Do-it-yourself bast shoes made of satin ribbons. How to learn to weave real bast shoes with your own hands at home

Once in Rus', most of the population walked in bast shoes. It is worth noting that bast shoes are quite comfortable, and most importantly, light. Such shoes, as they said, the foot rejoices. Every house knew how to weave bast shoes, but this does not mean at all that such a business does not have its own secrets, nuances and skill is not needed. Weaving bast shoes was considered an easy job that men did in their spare time. It is not for nothing that they still say about a heavily drunk person that he “does not knit a bast”, i.e. unable to do basic things. But, “tying the bast”, the man provided the whole family with shoes. Now weaving bast shoes is an unjustifiably forgotten type of needlework. It is almost impossible to find someone who wears exclusively woven shoes, like the old days. But paying tribute to memory, let's look at how to weave decorative bast shoes on our own: the master class will be from birch bark, bast and newspaper tubes.

How to weave bast shoes from newspaper tubes with a master class

You will do absolutely all the work with your own hands. The whole weaving process is described step by step. To begin with, we need only 10 tubes, each of which is made from a quarter of a newspaper sheet, cut in length. Lay out four tubes and interlace with each other with a cross. Add 5, and then braid the first 4.

Let's rotate the workpiece by about 20 degrees to indicate the axis of symmetry for further weaving. We will weave 2 tubes from the center, as in the figure. Let's get a figurine that looks like a heart, this will be the back of a bast shoe. In the same way, we will braid the 2 remaining upper sticks, at the same time giving the hands the shape of a backdrop.

And we continue weaving in the same way up to the toe, which will be about 6 centimeters. To round the toe, bend all the tubes. Take the leftmost one and weave it through all the others, bringing it out from the far right. We perform similar actions with the extreme right.

We cut off all the remaining tubes with scissors, leaving about 2 centimeters, we select the longest from the scraps. If all are short, cut off from the new one and weave it. This will be the last 3rd row of the toe.

We bend all the tubes, except for the two side ones, on both sides in a checkerboard pattern. One inward, and the other outward and glued with glue. To speed up gluing, we fix the sticks with clothespins, bend the extreme sticks under the toe and glue them. Here are our bast shoes and ready, it remains only to dry them, paint and decorate.

To get started with birch bark, take 2 pieces of aluminum wire or thin twigs. Fold them with a cross and on this basis weave a rug of three birch bark ribbons.

The numbers of the ribbons in the photo show that to make the tip of the sock, you should weave ribbons 1 and 2, and then 3 and 2. Next, you need to twist all the intersecting ribbons.

Make two more corners. Decide which side of the bast shoes will be the bottom and top, in order to determine whether you are weaving the bast shoes on the left or right foot.

To get the right bast shoe, make a right corner using ribbons 1 and 2 on the 2-section side. With the same tapes, make a corner on the opposite side with 3 sections. Corners should be symmetrical. Now weave the intersecting stripes.

With the help of tapes 1 and 2, make an edge by bending them. To get a strong edge, weave these tapes under several sections. If the first ribbon has become short, lengthen it and fix the location. Weave additional ribbons and form the edge of the bast shoes. Next, bend the inner tape so that it becomes outer and moves towards the future heel, and bend the first tape, making it inner. Using tapes 1 and 2 form a corner, as in the photo below, so the second tape will also form an edge.

On the opposite side, weave another additional tape and continue to weave the edge. Finish the second corner of the heel and weave the product to the finished look.

Weaving bast shoes from birch bark is not an activity for beginners. But if you successfully wove your own bast shoes, then you can proudly call yourself a real master and artisan. We wish you good luck in this difficult but interesting field.

Video on the topic of the article

You will solve all the problems that have arisen in the process of work with the help of a special selection of videos on the topic. In it you will learn how to weave bast shoes from bast and birch bark step by step. A little interesting facts from history and some weaving techniques. Enjoy watching!

Master class "Miracle Bast Shoes" made of cardboard and satin ribbons

Audience: The developed master class on the discipline "Technology" is intended for 5-7th grades of a secondary educational school, for parents, for teachers.

Purpose of the master class: making a souvenir, decorating the interior of a room.

Target: mastering the practical skills of working with satin ribbons.

