Elena, I an very new to this craft. I have watched your videos over and over. They are very helpful. Thanks to you, I have not experienced many of the problems mentioned in other videos. Your English translations are great. I can now go back and watch your first videos and understand what you are saying. Thank you sooooo much for taking the time to make all of them.
Machine direction and cross direction. When the paper is being made on the paper machine, the pulped fibres are shaken to make them spread out evenly. This causes them to line up somewhat in the direction of travel, i.e. machine direction, and the resulting sheets tear and cut and fold rather more easily along this axis. When cutting, folding or tearing in the other direction, across the grain, so to speak, one is working against the lay of the fibres, known as cross direction, and so these actions, especially tearing, are messier and more difficult. The tear or fold wants to travel in the machine direction and will wander that way and not be straight. It's been a long time since I was near a paper machine and I rather miss it! You do beautiful work and have inspired me to try basket weaving with newspaper. Thank you for sharing your expertise and experience. Warmest best wishes, Katherine from Kent, England, UK
Dear Elena Thank you so much for the time and effort you put into making your videos. I learnt to weave from you, and this month I won a national craft competition with a chair I wove from newspaper. I hope to use my knowledge to train others and help create job opportunities for people in South Africa. You can find a picture of the chair on the Khanyi Designs Facebook page. Spasiba Bolshoi!
I came across you videos and am please to say I want very much to give this a try. I have made a few baskets of reeds but found them costly. Using newspaper that I recycle will be no cost to learn a new method of making a basket. Thanks for sharing Greetings from USA
Elena, I would like to know what size needle, in millimetres, you use to roll the newspaper and the dimensions of the newspaper. I tried using 2.75mm and it seems the tubes are a little thick. On your website you mention using a No1, 2 or 4. Is your No 1, a 2.25mm?
I'm fine. But there is a war in my Ukraine. This is terrible. Russia is killing civilians. Tonight, the Russian military hit a high-rise building with a rocket while people were sleeping. There are many victims, among them women and children. There were no military facilities there. Only civilians. Russia is a terrorist country.
any fellow canadian weaver who can direct me to a source of newspaper roll in Quebec? I used to have an arrangement with a few stores, but with everything on the internet, it's getting hard to get real newspaper :O
I just started rolling today and already you have been of great help! I'm very much looking forward to stretching the limits of paper weaving lol
I wish you success in your work.
Elena, I an very new to this craft. I have watched your videos over and over. They are very helpful. Thanks to you, I have not experienced many of the problems mentioned in other videos. Your English translations are great. I can now go back and watch your first videos and understand what you are saying. Thank you sooooo much for taking the time to make all of them.
Machine direction and cross direction. When the paper is being made on the paper machine, the pulped fibres are shaken to make them spread out evenly. This causes them to line up somewhat in the direction of travel, i.e. machine direction, and the resulting sheets tear and cut and fold rather more easily along this axis. When cutting, folding or tearing in the other direction, across the grain, so to speak, one is working against the lay of the fibres, known as cross direction, and so these actions, especially tearing, are messier and more difficult. The tear or fold wants to travel in the machine direction and will wander that way and not be straight.
It's been a long time since I was near a paper machine and I rather miss it!
You do beautiful work and have inspired me to try basket weaving with newspaper. Thank you for sharing your expertise and experience.
Warmest best wishes,
Katherine from Kent, England, UK
Many thanks for the advice. I think it will be useful for the weave lovers. Hello from Ukraine.
Dear Elena
Thank you so much for the time and effort you put into making your videos. I learnt to weave from you, and this month I won a national craft competition with a chair I wove from newspaper. I hope to use my knowledge to train others and help create job opportunities for people in South Africa. You can find a picture of the chair on the Khanyi Designs Facebook page. Spasiba Bolshoi!
I came across you videos and am please to say I want very much to give this a try. I have made a few baskets of reeds but found them costly. Using newspaper that I recycle will be no cost to learn a new method of making a basket.
Thanks for sharing Greetings from USA
Very good informative video....I am a BIG fan of your creative work!! Thank you for sharing your art with us...
Many thanks for sharing your wisdom and experience. 😊 🙏🏻
thank you very much for helping me a lot in this craft..you are simply amazing,very creative and your baskets and bags are beautiful..love them all..
That made a lot of sense. I am just learning and you make it look so easy. Thank you.
Thanks for your great tutorial! I want to try using this method to create a Christmas star ornament.
Thanks to you. Please mention the thickness of the needle, you used to make the paper tubes.
Elena, I would like to know what size needle, in millimetres, you use to roll the newspaper and the dimensions of the newspaper. I tried using 2.75mm and it seems the tubes are a little thick. On your website you mention using a No1, 2 or 4. Is your No 1, a 2.25mm?
+Charleen Galway-Bennett I use the needle diameter of 1.5-1.8 mm.
Your video's are amazing, thank you!
very nice thanks for sharing it helped me.
greetings from holland
Where i will get that stick
Thank you, very informative!
Very nice!
Great Success!
superb videos
Hi ma'am... How are you
I'm fine. But there is a war in my Ukraine. This is terrible. Russia is killing civilians. Tonight, the Russian military hit a high-rise building with a rocket while people were sleeping. There are many victims, among them women and children. There were no military facilities there. Only civilians. Russia is a terrorist country.
any fellow canadian weaver who can direct me to a source of newspaper roll in Quebec? I used to have an arrangement with a few stores, but with everything on the internet, it's getting hard to get real newspaper :O
You web site I can not read as I need English. God bless
thank you
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Wow impressive!
hi mam I can't roll like u , one side thin nd other side different it's coming
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hi mam I can't roll like u , one side thin nd other side different it's coming
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