Floral fiber such as sisal can be seen in every flower shop today. More than one photo or video master class is devoted to making sisal crafts. Sisal is made from the leaves of the Mexican agave; it is a herbaceous shrub from the subtropics. Sisal fibers are coarse and stiff, but very durable. This fiber is most often used to make ropes, ropes, washcloths, and brushes. That is, production is far from artistic creativity.

But it was the masters of decorative and applied arts who drew attention to the fact that sisal is appropriate in needlework, as well as in the most different types decor. And now video instructions tell you how to build such beauty.

Before making a beautiful souvenir tree, you will need a MK (master class) on making sisal itself. If you couldn't find it anywhere, you can make it yourself. Where you should start is by visiting a hardware store. Buy a brush there for whitewashing houses, it’s cheap, and you can pull out a lot of fibers from it.

Choose brushes with thin, durable bristles; the bristles must be natural.

The next point is how to make such sisal colored:

• Use dyes in tablets or powder;
• Fill any vessel hot water, add one tablespoon of vinegar there, and then the dye itself;
• Soak the sisal divided into strands in the resulting solution for two and a half hours;
• When the material is dry, you can lay it out to dry on regular album sheets or napkins (clean, of course);
• For getting interesting colors you can mix shades;
• Are used and natural dyes– in the photo you can appreciate how beautifully sisal is painted with your own hands using ordinary potassium permanganate, beet juice, coffee grounds, etc.

And if you need a snow-white blank, you can soak the sisal in “Whiteness”, increasing the soaking time to six hours.

Very important: do not dry sisal on newspaper or magazine sheets, as it is possible that letters will be imprinted on the material.

There is also such a thing as wicker (linen) sisal. How to make it yourself? Another small master class. Take an oilcloth, arrange the prepared fibers on it in any order, and thoroughly cover the top with wallpaper glue. Cover it all with another layer of film and press it down with a flat board.

After a day, such a woven fabric can be used - for example, to make topiary from sisal.

Sisal topiary (video master class)

Sisal balls for topiary: how to make

And one more simple master class for the future great diy. It involves making sisal balls with your own hands.

How to make sisal balls:

• Divide the sisal into small pieces;
• Slowly roll each piece in your palms.

You decide what size you need to make the topiary ball. Rolling circles is very simple; the tighter, the more securely they will hold, the better the crown will turn out.

How to roll sisal balls (MK video)

Sisal topiary: master class

Well, now you can start making topiary from sisal. If possible, film the process on video or photo, so that later you can make a video or photo master class to teach other novice masters.

So, you will need:

• Sisal of a certain color (for example, purple). You can take several colors if you are sure that you can combine it correctly.
• Pot.
• Gypsum.
• Foam ball or any other ball for the base.
• Water.
• A twig from a tree. Of course, the trunk may be different, but the twig will cope with this task perfectly.
• Scissors.
• Glue gun.
• Wire cutters.
• Decorative elements of your choice.

Topiary made of sisal (photo master class step by step)

When the product is almost ready, the final touch remains in the form of a “highlight” in the decoration

Topiary Christmas tree made of sisal: New Year's master class

The most current video and photo instructions are devoted to the production of sisal topiaries, the model of which is a herringbone. This New Year's souvenir will be an excellent gift for friends and family. This New Year's souvenir is very simple to make, but how will such a Christmas tree help out? holidays– a thing made with your own hands is always a more valuable present when there is such a New Year’s occasion.

How is such a Christmas tree made? The main crown of such a tree will not be a ball, but a cone. Well, if it’s clear where to get the ball, then how to make a cone? The easiest option is to roll it out of cardboard. It’s better to secure the cone with tape, not regular tape, but painter’s tape - the future Christmas tree will be stronger.

Also suitable as a blank is a plastic base for a children's pyramid or a foam blank.

• The bottom of the cone must be covered with a circle;
• Take a piece of wire and bend one end;
• Place the wire through the top of the cone and secure it with hot glue;
• Make a hole in the circle with scissors, thread the circle onto a pencil;
• Finally, glue the cone itself (the future Christmas tree) on top of the pencil, and glue the circle on the bottom;
• Tear off a piece of sisal and use the same hot glue to secure it to the end of the wire;
• Wrap the sisal tightly around the wire, and then begin winding movements around the cone, while securing each turn with hot glue;
• The sisal should be wound around the entire cone in this manner;
• And the pencil-barrel can be wrapped in twine or covered with silver narrow tape.

Decorate the pot too, but this should be done in such a way that the color of the pot’s decor matches the Christmas tree. For example, the Christmas tree is blue and the New Year's pot is also blue. If you want multicolor, it should also be in harmony. For example, the Christmas tree is green and the pot is golden. In a word, the Christmas tree and the New Year's pot should have the same colors.

