Jute craft ideas

Recently more and more handicraft lovers have been fond of creating jute products. Many find interesting and new applications for durable natural materials.

Jute is a plant fiber from which strong yarns, ropes and ropes are made. Working with jute yarn is not very difficult and does not require experience. But for beginners, a bit of patience is needed, especially for making light and patterned filigree. It's easier to get started with jute fiber with the simplest crafts.

Easily processed jute threads are effectively combined with other materials: burlap, ribbons of different textures, lace, artificial flowers.

Jute, like twine, is distinguished by its high strength and extreme wear resistance. Original gizmos with an original design, created from such threads, harmoniously fit into the interior, decorated in ethnic, eco-style. Wonderfully complement the country direction.

From strong and rather smooth ropes of various thicknesses and jute ropes, truly attractive and effective crafts are obtained. For this, different techniques are used..

• Winding... The easiest way to use jute. They are wrapped around various things, cleverly hiding inconspicuous or worn out surface.

• Macrame... A simple technique of openwork weaving for creating translucent elements from jute threads of different diameters.

• Filigree... This technique involves using pieces of rope to create intricate curls and patterned monograms.They are used to decorate products.

Jute thread crafts require a strong frame. For this, it is important to select the thickest thread section. Thin strings are ideal for decoration, and most of the work needs to be done from tight twine.

The work uses auxiliary inventory:

• strong adhesive with a transparent structure;

• tweezers;

• scissors (clerical knife).

At the finishing stage, a thick needle, crochet hook, varnish may be required.

Those who want to devote time to this hobby and create a lot with their own hands are advised to acquire additional decor in the form of rhinestones, sequins, beads, ribbons and others.

To make a support for the dishes, you need to roll the rope in a spiral, like a flat plate. For the reliability of fastening the elements, jute must be coated with hot glue and fixed tightly.

When the required diameter is reached, cut the rope, glue the end.

After a few hours, the stand can be used for its intended purpose.

Jute needlework can also be used to create unusual accessories and jewelry. For example, decorate bracelets with twine, or make unusual earrings. The ethnic style is often found in brooches and braided necklaces.

For example, to decorate the photo, you only need a clasp, jute and beads. Several threads are gathered in a bundle, some are strung with beads, and in some places careless knots are tied. Fasteners are attached at the edges - and you can try on a stylish little thing!

In addition to funny magnets, small baskets, toys and other knickknacks, you can invite your child to do a practical thing.

You will need:

• cardboard sleeves, a sheet of cardboard;

• leg-split;

• Crochet hook;

• scissors;

• glue "Titan";

• decorations.

Weave a pigtail from jute threads. Cut a circle of the desired size from the cardboard for the stand. Glue twine on it from the center to the edge, decorate with a pigtail.

Glue over the edging of the bushings with pigtails and wrap 2 large bushings and 1 small one.

Draw pieces of paper on A4 sheet, put the paper in the file. Glue the leaves with twine. Decorate the stand with decor.

Grease the bottom of the cups with glue, fix them on a stand.

Jute thread makes gift boxes and photo frames beautifully. Wreaths woven from twine with decorations corresponding to the style of the idea look festive.

Hand-made gifts are appreciated for the fact that attention, warmth is invested in them, they are created with a soul.

Hand-made Christmas tree toys have a special energy. Products from thin jute twine look stylish. They look magical in contrast to rhinestones and festive decor.

Foam or plastic balls are suitable as a basis for making New Year's toys. The cheapest and even defective. Since their surface will be decorated anyway.

Jute is laid out on balls in the form of an ornament, snowflakes, flowers and other things. Or wrapped on a glue base and decorated to your taste. It turns out spectacularly.

Particularly relevant Christmas tree crafts - angels... You will need a glue gun for assembly. To make the angels, you just need to wind the twine with a cone, form a round head (apply glue and jute on a wooden ball), glue the blanks in the form of wings, add details. Lace, delicate beads, silk ribbons - everything is appropriate and welcome!

This jute craft will be a great gift for any woman.

You will need:

1. jute thread;

2. glue gun;

3. empty container;

4. wine cork;

5. decorative paint.

The plastic container must be wrapped with cling film to protect it from hot glue.

Starting from the bottom, the front surface of the container is covered with jute. The winding continues to the top.

The lid is formed spirally from glued twine.

A half of a wine cork is attached to its top, curls are laid out of rope pieces to decorate the product.

The basket is carefully removed from the container, the film is removed.

Required materials and inventory:

1. any capacity;
2. rope;
3. glue and knife (scissors).

Treat the container with glue. Wrap the twine carefully and very tightly, moving from the bottom to the neck.

Cut the thread, grease liberally with glue and hide the edge discreetly. Decorate a dried product.

