SECTION 9 -WEAVING PAPER

Weaving strips of paper ( quilling strips) in different ways can enhance the background or certain features like baskets for example, in a tasteful way.

It is best to use a cork board ( picture 1) with a piece graph paper on it to do the weaving and then attach to your work, whether that be behind an open aperture (see picture 2) or as a background that covers the whole card or framing area of your project.

The advantage is that you can line your strips up accurately with the graph paper lines as it is essential to be straight and accurate with your placement of strips as it can make or break your project.  If you leave a space in your weaving pattern that will leave an empty row in the finished pattern, you DEFINITELY need graph paper underneath as you will get out of line easily otherwise.

Picture 1 Example of designing board and paper weaving in process, pins holding the paper securely.

• I find that a roller type adhesive is easiest for securing the ends when the weaving pattern is complete as it is a drier method, rather than a messy liquid.
• You can make different textures with your paper strips for weaving by crimping them first with a paper crimper too! Crimped strips also look nice when made into a bow and attached to project.
• Experiment with differing widths of paper, different colours, different patterns of weaving.

 Picture 2   Click to see up close   

• This card has a heart shaped aperture in the front and I filled that open space from behind by weaving ( just 1 x 1 in this case) metallic pearl paper in cream, secure the ends and closed the card front down with more adhesive.
• After that I attached a small bead into the intersection of each place that the strips crossed over, with PVA glue and used the quilling needle tool to help hold the bead and place it accurately.

Now go onto SECTION 10 - FOLDED ROSES

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