Teaching tasks:

Teach practical skills of weaving;

To form interest in decorative and applied art;

To form an artistic taste and focus on the quality of products.

Educational tasks:

Contribute to the education of creative activity;

Build a sense of self-control.

Development tasks:

To promote the development of logical thinking in students;

Contribute to the formation of a comprehensively developed personality.

Not learning (not knowing how) and you can’t weave bast shoes.

(proverb)

This type of needlework

Start learning

I advise everyone to start

And don't be bored.

Materials:

For work you will need:

cardboard (you can buy a set for children's creativity, or any box from a set of chocolates can do);

silk fabric in the color of the ribbons;

Satin ribbons 12 mm wide 3.5 m for bast shoes measuring 15 x 8.5 cm; (the larger the bast shoes, the more ribbons, and the width of the ribbon depends on the size of the bast shoes, you can also use ribbons different widths)

glue DRAKON;

needle, scissors;

threads in the color of the ribbon.

Progress:

We cut out two, preferably symmetrical ovals and a toe of a bast shoe made of cardboard. We make a pattern by eye, you can practice on a regular piece of paper to start.

We cut ribbons, a size slightly larger than the length of the bast shoes and an amount not exceeding the width.

We glue it on the reverse side so that there are no gaps, but if it already turned out, it means that in this place there will be a toe of a bast shoe.

Now, similarly, we cut the ribbons across the bast shoes, weave them with previously glued

We glue from the inside.

Like the sole, we glue the sock with ribbons.

Now we need to prepare the bottom of the bast shoes.

Cut out the detail of the bast shoes from the silk fabric - the sole (add allowances for gluing)

Traditional crafts are gaining well-deserved popularity. As a rule, these are colorful products filled with positive energy. In the manufacture of traditional dolls, costumes and handicrafts, such an element as bast shoes is often used. Needlewomen resort to various tricks to get the most realistic products, including trying to weave bast shoes for a doll. A master class describing the step-by-step steps for making traditional shoes from improvised materials will help with this.

Since ancient times, shoes have been made from durable materials popular in the area. For example, weaving bast shoes from bast (soft bark) in Rus' has become a traditional way. If we talk about souvenirs, then you can make shoes for crafts more easy ways. For example, as a material, you can choose ordinary gas tubes t or dense wrapping paper, rag tape or twine.

Masters had their own subtleties of weaving traditional shoes, which were passed down from generation to generation. Shoe making was a special craft, only a few people owned it. Lapotnikov was valued and respected.

Making do-it-yourself bast shoes for a child as part of a brownie, Emelya, or as part of a traditional composition is quite simple. Below are master classes that will allow even novice craftswomen to cope with the task.

Making rag bast shoes

You can make bast shoes for a costume, for example, Emelya, from rag strips. This technique is suitable for needlewomen who know how to crochet. To weave such bast shoes you will need:

• Things that have served their purpose (old T-shirts, dresses), preferably plain: for example, yellow or beige.
• Big hook.
• Scissors.
• Needle.
• Threads to match the fabric.

A new piece of fabric 1x1.5 meters can also be used as a material. Use better material, which does not “muffle” on sections. It can be nylon, knitwear or cotton fabric. So, a master class on making:

For the manufacture of such bast shoes, an experienced craftswoman will need no more than an hour of free time. The result is a unique product created by one's own hands.

Artificial bast

Since bast weaving is a complex process and requires special skills, it is more expedient to weave bast shoes (the scheme, by the way, is similar) from newspaper tubes. Paper may well become a decorative substitute for birch bark.

This option is ideal for making decorative bast shoes as an element for a traditional composition. So, a step-by-step manufacturing master class:

Such bast shoes can be used as an independent product or as part of a composition or shoes for a traditional doll. The product is covered with paint. It is better to use on an acrylic basis, after which they are varnished.

Bast shoes are not only a part of traditional compositions, but also beautiful amulet for home or car.

Fantasy and skillful hands will allow you to create a unique product that will charge its owners with the positive energy and love of the master.

Master class for parents.

“Although the bast shoe is good, in itself it is worth a penny. That's why it's not for nothing that there are a pair of bast shoes"

Purpose: Making rag bast shoes for Russian folk costume pupils of theatrical and folklore studio.

Target: creation of Russian traditional environment for joint activities of children and parents.

