How to make a bracelet from colored rubbery "Fish tail" on pencils with your own hands? Step-by-step instructions for braiding the bracelet with a photo

January 28, 2018 handmadebase

Today it has become very popular to weave variouskind of jewelry made of many thin colored rubber bands. And this unusual type of handicraft originated relatively recently, about 5-6 years ago in China. It was there, in an ordinary family, a caring dad, the father of two nice daughters, watching his children enthusiastically weaving something from pieces of colored threads for hours, decided to create a special device and material, thanks to which this type of creativity acquired a lightweight version. This is how the first Rainbow Loom kits were born, the existence of which is now known to every child from 4 to 18 years old. Looking at the intricate weaves of rubber bands, it seems that creating something like this is quite difficult, but this is not so at all, you just have to carefully study the weaving technique of this or that product and the work will boil. In this master class, I will tell you how to weave a very easy, quick and simple beautiful bracelet from rubber bands "Fishtail" on pencils. We can say that this model is designed for beginners, so you can easily cope with it, and later, in subsequent master classes, we will master more complex options with you.

Tools and materials

So, to weave a rubber band bracelet "Fishtail" we will need:

thin rubber bands of two contrasting colors (in our case it is orange and blue);
s-shaped plastic lock for fastening the bracelet.

And:

two identical pencils;
Stationery;
paper napkin.

Description of the stages of work

1.Let's start by making a device for weaving a bracelet. This can be done on a special machine or a special plastic slingshot, but if you haven't acquired such weaving tools yet - don't worry, they can be easily replaced with two fingers of your left hand, namely the index and middle fingers, or, as in our case, pencils. Only for this you need to connect two pencils together and tightly fasten them with a rubber band, as shown in the photo below.2.Then, we roll a small roll from a paper napkin, which we place between the pencils at the base of the eraser. This napkin helps us to move the pencils apart to the desired distance, thus creating a shape resembling a slingshot.3.The weaving device is ready, you can start working directly. We take our first elastic band, ours is orange, twist it once in the form of a "figure eight" and put it on both pencils.4. Next, take the second blue rubber band and this time, without twisting it, put it on top of both pencils.5. Observing the alternation of colors, which is extremely important in weaving this bracelet, we again take an orange rubber band and, just like the previous blue one, put it on both pencils.6.Now, holding the pencil device in your left hand, with two fingers of your right hand (thumb and index finger) pull the very bottom orange rubber band off the right pencil and remove it to the center of the two upper ones.7. In exactly the same way, remove the very bottom orange rubber band from the left pencil and place it in the center of the top two.8. Following the order of colors, take the next blue rubber band and, without twisting it, like all the previous ones, put it on both pencils of the slingshot.9. Then, one by one, using the principle we are already familiar with, we remove the very bottom blue eraser from both pencils to the center of the two upper ones.10. Put another orange rubber band on both pencils.11. And just like the two previous times, we drop the bottommost orange rubber band from the pencils onto the two upper ones. In this way, we begin to see the elements of the bracelet weaving.12. Put the blue rubber band back on and again remove the bottom one of the same color from the pencils.13.Observing the correct alternation of the colors of the rubber bands, weave a bracelet of the length we need according to the above-described pattern. It is worth noting that since the material from which the bracelet is made - rubber bands, has an elastic base, it is better to make the length of the decoration a little smaller than necessary, then it will sit well on the wrist and will not slip off.14. In order to finish weaving the bracelet, we do not put on another rubber band, but simply remove it from both pencils to the center of the upper and lower ones, as shown in the photo below. 15. Next, remove the remaining eraser from the right pencil and transfer it to the left one.16. After that, carefully remove both rubber bands from the pencil and secure them with one side of a special S-shaped plastic lock.17.With the other side of the plastic lock we hook the first two loops at the beginning of the bracelet, thanks to which it is connected into a ring. After that, the work can be considered finished, our bright and beautiful rubber band bracelet "Fishtail" is ready!

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