Plastic Bag Weaving Instructions

First put the spiral pin side down on an iron safe surface.

Plastic bag weaving instructions.

Choose bags of different colors to add variety and reflect your taste. Recycled plastic bag rainbow weaving. Weaving on a frame loom or the marth steward loom with pegs on only the longest edge. Instead of throwing unwanted plastic bags away and potentially harming the environmen.

You should have a large enough sheet so that there is overlap all around. Stop with the whining about using new bags already. Did you know that plastic bags can take up to 1 000 years to decompose. Working with my hands and creating something beautiful is the best kind of therapy.

Follow these simple instructions for plastic bag weaving below. Bags and a big piece of cardboard to shape the rug are the only supplies you ll need. Tuck it in securely so it doesn t unravel. Unwanted plastic bags can make fantastic eco mats for the garden and it s a great way to have fun recycling.

All bags are used bags i have cut and stored flat. Weave a rug out of plastic bags for an inexpensive and creative custom look. Lots of plastic bags with as many different colours as possible. The concentration and meditative state that comes from repetitive but complicated work is a study in mindfulness and there is also the satisfaction that comes from a finished product.

Plastic bag weaving by lily mcguire and tiffany greenoak published 7 july 2020. Stop weaving when the purse half is as large as you want and cut off the weaving strip at an edge. Once you ve pinned the bags into the proper spiral you re ready to fuse the backing on. This will make the coils of the basket tighter and more dense than simple braids and very thin strips of plastic bag can even be twined into string for stitching the coils together.

Hook the loop of the beginning chain over the first peg on the longest side. Also for a taller or wider basket you could weave the coils around 6 sticks placed around the circumference of the basket s base. How to make a sleeping mat or rug using plastic. Weave the strips of plastic bag until the piece is as large as you desire.

The backing is simply another plastic bag split open. Loop plastic bags together until you have a chain or length of loops approximately 56 bags long.