WEAVING LAUNDRY BASKETS

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The laundry basket, indispensable in the household, is a symbol of order in the house. Any self-respecting hostess appreciates these items and, of course, wants to have it at her disposal. Today we’ll try to do it with our own hands.

For this we need:
- cardboard (any, corrugated);
- wallpaper or paper for pasting the bottom of the basket;
- paper tubes (in our case, from check tape, white and stained with walnut stain);
- PVA glue;
- colorless quick-drying varnish (preferably acrylic glossy);
- fabric for textile liner.

We start by cutting the bottom of the future basket, we have a cardboard blank 23 x 35 cm in size. We cut 2 blanks from cardboard and 2 from decorative paper or wallpaper. We paste the wallpaper onto the cardboard of the photo, and on one of them we begin to stick the tubes.

We glue them with an interval of 1.5 - 2 cm, then glue the sheets of cardboard together, photos, be sure to place a load on them so that the tubes are well fixed between the cardboard sheets.

As soon as our future bottom dries, we begin to form the walls of the basket. All glued tubes are uprights and you need to put them perpendicular to the bottom. To do this, start each tube under the next bottom and bend up.

Having lifted all the racks, set the load to the bottom (best of all, a box that mimics the shape of a basket). It is convenient to control the stands on it, it is necessary that they stand straight and do not go to the side.

You can fix them with clothespins on top of the box with the load. It is better to install this whole design on a rotating "health disk" (it was produced in Soviet times), it makes it possible to freely work with each side of the basket.
Weaving begins with an ordinary gray rope. We use 2 colors: gray and white, and the type of weaving is rope. The first 4 rows are plain. Next, weave with a pigtail with tubes of gray and white.

We have a two-color weave 16 cm high, then weave again with a one-color rope to a height that suits.

On the sides of the basket we make handles, lifting the wicker rows on the racks to the desired height.

We finish weaving, cutting the racks to the height of the basket.

Now our preparation must be well lubricated with glue diluted in half with water, wait until it dries, but does not harden at all. In this condition, you can fix minor flaws and align the walls of the basket.

When our basket dries, we begin to varnish it. It is better to use aerosol acrylic varnish, it dries quickly and practically does not smell. Varnish the basket should be in 2-3 layers.
Now let's start decorating the basket. We cut out the textile liner. The pattern consists of 2 rectangles, the first - according to the size of the bottom, the dimensions of the second - the height of the basket and its perimeter. Do not forget to make allowances for seams in the second rectangle. We sew the liner, process the seams, and make out to your liking. On the sides you can slightly reduce the height of the liner. And now, our basket is ready.