Tasks:

1. Contribute to the formation of the interest of children and their parents in the world of traditional Russian culture.

2. Enrichment of the subject-developing environment for theatrical activities.

To make bast shoes, you need to prepare:

▪ Fabric - jersey yellow color, about 1 meter long, 1.5 meters wide;

▪ Hook;

▪ Scissors;

▪ Thread with a needle.

Progress

Russian bast shoes are one of the most important symbols of traditional Russian life. Bast shoes - low shoes, common in Rus', woven from wood bast (linden, birch bark). The bast shoe was tied to the leg with laces twisted from bast. For a pair of bast shoes, it was necessary to peel off as many as three small sticks.

Mikhail Burchak's poem "Lapti":

Look at a pair of bast bast shoes,

They are worth a look, by the way.

In our age, among intricate things,

There are no shoes more ingenious and simpler.

You do not look down on the bast shoes,

Interrupting an intelligent conversation with annoyance.

Such bast shoes for many centuries,

Worn by our grandparents.

When your great-grandfather was a young man,

He loved his great-grandmother dearly.

Then he went on a date to her,

Not feeling bast shoes underneath.

In bast shoes, elegant and quiet,

She met her fiance

And he seemed to her in bast shoes

More beautiful than all earthly kings.

Do not miss happiness in a hurry.

Here's a good sign for you:

Happiness comes in bast sandals,

Leaves in lacquered boots.

You are not in a hurry, hand over the bast shoes to the museum,

Let at least a couple be in your house.

Be like a bast shoe, everyone is modest,

And invisible in its simplicity.

Although the bast shoe is good, in itself it is worth a penny.

That is why it is not for nothing that there are a pair of bast shoes.

And don't forget everyone:

Two bast shoes, but one way.

It is not so easy to buy bast shoes, not everyone can weave bast shoes from bast, and it is better to make them yourself, it is much more profitable and practical.

You can weave bast shoes from knitted fabric because it is soft and pliable.

Use scissors to cut strips of fabric about 1 centimeter.

Sew strips weave into one "thread".

To make a bast shoe of size 27, you need to crochet a chain of 13-15 air loops. Then the working thread is crocheted sequentially into each next loop of the chain and dragged working thread into the previous loop until you get a trace of the length you need.

We knit the resulting top of the toe of the bast shoes in a circle and fix the fabric. We knit the laces with an ordinary chain, we fix them on the “heel”.

One bast shoe is ready, we boldly proceed to the second, but we say “We don’t sip tea with bast shoes,” which means we are scientists, we don’t need to explain.

Bast shoes are beautiful, and most importantly unique, because they will be made by hand.

sewing lovers folk dolls in the Slavic style or domovyat as a talisman for the home, they often wonder how to weave bast shoes for a doll. If you are also interested in this topic, I suggest viewing two photos of the master class that will help you easily cope with the work.

How to weave bast shoes from straws or newspaper tubes

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Weave open bast shoes without a back from newspaper tubes

You just need to prepare for work:

- newspaper;
- a pencil of medium thickness;
- stationery knife;
- PVA glue;
- knitting needle;
- stain and white acrylic paint;
- linen thread for decoration.

1. Unfold the newspaper and arrange the sheets of newspaper across the long side, fold in half and cut the fold line with a knife.
2. Take a pencil and start winding a sheet of newspaper around it from the top right corner. Do not overtighten, it is necessary that the lower end of the tube is slightly narrower than the upper. At the end of the twist, secure the sheet with glue so that it does not unwind.
3. Now insert the three tubes one into the other, fixing them with glue. You will get a fairly long working tube. You will need 5 of these.

4. Arrange these long tubes as shown in the photo and start weaving according to them. I tried to show how the weaving of the right and left bast shoes begins. It is the beginning of laying the tubes that determines what the bast shoes will be like.
5. Continue weaving according to the photos. When weaving is completed, fill in the excess ends of the tubes with a knitting needle, threading them along the entire length of the sole, thereby weaving the second layer.
6. I painted bast shoes with OAK water stain, then gently applied white with a dry brush. acrylic paint thin layer and messy strokes. This creates the effect of wear and antiquity.

