The ball is a very regular, streamlined shape. Due to the absence of any angles, he is considered a "good" figure, devoid of all aggression. Rounded shapes are ideal for decorating an apartment, a private house. This decor is done personally - the balls from the threads in the interior look great, with their help it is quite possible to quickly place the necessary bright accents, add lightness to the room, as if filling it with air.
Preparation for work
Spider web - budget decor, made from colored threads with your own hands. There is nothing difficult here - even the kid can handle it, his parents will only help him a little. With the help of ropes, laces, threads, and other improvised means, literally in ten minutes real masterpieces are made. Ready-made webs are decorated with smaller balls, paper flowers, ribbons, various figures. When there are a lot of them, whole garlands are created, as well as plot compositions.
Required materials, tools
From the tools, materials will need:
- threads - knitting or sewing;
- balloons - necessarily round;
- glue for wallpaper or pva;
- cup or container for glue;
- some water;
- scissors;
- needle;
- tweezers.
The threads are taken in any color or white - the finished ball is then dyed from a can. Suitable floss, wool or regular sewing. It is better not to use office glue - it badly “holds” the threads.
The better the fibers are twisted, the stronger the construction will be. Also for added strength, sugar syrup is added to the glue.
Basic technique
Step by step description of the manufacture of the filament ball:
- inflate the ball, but just enough to make it round;
- glue is mixed with water to get a uniform consistency;
- threads dipped in glue, but not all at once;
- as an option, a thread is threaded into a needle, a jar of glue is pierced, the thread is pulled through it, soaked with glue;
- then the thread is randomly wound on a ball;
- when wound enough, the thread is cut, the tip is firmly fixed with glue;
- the ball is suspended or put on a tray - in 10-20 hours, depending on the thickness of the threads, it will completely dry;
- to speed up the process, the structure can be dried using a hair dryer - this will take no more than an hour;
- when the ball is already dry, it has hardened, it is peeled off from the frame with its hands, pierced with a needle, if it is too dry to the threads, it is separated with tweezers.
When you plan to make a lot of thread balls, the air does not have to be pierced - you can just blow the air out of it, gently pull it out without damaging it.
If you first spread the inflated ball with any fat cream, the threads will well lag behind the base, you will not have to tear it off with your hands.
Decoration, paint balls
As usual, decorate the ball-gossamer:
- painted from a cylinder or manually;
- pasted over with rhinestones, sparkles;
- embroider with beads, bugles, sequins;
- decorate with pompoms, tassels;
- made out of knitted items.
Acrylic from a can will suit for uniform coloring - you can use several colors at the same time. Manually also paint with acrylic paint and brushes - it is a little more difficult, but you can draw stripes, colorful play. Brilliant elements, beautiful plant seeds (beans, lupins), paper butterflies, dry flowers, twigs are glued to the surface with the help of PVA glue. Beads, beads, beautiful buttons, textile ribbons are sewn with thin threads.
Room Design Ideas
Colored or white, simple or luxurious balls-gossamer will decorate the space of any room - nursery, bedroom, living room, office, kitchen, office.
Ways of placement:
- hung under the chandelier;
- decorated frames for photos, paintings;
- make the ceiling;
- laid out in vases on the dresser, table;
- the large ones are located right on the floor;
- small hang on garden trees, indoor plants.
Evening gardens, city parks adorn balls of thread and twine.
Coloring balls spider should be combined with the interior styling. Many large balls in an overly cramped room should not be placed.
New Year's decor
Christmas toys are made mainly from white, silver threads. The perimeter of the room or window is decorated with a garland with spherical lamps - if the bulbs are colored, they are made white and vice versa. Christmas balls are made in the same color and size, if you plan to combine them with other toys or multi-colored, with a variety of decor - when the tree is decorated exclusively with them.