Well, such a Christmas tree will be decorated the way you imagine. Look at photos or video examples of how other craftsmen decorate a similar topiary made of colored sisal. The Christmas tree can be decorated with a mini garland and New Year's beads. There can even be a festive ball hanging on it, and more than one - only very small ones.

Decorate the pot with your own hands - with golden braid, satin ribbons, snow-covered fruits. Inside the pot, on top you can put a small New Year's photo, so that it becomes clear who the gift is from.

Master Class. DIY interior decoration for the New Year

Christmas tree- DIY topiary

Galina Anatolyevna Tsybanova, teacher at Tver Trade and Economic College
Purpose: I like to decorate my classroom for the New Year.
But in the computer class every square centimeter is occupied, so a small Christmas tree-topiary will come in handy. There is no shame in giving such a tree as a gift; you can even put it on festive table.
Target:
- develop creative abilities
- cultivate imagination and imagination

Hello, New Year's holiday,
Christmas tree and winter holiday!
All my friends today
We'll invite you to the Christmas tree.

Sparkle the Christmas tree with lights,
Invite us to the holiday!
Fulfill all your wishes
Make all your dreams come true!

For work we will need:

1. Materials for the Christmas tree itself:
Sheet thick paper A4 format (I have drawing paper)
Aluminum wire 40 cm long
Foam plastic 8x8 cm
Lining fabric 10x10 cm
Green thick threads for the Christmas tree itself and brown ones for the trunk
PVA glue
Glue "Moment"
Sequins of two types
Christmas tree beads 50 cm
Bottom braid 30 cm
Ribbon for bows 30 cm

2. Materials for the pot:
A plastic cup
Construction gypsum
Burlap 20x8 cm
Lining fabric 8x8 cm
Sintepon 8x8 cm
Braid for decoration 20 cm (2 pcs)
Candy wrappers (for “gifts”)

3. Tools:
Scissors
Ruler
Pen (or pencil)
Pliers

Christmas tree making process:

1. Roll up a “bundle” from a sheet of paper and adjust its width at the bottom.
Apply PVA glue to the edges of the paper and press tightly.
2. Attach a ruler to the top of the cone and measure it at the shortest part
(this is the maximum possible height of the Christmas tree). Then, holding one end of the ruler
and gradually turning the cone, make marks of the same length along the entire lower part.

3. Use scissors to cut off excess paper. The base of the tree is ready.

4. Place the cone on a piece of foam plastic, draw a circle and carefully cut out the bottom.

5. Prepare the “trunk”: wrap a piece of wire on one side with brown thread
approximately 1/4 of its length. (I didn’t do it right away, so I felt inconvenienced)
6. Use the upper part of the “trunk” to pierce the center of the foam circle and insert it
into a cone so that it protrudes 7-10 cm above the top and bend it with pliers.

7. Coat the bottom on the sides with PVA glue and insert into bottom part paper cone.
You can additionally stuff it inside the cone crumpled paper(newspaper) so that the cone itself
was not deformed during subsequent manipulations.
8. Make a hole in a piece of lining fabric 10x10 cm, put it on the wire
from below and carefully glue it with PVA glue to the bottom, covering all the foam.
For insurance, you can wrap the edges of the fabric along the bottom of the cone with several turns of thread.
I wrapped the entire cone with a thin thread, smeared with PVA glue for better subsequent
adhesion to the main thread.

9. Attach a green thread at the base of the cone, coat the cone
about 2 cm with PVA glue and wrap tightly with thread so that there are no gaps.
Then coat and wrap the next 2 cm, etc.
I did it this way to make it more convenient to hold the product and not get my hands dirty.

So it's ready...

10. It’s time for the potty. Prepare the required container:
if the pot is small, the tree may fall over, and if it is too large, it will be unsightly.
I cut off a yogurt cup.

The bottom was covered with lining fabric 8x8 cm, glued to PVA.
The sides were covered with burlap. I folded the excess burlap inside the pot.

11. Then you need to prepare a solution from gypsum, diluting it with water to a dough-like state.
Here I cheated a little: I added a handful of river sand to the finished solution - and I saved gypsum, and the solution turned out heavier, which means the stability of the future product is better.

The pot needs to be filled with gypsum mortar almost to the top.
12. It’s time to insert the base of the tree trunk and the center of the pot and compact the solution around it.
You can use the blunt end of a pencil after wrapping it in cellophane.
The solution will “settle” and there will be room for “snow”. Now we need to leave our product for a couple of hours or until the next day so that the solution hardens properly.
I had to put the tree “in the corner” to save it.
I got so carried away here that I forgot about the camera.
13. Decorate the pot. The joint of the burlap can be sealed with tape.
Place padding polyester around the trunk.
Glue the tape on top of the pot and around the base with Moment glue.
Glue on bows and sequins if desired.
Under the tree - “gifts” made from candy wrappers (there are also candy wrappers inside).