Jute thread looks brutal and therefore suitable for gifts for men.

Jute applications are very interesting.... For example, in the form of a tank or an airplane. Even a child can cope with such a task.

But making a volumetric tank is already much more difficult.

So, for work you will need:

1. any suitable boxes;

2. twine;

3. thick cardboard;

4. muzzle tube;

5. any round rivets, buttons for wheels;

6. reliable glue;

7. various metal objects for other elements.

Wrap all items with thin twine, trying to lay the threads evenly and without gaps. Cut a wide strip of cardboard to form caterpillars, wind the threads around the blank. Wrap it up to form a caterpillar.

Make wheels in a similar way, glue a metal rivet in the middle of each. Glue the wheels to the body.

Now you need to assemble the tank. At the joints, you will have to additionally lay a rope, or use a braid.

Decorate a tank with additional items.

Here are some examples of crafts for this holiday.

On Easter, believers bring Easter and painted eggs to the church to consecrate them for a festive fasting after Lent. It is proposed to create a hand-made jute basket for such a significant event.

The product is easy to make in different ways. For example, take a 3 liter bucket of paint and tie a jute cover under it. It must be adapted to a plastic base with a glue gun, the inner part sewn from cotton fabric. Decorate the edge with lace and flowers.

Those who do not know how to knit and do not want to master this science can simply paste over a bucket of suitable displacement with a thick rope. The handle is easy to braid with a pigtail or otherwise. Make two leatherette handles or adjust the wire when wrapping.

Crafts from jute threads in the form of Easter eggs also look very beautiful and natural. These can be glued variations or wickerwork, filigree-style Easter eggs.

There are also a lot of options for decorating such crafts. Openwork coasters for jute eggs are especially beautiful. And if you add small chickens or rabbits to them, you get a wonderful festive composition. And the jute mill in the background looks very nice.

Jute can be used to create many stylish items for a modern interior. One of the most successful and highly demanded ideas is the pots.

It is convenient to make them in different techniques: macrame, knitting, filigree and the simplest one - glue-based winding. Flower pots look especially organic in them.

From strong twine it turns out to make such a useful little thing as a housekeeper.

You can start acquaintance with the material and crafts from jute with the simplest options. Making such a candlestick can be quick and easy. You only need unnecessary glass jars or glasses. For example, baby food containers.

Glue is applied to 1/2 of the surface below and in the area of ​​the neck. A jute thread is wound around it. Decorations are made from seashells.But coffee beans, beads, buttons and everything that is at hand are also suitable for use.

More complex, but very refined candlesticks are obtained, made using the filigree technique.

Decorating bottles with this material is an exciting experience. Any novice master can handle it. You will need glue and strong twine. A base made of glass or plastic is coated with glue and wrapped with twine. Filigree flowers made of rope yarn and burlap are glued on top. Or coffee beans in a beautiful pattern. The decor is determined according to your taste.

An openwork samovar, a screen, a fan and masks made of jute thread look more filigree. But for their manufacture it takes much more time and a certain skill. It is recommended that you first practice the simpler techniques and elements.

They can be purely decorative, fake detail, or a real clock showing real time.

For the first option, you need arrows and coffee beans. You can lay out a dial or a coffee cup from them. Time to drink coffee!

In the second option, it is enough to buy a simple wall clock and decorate it with a tourniquet, gluing it in a circle. Decorate the top arbitrarily, to your taste.

The most durable, but dimensional, is a pouf based on a tire. And you will also need 2 circles of MDF with a thickness of 1 cm - for the bottom and seat.

The diameter of the circles should be 2-3 cm less than the diameter of the tires. They are attached to the tires with self-tapping screws. The frame is wrapped with thin foam rubber on the sides and more dense foam in the seat area.

The twine is attached with a glue gun over the entire surface of the tires. It is desirable to varnish the finished model. The structure can be completed with low legs.

A small ottoman is made from plastic bottles (2 l, 1.5 l). Empty containers in the amount of 14 pcs. should be uniform in shape, with caps tightly screwed on.

The container is connected with tape: a pair of 2 bottles, a pair of 3 bottles, 1 blank of 4 bottles. 2 identical oval parts of plywood are created along the diameter of the bottom of the frame. This will be the bottom and seat. They are secured with double-sided tape. Everything is covered with corrugated cardboard and pasted over with twine. The product can withstand the weight of a seated person up to 70 kg.

The beautiful and durable tray is surprisingly easy to DIY in just one evening.

On a piece of thick cardboard, using a thermal gun, jute twine is laid out in the shape of an oval until the workpiece is of the desired size. All unnecessary is cut off.

Weave a long pigtail from the twine and glue it to the sides of the tray being formed. In the places of the intended handles, the pigtail must be slightly raised.

