These super fun paper weaving are a great paper craft for kids of all ages. They can be made with two pieces of paper, a pencil and scissors.
Paper weaving doesn't have to just be for kids. Weaving with paper is a great way to weave patterns and experiment with new materials.
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Katie Loves …how Danish textile artists Helle Gråbæk and Maria Kirk Mikkelsen have played with paper weaving to make these beautiful squares of color and...
UPDATE: The photographer is Michelangelo di Battista and the paper weaving is by Jennifer Berning: Hat tip: FFFFOUND!
Paper weaving doesn't have to just be for kids. Weaving with paper is a great way to weave patterns and experiment with new materials.
Taking a nod from Craft the Rainbow, we're showing a spin on our paper weavings, which are perfect for stay at home projects!
I am SO excited to share this resource that I've been working on with you guys! After seeing some absolutely gorgeous paper weavings on Instagram, I was inspired to create one of my own! So I googled basket weaving designs, then used that to guide my paper weaving. That's when it struck me! What if there were designs or templates created specifically for paper weaving that made it easier for younger students to do too?! Note: I recommend this for students who have already done paper weaving before. I would not use this to introduce the technique for the first time. Yesssssss!! To use these templates, you just print them on regular letter size paper (I recommend using Astrobrights cardstock), and then weave in the weft strips so they cover the X's and go under the blank squares. Easy peasy! Check out this video showing how to use the templates for paper weaving: I arranged my materials into a binder that would work PERFECTLY for an art center or even just for early finishers who need something fun and engaging to do while others finish up. The binder is arranged into a few sections: 1. Instructions 2. Design catalog (showing all the designs in the binder) 3. Weaving templates (with cover pages) 4. Student designs 5. Instructions for creating designs and then making those into templates (to be included in the binder for some art room fame) Check out this video showing how I set up my binder: My favorite part of the binder is the section for student designs. What better way to motivate students to do their best work, then with the promise of art room fame! :) If you're interested in getting a copy of this package, you can find it in my shopify store or on Teachers Pay Teachers!
Weaving Paper Hearts: These woven hearts are made from various prints of card stock and have a lovely pattern and texture. If you don't have a selection of card stock available, pages from magazines are a great alternative. They work wonderfully as-is on a lovely …
Using paper to create your own weaving material is a great way to be creative and sustainable. Follow this fun paper yarn tutorial!
"Crossword Puzzle Orange Sienna Weaving" ©2017, an original mixed media abstract paper weaving. Collaged fragments of almost finished crossword puzzles woven together with strips of burnt orange and white papers. SIZE: 13 x 14 inches square ( 35.56 x 33.02 cm.) Surface sprayed with a UV protectant. Interested in a different size or colors? Just click on Request A Custom Order on my Home Page-- I would love to make that for you! More Paper Weavings here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/lauraprillabstract?section_id=14374808&ref=shopsection_leftnav_5 More art: http://www.etsy.com/shop/lauraprill Thank you for visiting! Colors on the monitor may vary slightly from the original. © Laura Prill As the artist and copyright holder, I retain all rights to reproduce the image for display purposes.
I recently completed a 30 day online class run by Helen Hiebert called Weaving Through Winter. The class had a very open structure, Helen did a 30 minute video introduction each week on a theme and workshop participants could take the concept and run with it. We posted pictures of what we made and offered comments and suggestions to each other. It was a wonderful daily practice and meditation. If you want to see all 30 of my pieces check out my Instagram posts at @gina_pisello. I will show you my favorites below and tell you a bit about what inspired them. Enjoy! This is one of the last pieces I made in class. I was inspired by weaver Kay Sekimachi and light streaming onto the red paper before sunset. This weaving went through several stages before becoming the piece at the bottom. I tried folding an origami bowl with it, but the shape and size of the weave was wrong for this particular origami piece. I would like to try again with a different weaving pattern. I wove abaca paper strips together then folded it into a Tomoko Fuse spiral. I love the way this turned out. A simple weave around a silhouette. I didn't know what to weave on this day but found inspiration in torn paper torsos I made years ago that sit framed on my desk. This one was hard to weave, but I really like the results. This is a Danish heart basket, commonly made at Christmas time. I used folded paper and wove a love letter with a Japanese paper bag for this simple weaving. There are many more designs for this if you search Pinterest. One week of the course was about weaving shapes. I wanted to do a simple circle and the tension of the weaving caused this to curve nicely off the page. I experimented with hexagonal weaving trying to work out the formula for doing so. Turns out quilters have a way of doing this called triaxial weaving. I liked building this out from the center, but want to try doing it the "right" way sometime soon. The completed hexagon weaving. Another hexagon weaving. I remembered that Claire Van Vliet and Hedi Kyle invented ways to weave books together in the excellent book Woven and Interlocking Book Structures. This one is my favorite with its crossing shapes and locking structures. I created the pages with eco-dyed paper. This was an early weaving from the class. I wanted to explore strips that were angled. I like the optical illusion of it. This is one of the later weavings. I cut warp strips around the leaves on the eco-dyed paper. Then I cut weft strips one at a time to bend around the leaves. I wanted to enhance this central image.
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This student chose to do a self portrait. It's no secret to my students that I love weaving projects. There's something about the methodical over-and-under process that I find so relaxing and satisfying. Here's a paper weaving project I did with a Grade 10/11 class. I've also done it with Grades 7 and 8. They essentially did a drawing of the same image twice (they traced the first image onto the same sized paper) and then painted them slightly different colours. They could either go for opposite colours to create a high contrast checkerboard effect, or go for similar colours to create a more subtle effect. So here's a drawing of a falling over champagne glass- drawn exactly the same twice. We used a tracing table- a window would work as well. Then paint them both- we used acrylics and/or watercolours. This student below chose a subtle colour change for her Egyptian piece. Once both paintings are dry, you need to fold one in half and draw a line about one inch from the open end of the folded paper. This is the limit of cutting. Students could measure their cutting lines with a ruler or free hand cut them. Most chose to measure. The thinner the strips, the longer the weaving will take to finish. These strips are known as the 'warp'strips. The strips don't need to be straight but all my students made theirs straight. For the second sheet of paper, cut the strips all the way through. I suggest to students to measure and draw all the lines out first on the back, with a ruler, then number them, in case they fall down, or get mixed up. You won't use the first couple of strips on both the top and bottom. So here's the weaving at the beginning stages. The blue painting below has been folded vertically and cut into the 'warp' strips. Then the pink/purple painting is being cut across- the 'weft' strips (1 cm) and those strips are being woven into the blue painting. So here's the back of the painting that's going to be cut into the 'weft' strips. Number them on the back just in case. You need to weave them in order so that the painted image lines up more or less. It won't be perfectly the same and that's ok. Students stress over this part and try to get it all perfectly lined up and it just doesn't work. That's not the point of this project. So I found I had to continually emphasize that the drawings do not have to line up perfectly!!! You can number the strips on the back to keep them in order. Especially useful if a gust of wind enters the classroom and blows the strips onto the floor... yes, it's happened. Over, under, over, under and so on. Then start weaving- over, under, over, under- this takes time and patience. When you have a few strips in and it looks good, glue down the edges with dots of white glue to keep it all secure. Students will find they don't need to use all the strips- the may take out some half-way through that don't line up and that's fine. Here's a link to a very basic paper weaving lesson that may make more sense than mine did ;) Here are some of the early finishers: Ta da! this student left a large, wide border which I quite like. this student was going for a brocade look.