7. After painting, it is necessary to apply a primer - a mixture of PVA glue with water (3: 2), after the bast shoes dry, they will become strong. You can cover them if you wish. acrylic varnish, but if you intend to use them as a decor, then this is not necessary.
8. With the help of a linen thread and a needle, you can wrap the edges of the bast shoes, so they will become warmer and dearer.

These are the bast shoes weaved as a birthday gift for good luck and happiness by craftswoman Kanzi
For bast shoes, the author used newspaper tubes, painted with water stain "Oak", jute rope and white construction acrylic paint

This is how the shoes looked without aging with acrylic paint

The process of weaving bast shoes, like any object, begins with a bookmark (a house is laid, a garden is laid ...). To lay a five-piece bast shoe, you need to take the five ends of the bast and lay them out with the bast * side up on the desktop or just on your knee so that, mutually intertwining in the middle of the length at an angle of 90 °, they form the basis of the future bast shoe (Fig. 5). We unfold the workpiece so that the ends are located 3 x 2 away from us and 2 x 3 towards ourselves. (For the second bast shoe, we put the workpiece in a mirror image with respect to the workpiece for the first bast shoe.) Next, the right of the three upper ends (in the figure it is numbered 3 ) bend over and intertwine with two adjacent ends. Now we have got the location of the ends from ourselves 2 x 2, and towards ourselves 3 x 3 (Fig. 6). To form the corners of the heel, we bend the outermost of the three ends on the left and right alternately inward at a right angle and weave them: the right one to the left (Fig. 7), the left one to the right. As a result, a heel is formed with one knuckle* in the middle (Fig. 8). We bend the ends right and left from ourselves (the right ones - away from ourselves, the left ones - towards ourselves), we twist them with the rest (Fig. 9). So the heel is completely formed with five chickens along the border. All ends are now located five to the left and right to themselves (Fig. 10). To align the border, we put the heel on the block and alternately tighten the ends.

We continue laying the bast shoes, bending the ends either to the left or to the right and weaving them with the rest: left - to the right, right - to the left. In order for the bast shoes to differ into right and left, for the first bast shoes we bend the right ends to the outer, and the left - to the inner side of the sole (Fig. 11), for the second - vice versa. The location of the chickens on the head also depends on this.

After five heel chickens, we count them along the hem of the sole. Usually in the sole there are seven or eight kurts. In the process of laying the bast shoes, we constantly tighten the ends, compacting the wattle fence, and check the length of the sole along the block. We also make sure that the number of ends on the left and on the right is always five. The denser you lay the bast shoes, the more durable and tricky * it will turn out. This means it will last longer. And he will look more noble.

When the sole reaches the desired length (on the block this corresponds to the corners of the head), we begin to form the head, paying attention to the fact that there are five ends on both sides. The laying of the firebrand is somewhat similar to the laying of the heel. We bend the third end on the right side so that we get an acute angle, and weave through two adjacent ones in left side. We also weave the other two ends on the right side. It turned out the right corner of the firebrand (Fig. 12). Three of its ends look inside the head, two - out. Similarly, we make the left corner of the head: we bend the middle of the five left ends at an acute angle, weave it through two adjacent ends to the right side, then we do the same with the other two left ends. As a result, three ends of the left corner look inside the head, two ends look out. We twist together three middle ends. We again got five ends on the left and right (Fig. 13).

We put the bast shoes completely on the block, tighten the ends, compacting the head. We do this with the help of a stump.

Next, we make the border of the head. We put the bast shoe on our knees with the head towards us. The left of the five right ends, bending away from us, weave to the right through all four ends and pass the fence under the chicken (Fig. 14). We also bend the next end away from ourselves, weave it to the right now through three ends and pass the wattle fence under the next chicken. Weave the third end through the two remaining ends and also pass under the chicken. After that, on the right side, two ends go along the sole, and three look in the other direction (Fig. 15).

Similarly, we make the left side of the border of the firebrand. But here we bend the extreme right end onto ourselves and weave it to the left through all four ends. We do the same with the next two ends. Now, on the left side, the ends are located, as on the right. We pull them up. Bast shoes laid down (Fig. 16). We start weaving it.

At the two ends running along the sole, we leave alone for a while. In the future, they will go to education and to tighten the eyes.