For strength, you can glue a second pigtail on top.

Attach a piece of burlap to the back of the cardboard, flatten and glue. Cut off excess matter.

Decorate the joints of burlap and cardboard with a jute pigtail.

For the carpet, you need a rather thick fiber, which is simply folded in a spiral and fastened together with strong threads. The rug can be decorated with applications, or you can leave it in its original form.

The mat will become a very useful item. It gently massages the legs, helping to restore blood circulation.

For a small rug, you can use a thinner jute. It doesn't have to be round. Oval and rectangular options are popular.

Even children can make a translucent lampshade. To create a lampshade, you need an inflated balloon, generously greased with glue. A jute rope is wound on it in an arbitrary direction.

When the glue dries, the ball must be carefully removed, the cartridge must be threaded on top of the craft, and the light bulb must be screwed in. Now the product can compete with the eco-style chandelier sold in stores. You just need to control the safety of the wires, the jute burns very easily.

Lamps made of combined natural materials look beautiful: burlap, twine, cotton lace and others. They are decorated with roses, lilies and other flowers made of thin jute or burlap.

One of the most popular home furnishings crafts. To make such a charm, you will need a piece of burlap, braid and jute twine.

The torso with the head is sewn in arbitrary sizes and shapes. Often this is done even without patterns and templates. You can put buckwheat, rice, pearl barley inside. Or fill the figure with padding polyester. For pendants, it is better to choose the latter option. Only standing crafts are stuffed with cereals.

The legs are made of burlap. Brownie's hair and beard are made from loose jute fibers. Hands - a braided jute braid or just pieces of rope. It will be convenient to weave a piece of wire into them. Then the limbs will be flexible, and you can hand a bump, red pepper, whisk or other decor to the brownie.

Jewelry - to your taste: braid, dried flowers, buttons, coffee beans. Eyes are usually attached ready-made or sewn from felt.

It is symbolic to fix the brownie on a jute horseshoe. It is very easy to do, you just need to make a base for the craft. For example, using thick wire or a dense cardboard frame.

The house keeper is often combined with a souvenir bast shoe. You can weave it from jute according to the scheme. Or cut out a bast shoe pattern and put a braided pattern on the glue-coated surface.

In fact, when jute appears in the hands, imagination itself suggests options for products from it. All of them turn out to be original and cozy at home.

You need to prepare:

• a roll of twine;

• cardboard;

• pencil;

• cocktail tubes;

• glue like "Titanium";

• coffee beans;

• scissors.

Cut out blanks from thick cardboard - wheels. One piece will need 2 cardboard pieces glued together. You need 3 of these wheel bases.

Wrap all the workpieces with thin twine.

Take a cocktail tube, measure 2 cm to the fold and the same amount below it, cut off - you get the spokes of the wheel. One wheel needs 4 blanks, that is, 12 pieces. Wrap all parts with twine.

Glue 4 of them together and insert into a cardboard circle wrapped in twine. The wheel is done.

Place whole coffee beans on one side of the bicycle wheel.

On a cocktail tube, measure 2 cm to the fold and 3 cm below the fold, cut off. Make 2 such parts for the steering wheel and fasten them together. Wrap with twine.

Take a cocktail tube, measure out 11 cm. This blank will hold the parts of the rear wheels together.

Bend one tube and stretch it at the fold. Cut the tube on the short side, drip glue and insert a piece from the blanks for the wheels there.

Wrap the structure with twine. Make a second such blank in the same way.

Insert a straight tube into the rear wheels and glue.

Insert the two previous blanks into the front wheel, glue it for reliability. Decorate the front wheel.

Insert a 2 cm piece of tube between the upper tubes and glue, wrap with twine.

Take a container for pots. Wrap in twine and garnish with whole coffee beans.

Glue the steering wheel and pots. Insert flowers into it.

Choose a stencil with the outline of a beautiful butterfly. Place it in a multiforme and apply glue along the contour with a toothpick, from the base of the picture to its edges.

It is important to start a craft with large parts. Haste when twisting the thread is unacceptable. It takes time for it to absorb the glue.

A symmetrical element must be laid out of the rope on the glued contour. It is important to hold the jute by pressing it with tweezers in the joint area.

It is very popular to make jute magnets - symbols of the year. For example, in the year of the bull it will be useful to learn how to make crafts in the form of this animal.For many of them, diagrams are not needed, but only an example with a photo of the finished product. In addition to jute rope and hot melt glue, you will need magnets and decorative elements for the eyes and details.

It can be a separate muzzle of a bull or a full-fledged figurine. Various designs, sizes and decorations are used. It all depends on individual perseverance, imagination, availability of material and time to be carried away by jute crafts.

7 jute craft ideas in the video below.