How to make lanterns handmade crafts

Practice 1:

1, the bamboo in the steam chamber heated for half an hour, and then removed, placed in a cool place to dry, but must not be overly dry, and can not be placed in the strong light exposure.

2, ? Use bamboo planer to remove the rough epidermis of the cow's surface.

3.? Cut the bamboo strips to the desired length; this depends on the size of the lantern.

4. Weave the bamboo strips in a crisscross pattern to complete the frame.

5. In the center of the frame, tie several rings of bamboo around the wall of the lantern.

6. Glued lanterns, first laminated cotton gauze, and then glued two layers of paper for lanterns with a single light. Framing cotton gauze cloth to be the first diluted paste, even flat brush on the surface of the skeleton, and then cut the gauze lightly attached to the lamp frame, and then use a brush dipped in paste to brush flat, here need to pay attention to, brush flat paste brush must be a clean brush, otherwise, the lamp surface will be a dirty mess. At the same time, the laminating paper must be glued without seams before the real laminating is complete.

7, will be placed in a cool ventilated place to dry.

8,? Color painting. Painting to individual required pattern painting, such as figures, eight immortals, birds and flowers, ladies and so on.

9,? After painting, depending on the situation to decide whether to write text. When the text, pattern completely dry, and then a layer of tung oil, and then wait for the tung oil shade dry, the lantern is complete.

Practice two:

1, will be threaded wire gabions, installed in the bamboo head pedestal.

2, a gabion mounted on a grid of grooves, and then finally tie the bamboo head with wire to become a bamboo stand.

3. Holding the bamboo frame against the ground, slowly push it down until it becomes a cylinder.

4. Press and fold the bamboo gimmicks with your hands to adjust the shape of the lantern, the curvature and the distance between the gimmicks.

5. Tie a cotton thread around the top of the lantern to secure the bamboo gabions.

6: Lay white gauze on the gabions and fix them with paste.

7, wait for the gauze to dry, and then apply the parsley glue.

8, after drying in the shade, the tube-shaped umbrella lamp is molded.

9, then tracing and coloring. Generally speaking, the characters are vermillion red, and the pictures are auspicious paintings such as the Eight Immortals, the Three Stars of Fortune and Longevity.

10, and finally install the base on the bamboo head, trimming, it is complete.