To weave a sun-shaped box you will need:
• magazine tubes – 79 pieces;
• cardboard;
• PVA glue;
• scissors;
• double sided tape;
• acrylic paints of white and yellow colors;
• varnish – impregnation for wood, colorless.
Twelve magazine tubes are divided into 4 bundles of 3 pieces each. The bundles are folded in a checkerboard pattern, and weaving begins with a working tube in a circle. The bottom is woven from six rows, spreading the tubes from the bundles in different directions.
Smoothly transitioning to weaving the walls of the box, the tubes bend and turn into stands. 7 rows of dense weaving are performed, then proceed to making a “rope”.
Two more branches are added to the working branches of the tubes. Weave a rope with each pair of working branches, going around two posts and going behind the third. When finishing the row, the working ends are hidden in the resulting volumetric weaving. The racks are wrapped behind each other in the opposite direction to the weaving.
The finished bowl of the box is thickly coated with PVA glue and after drying, all protruding ends are cut off.
To weave the lid of the box, a circle with a diameter of 115 mm is cut out of cardboard. Tubes - racks - are laid out at equal distances from each other. The surface of the circle is covered with double-sided tape and laid out in dense rows of magazine tubes. The racks are interlaced in 4 rows and closed by gluing the working ends of the branches.
The rays of the sun are made by bending the posts and pulling them onto the inside of the lid. The racks that appear on the reverse side are intertwined in one row and the weaving is closed by bending the same racks behind each other. The entire structure is coated with glue and allowed to dry.
The finished product is painted with white acrylic paint, and when it dries, individual elements of the box are applied with yellow paint. The last step is to coat the resulting sun box with colorless varnish.