14. The final stage: decorating the Christmas tree itself. First glue the tape
along the bottom of the cone to further secure the threads and cover possible flaws.
Then Christmas tree beads, individual beads, sequins, bows - and all with Moment glue
(PVA takes a long time to dry).
Here is our beauty with her friends made of “grass” and “swan’s down”

And two more babies are born :)

And she herself has already taken pride of place in the computer class and reminds my students that soon New Year and it's time to take tests

P.S. Thank you for your attention.
This is my first master class. There is a lot of work, even more ideas.
I already see my mistakes and insufficient photographs, I promise to improve

The Christmas tree is an integral attribute of the New Year; on this holiday, you want to please with a gift made by yourself. A great idea would be to make a topiary Christmas tree with your own hands.

Coffee Christmas tree

There can be an unlimited number of options for making topiary in the form of a herringbone, as far as human imagination can allow. The most versatile topiary is coffee, but what if you make it in the shape of a Christmas tree? This master class will present step-by-step photos of the manufacturing process.

First you need to make a cone out of cardboard or thick paper. You can use paper, newspaper, fabric or cotton wool as a base, the main thing is to push it all inside. How to make a cone: a sheet of paper needs to be rolled up in the form of a bag, or you can first use a compass to mark the diagram. The workpiece is glued together with an overlap using a hot-melt gun, regular glue, adhesive tape (you can use double-sided tape) or fastened with a stapler.

The cone can be placed on a paper coffee cup. The joints are glued with PVA or other suitable glue.

The cone is wrapped with twine, it is glued with double-sided tape or with Moment.

A bow made of golden ribbon is tied to the top of the tree. Instead of a bow, there can be any other decor.

The bottom edge of the cone is covered with coffee beans. Everyone decides how many rows to make, but you can lay out three or four rows and then leave the twine. The first layer dries in about half an hour and only after drying can the next layer be glued.

Now the second layer of grains is glued.

The more chaotic the better. This will make the topiary look more voluminous. If desired, you can paint the grains with acrylic.

Now you can start decorating the cone. Bows are made from, for example, silver ribbon and glued with hot glue; grains are glued into the center of the bows. The decor can be arranged arbitrarily.

The coffee tree is ready.

Another variation would be a Christmas tree with a trunk made from a tube or branch and planted in a pot. This is done like a standard topiary, it differs only in design.

Other decor options for coffee trees are presented below:

Product made from sisal

An interesting option would be to make a Christmas tree from sisal. What is sisal? This material is made from the leaves of a shrub - the Mexican agave. Its fibers are very tough, coarse and very durable. No special technology is required to produce the fiber. Its main purpose is to create decorative crafts, various brushes, sponges, all kinds of ropes and ropes.

If you want to create a New Year's topiary from sisal, then you need to stock up on fir needles and the corresponding decorative elements: tinsel, broken Christmas decorations, confetti, etc. A sisal Christmas tree is made similarly to any other tree of happiness. The only difference is the shape of the crown. A sisal Christmas tree will be an excellent gift for loved ones or colleagues.

The crown of the tree is made of dense material rolled into a cone. Tinsel, rain, bows, and miniature toys are glued onto it or reinforced with decorative needles. Also, a sisal Christmas tree can be an excellent lamp if you attach a garland to the form.

If it’s difficult to choose your own design option, then photographs of the finished work can help:

If the top of the tree is slightly bent, it will resemble a tree from a magical forest and will surely appeal to both children and adults. It can be given as a gift or used as interior decoration in your own apartment. A spectacular sisal Christmas tree will certainly create a festive atmosphere. The decoration of the stand can be varied: pine cones, fir needles, tinsel, ribbons and beads.

New Year's tree topiaries look especially beautiful if they are decorated with various small decorative elements. An option could be this: beads or beads are strung on a thread or wire and wrapped around the product in a spiral. The same can be easily done using thin satin, brocade or other decorative ribbon, lace or braid.

You can glue artificial snow onto a Christmas tree or pot. It can be store-bought or made from cotton wool. You can also cut out small snowflakes and stick them on the tree. The gaps between the ribbons can be filled with small balls or bows. Not only Christmas trees decorated with small details will look beautiful, but also trees made from sisal balls. The only difference is that the surface of the topiary will be uneven. You can place larger balls at the base, and smaller ones at the crown. Simple and tasteful.

Video on the topic of the article

Sisal provides great opportunities for creativity. In the master classes presented below, you can see various designs and methods of creating a New Year's tree:

New Year's topiary. Master class with step by step photos.