From spider webs, they create a whole Christmas tree-gossamer, then they are glued on a transparent cone, inside which a bright light bulb is mounted. If you take beautiful dry branches, put them in a vase, fix it on a base made of snags, stones with glue, polyurethane foam, and then cover the structure with white paint, you will have a winter tree. Its branches are also decorated with colored balls with ribbons, sparkles, and garlands.
Openwork snowman will be the central figure of the New Year's design. In its design, a combination of different materials is used - a bucket on the head is made of foil, a broom is made of a pencil, eyes are made of buttons, and the nose is made of paper. You can independently tie him a scarf or cap.
For decorating a festive children's room, other toys are also made - a bear, a cheburashka, a goldfish, even a whole ensemble of “smeshariki”.
Candlesticks and lampshades for lamps
The one-piece spherical ceiling is made in such a way that a bulb with a base crawls into the top opening - it is cut out round or an incision is made crosswise. It is important that the light bulb itself does not touch the thread frame, and the design is attached to the plastic holder.
When the ball is made large enough, another original lampshade is made of it, carefully cutting the ball in half. The hem is decorated with pompoms, tassels, fringe. The base of any ceiling can be made knitted or with lace napkins pasted over the top of such a chandelier.
In the same way, the lamp on the stand, floor lamp, sconce is made out. The main thing - to comply with fire safety.
Suspended compositions for birthday and not only
Constructions of various colors, sizes, are suspended on ropes to walls, ceilings. With the help of nails or double-sided tape, they are attached along the perimeter of the arches. When there are a lot of balls and they are small, then the number depicting the age of the birthday person or a memorable date is laid out of them. To do this, the figures are cut out of cardboard or foam plastic, to which "gossamers" are glued to the adhesive tape. If desired, only the contours of an important date — weddings, anniversaries, and others — are carried out from the balls with burning lights.
When not conceived otherwise, the balls are made of different sizes, different densities. If there are a lot of them, it is not necessary to decorate each additionally - just a couple of ribbons or sparkles on two or three largest ones are enough.
Balls for ikebana, dried flowers
Spider web balls will perfectly complement the original bouquet of dried flowers or dried flowers. If you take bright fresh flowers on long legs, push them through the balls so that only the heads stick out, put small glasses or cups into which to pour a little water, you get unique decorations. Fold all the balls in one large container with a small amount of water - and some kind of table alpine slide will come out. In another embodiment, the "webs" are twisted from thin colored wire, and the flowers are taken large, on thick legs. Balls cover them only at the bottom.
Dry stems are inserted into a vase, and colored balls are attached to their tops - they do not need water at all. A transparent vase is filled with colored pebbles, pebbles.
Decoration of the holiday table
Variants of scenery for the table during the holidays:
- luminous tree - a branch-snag is taken, the most razlapisty. It is inserted into the pot or attached to the foam. After the design pasted color tape, newsprint, wrapped with twine. On top of the branches let the LED garland with balloons-shades;
- Easter eggs - "gossamer" is not necessarily to do strictly round. With a certain skill, it is easy to create an egg shape. The items are made of small size, stacked in wicker baskets decorated with moss or just in a vase;
- a wreath - it is folded from spruce, pine branches, wire, decorated with "gold" from a balloon, colored balls, ribbons, flowers and cones. Hang on the wall above the holiday table;
- table vase for sweets - made by cutting the whole ball into two parts, or when pasting it with thread by only half;
- plot composition - a hole about one third of its size is cut in the finished design. Depending on the format of the event, they put inside a little Christmas tree with a winter home, figures of the newlyweds with a wedding carriage, a cradle with a puppet baby, toy dinosaurs with a blossoming cactus, etc.
Conclusion
Decorating the interior of the apartment, your house with decorative balls for any holiday is easy and simple. Decorating them with yarn, paper, paints, making beads, garlands, plafonds from "cobwebs", decorating with hand knitting, you can surprise guests every time with something new, at the lowest cost. In furniture stores, decor often sell "factory" balls, gossamer lampshades of them, but the cost of such gizmos is quite large.
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