Friday, March 29, 2024
Crafts
» » Flowers with other materials

Solawood Flower Basket

Solawood Flower Basket
Contributed by- Jennifer Augustine , Kochi , India
Total views : 99449    5 . 4 . 2022

A naturally obtained material, Solawood is Tapioca peel, treated for craft purpose.

Here Mrs. Jennifer Augustine is making a flower basket, a very attractive piece of art.

 

 Solawood Flower Basket
Materials

Materials Used

  1. Sola wood - about 20 rolls

  2. Thermocol - 1/2 meter

  3. Hard Board -2 1/meters

  4. Cloth - Cotton/Satin/Felt/ Velvet

  5. Glue ( Fevicol)

  6. Flower Making thread

  7. Scissors, carbon, tracing, design, cutter

First choose the design you want to work.  

  1. Trace the design onto the thermocol using tracing paper and carbon paper.

  2. Draw the outline of the basket on the thermocol using a pen or pencil.

  3. With a thermocol cutter cut the thermocol through the outline carefully. 

  4. Once the cutting is over, remove all the chipped out portions.

  5. Now your basket on thermocol is ready. Keep it aside.

  6. Take your hard board. Cover it with the black or any dark colour cloth. Cover it properly and stretch out or bring the four sides to the back side of the hardboard and paste them to the board using glue( Fevicol). 

  7. Your hard board should be of appropriate size, so that your thermocol design can be properly stuck to the board.

  8.  Now paste the cut thermocol basket on the hardboard. Then take the sola wood. Press it slightly without pressure so as to make it smooth. Please do not press it hard, so that it becomes too flimsy. Now you have to do the 'weaving' design on the thermocol basket.

To make the Basket : Cut the sola wood into strips of even length and width say, approximately 2cm x 2cms. Each piece can be stuck on the design of the basket  lengthwise and breadth wise.

Another method of making a basket :  To weave the design of the basket :- Cut the sola wood into strips of even length. Paste the strips at the top edge and side of the basket and leave it loose and weave alternately. After  weaving, paste the edges to the thermocol and chop excess sola wood pieces. Sides of the basket should be covered neatly with the sola wood.   Now the basket is ready.

Cutting the petals

 To make the Roses:- Cut the sola wood in the shape of petals. Cut the petals of 3 different sizes approximately 200 -300  in nos.

Tying the petals

Take a small petal. Roll it and tie it at the bottom with the flower making thread. Arrange 5-7 petals around it and again tie with the thread. Now the flower is ready.

Make around 50-60 flowers of different sizes. Since the solawood is fragile, care should be taken while tying with the thread.

To make Leaf:- Carefully cut and shape 20-30 leaves with the sola wood.  

Fixing the Flowers

First arrange the flowers and leaves on the top portion , just above the basket.  Once you are satisfied with the arrangement, paste them onto the positions using glue (fevicol).

Arrangement and pasting should be done in such a manner that it should look as if the flowers are arranged from within the basket.

 

 

Post a Comment



12 Comments


Rekha, Trivandrum
December 30, 2019
Reply
Very nice. Can u give your contact address
 
Aisha perween , Asansol
December 5, 2015
Reply
Too niceee good job wish you a good luck...
 
Kiran, Kalpetta
October 30, 2015
Reply
Really great thing.I will try this.thank u.
 
Uma R.K. Nair, Calicut
February 9, 2015
Reply
It is really simple n easy way to do. I am so much interested in craft work.
 
R.Krishika, Coimbatore
June 3, 2014
Reply
This is very useful for my craft projects.
 
SRIUSHA, Bangalore
December 8, 2012
Reply
THANK YOU. THIS IS VERY USEFULL FOR ME. THIS FLOWERS ARE VERY NICE.
 
sreerenjini, kottayam,kerala
February 22, 2012
Reply
Super idea,I will try
 
Anjaly Pandey, Lucknow
February 5, 2012
Reply
Its so nice, i will try this. Thanks
 
sandhya dinesh, kerala, calicut.
August 6, 2010
Reply
very niceeeeeeee...........thankuuuuuuu...,expecting more classes.
 
maheswari , kilpauk,chennai
July 14, 2010
Reply
your flower making is very nice.i want sola wood material.my contact number 9443544918
 
Leena Patil, Thane
July 6, 2010
Reply
Hi, Hru.... Thanks for giving the details how tomake this flower. It`s reaily helpful for me. I wan`t to do something like this please help me.Is their any classes you in thane thank you,......
 
Mohana Priya, Chennai
April 21, 2010
Reply
Its very nice