Author: Tatyana Eruslanovna Tyagina, teacher kindergarten No. 7 Kiselevsky urban district, Kemerovo region, Russia.
The master class is designed for older children school age, teachers, parents and people involved in creativity.
Purpose: This master class is intended for making a tree of happiness - a topiary, which can serve not only as an interior decoration, but also become an excellent New Year's gift.
Target: making New Year's topiary from improvised materials.
Tasks: familiarize yourself with the technology of making topiary, develop creative imagination and fantasy; instill aesthetic taste, develop hand motor skills, perseverance; cultivate accuracy when performing work.

Initially, topiary was a garden with decorative trimmed plants and sculptures created from artistically trimmed trees. The art of topiary has centuries-old history. Yes, back in Ancient Egypt and Persia valued the ability to give bushes and trees geometric shapes. And the most famous example of a topiary garden is the Hanging Gardens of Babylon in Babylon - one of the seven wonders of the world. And now topiary (or European tree) is the name for small original trees, for the production of which natural and artificial materials. Topiary is decorative in nature, and what it will be made of depends only on the author’s imagination. And the size of topiary can be from 10-15 centimeters to half a meter.
Materials and tools for making New Year's topiary: not a large pot, a branch or stick 40 cm, newspaper, thread with a needle, plaster, artificial white fur, Christmas tree beads, artificial pine branch (brush) sold by the meter, wire cutters, scissors, glue gun, Moment glue, decorative green and red, red bow, decorative silver branch, pine cones, white gouache or corrector, various New Year's mini toys.
Progress:
1. We make the base for the topiary: we form a ball with a diameter of 10 cm from newspaper and wrap it with threads for strength.

2. Make a hole in the ball, insert a branch and secure with hot glue. We wrap the branch with green braid.

3. Fill the pot with diluted plaster and immerse the base of the topiary in it. You don't have to wait long for the plaster to harden.

4. Decorate the trunk of the topiary with Christmas tree beads using glue.

5. Let's start making the topiary crown. Using wire cutters, cut the artificial pine brush into 17 cm pieces. My topiary took 40 of these pieces. It all depends on what diameter your ball is.

6. Bend the pine pieces in half.

7. You get these fluffy lumps.

8. Using hot glue, attach the pine fluffy lumps tightly to each other on the ball. You need to start from the bottom of the ball.

9. It turns out like this crown.

10. Now let’s decorate the crown of the topiary. For this you will need: cones, corrector or white gouache, various New Year's mini-souvenirs, a decorative silver branch.

11. Cover the tips of the cones with a corrector (you can use white gouache).

12. Glue the painted cones between the pine branches.

13. Glue New Year’s mini toys along the crown.

14. Glue decorative silver branches between the pine branches. Cover the tips of the pine needles with corrector or white gouache.

15. Let's start decorating the pot. For this you will need: white artificial fur, red braid, large silver beads, a couple of New Year's mini toys (gifts), pine brush needles.

16. From white fur we cut out a “fur coat” for the pot. The pattern depends on the shape of your pot.

17. Sew the darts together and use hot glue to secure the “coat” to the pot. We tie the “fur coat” with red braid and decorate it with a bow.

18. Place pine needles in a pot, then beads and gifts.

19. Lovely New Year's gift ready for friends and family.

We show you step by step how to make small sisal balls with your own hands. Sisal balls are used to create topiary or decorative Christmas trees, as well as for others creative works. We offer the simplest and quick way manufacturing. Take it!

Sisal is a natural fiber that is extracted from the fresh leaves of the Agave sisal plant. The material is widely used for almost any crafts - thanks to its unique properties, variety of colors and application possibilities. All information about sisal (article in progress).

How to make sisal balls step by step

Stage 1. Roll into balls. We select a bundle of fibers from a common sheet of sisal and intensively roll it with our palms, giving the material a spherical shape. If the size of the ball is smaller than required, add more fibers and roll it out. We form the required amount of material.

For topiary, sisal balls of one color are used, but you can also combine fibers of 2, 3 or even 4 colors. Experiment!

Stage 2. Working with glue. Rolled sisal balls can crumble, fall apart and are difficult to use. To strengthen the balls, you need to glue them: smear one palm with PVA glue, roll the sisal balls again. After drying, the product acquires a frame and does not fall apart.

PVA glue is environmentally friendly, allergic reactions or harm to the skin are excluded. After finishing the work, wash your hands with soap; the glue washes off easily.

Stage 3. Trimming excess fibers. Sisal for topiary or decoration is a fairly stiff and unyielding fiber. That is why, even after gluing, individual threads stick out shapelessly. To fix this, after the balls have dried, it is necessary to inspect each one and cut off the protruding fibers, as well as re-roll those products that have flattened or lost their shape.

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