things in place otherwise you will have to go through the entire process again.
9. In the corners, do twist extra before you go around the other corner. Keep repeating this twist.
10. As you keep doing this, you will realise how easy it has become and it is flexible now that you have an idea about it.
11. Continue adding rows until you have had the desired height you want.
12. After sometime, cut the ends off the hanging out strips and stick them to the baskets sides. If you want, you can place a cloth piece on the cardboard inside so it looks presentable.
13. Finish off the process with polyurethane spray so that it protects the newspapers and stiffens it well. If the basket is spoilt, do not worry. Try again or else buy it from outside.
These strong baskets are useful when you send hampers by post.