Thursday, June 20, 2013

2/3 Combo Class: Recycle Weaving

Continuing with the idea of recycling we started a project on weaving using recycled materials.  We began by painting discarded pieces of cardboard to use as the "warp".  After the paint was dry I used a paper cutter to make 1" wide vertical strips (the slits stopped 1" from the top of the cardboard).

Painted cardboard

Weaving materials
The students were given a variety of "weft" materials to choose from such as cardboard, foil, plastic garbage bags, raffia, twine, yarn, wallpaper scraps, painted paper scraps etc.....






Before starting the final project the students practiced the over under technique on a smaller piece of card stock. 







Examples of Finished Weavings




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