Three right and three left ends, passed under the soles of the kurts, look in different directions. We weave them along the sole with the second trace (Fig. 17). Then the lower of the three ends directed towards the firebrand, we bring it to the center of the firebrand and make a chicken. To do this, we bend the end back, tuck it, forming a loop, and pass it under the cell of the same track along which it walked (Fig. 18). We let the end that changed direction to weave the sole (Fig. 19).

When the ends reach the hem of the sole, we bring each under our chicken, bend it, as if repeating the hem, and skip it in the other direction. It does not matter whether the bast side of the bast is directed outward or inward. When weaving the third track, it is important that the bast side is always outward, as it is stronger than the subcortical one. Here we make turns at the level of the second cells from the border, without bending the bast when changing direction. When the ends end, we put on the basts remaining during the workpiece, and weave further. The direction of the ends and the weaving cells themselves suggest where to go. As a result of weaving, the foot is compacted, it becomes more elastic. Bast shoes are considered solid if they are woven in three tracks.

At the end of the weaving of the sole, we draw out eyelets on both sides, for which we alternately twist one of the two ends located along the sole (the one that is stronger and better) into a bundle, rotating inward, towards the block (this is a prerequisite for both the right and left eyes). So that the twist is cylindrical and does not fold during the wearing of the bast shoes, we insert a narrow strip of bast into it. Partially twisting the left ear, wrap it around the second end, tighten this end, bring the head to the center of the second chicken, then weave a little along the sole (due to the two ends that formed the chickens, the head is strengthened at the corners, and this is enough for strength, and here the sole requires weaving no less than two traces).

Approximately in the middle of the distance from the heel to the head, we pierce a hole in the border with a stump and pass the ear end through it from the inside (please pay attention to this, because when we tie a knot on the heel itself, this end must be threaded not from the inside, but from the outside). They threaded it, twisted it in a loop, pulled it up, and it turned out an eyelet. We twist the ear end again and lead it to the corner of the heel. We pull it up, thread it from the outside through the hole made by the stump in the heel border, and tie it in a knot. The left eye turned out (Fig. 20). We do the same on the right.

After that, we twist both ends of the eyes in one direction (away from ourselves), we twist them together two or three times, and a heel, or ruffle, is formed (Fig. 21). We put the ends from the heel with the bast side out onto the weaving of the sole.

We turn all the ends braided along the third track at the edge of the sole, pass through two or three cells and cut off.

Bast shoes are ready. We remove it from the block, prying it with a kochetyg in the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe spot. In the same way, we weave the second bast shoe, remembering that the chickens on his little head should look the other way. wove? Got a couple. And here in Kermisi they said: there are shoes. It remains to tie the frills to the bast shoes, wrap the legs in footcloths in the summer, onuchs in the winter, twist the frills crosswise up to the knee - and good luck, lashers! Of course, you won’t walk along the street, but your loved ones in new year's eve you can have fun. As long as you dress appropriately. And even sing a ditty: “Oh, my bast shoes, cool little heads. Whoever weaved them, picked them, to the forehead. ”

GLOSSARY FOR THE ARTICLE Lyko is a young bast, a fibrous, fragile underbark from any tree (bast under the bark, pulp under it, blon under it, young wood).

Komel - the lower part of a tree, plant, hair, feather adjacent to the root; thick end of the log.

Lutokha, lutoshka - sticky, from which the bark is removed, the bast is torn off (proverb: “A goal is like a lutoshka, a barefoot one is like a goose”; a riddle: “I will throw from a flea, will it grow from a lutoshka?” Answer: hemp). Lutoshki are also called skinny, dry legs.

Lopas - hayloft, hay dryer.

The deck is a large trough of rough finish.

Kochedyk is a flat curved bast awl. In different localities it was called differently: kochadyk, kodochig, cat, kostyg, kochetyg.

Bast - the inner part of the bark of young deciduous trees, as well as a piece, a strip of such bark, bast (used for making ropes, baskets, boxes, weaving matting, etc.). The bast is well removed in warm, damp, windy weather.

Zagnetka, zagnet, zagnivka - a recess in the hearth of a Russian stove, usually in its left part, where hot coals are raked.

Onucha - a piece of dense cloth, wrapped around the foot when wearing bast shoes or boots.

Obory - ropes woven in a special way, ties at bast shoes.

Obornik - a kind of loop formed by the ends of the eyes on the heel of the bast shoes, into which the ruffs were threaded.

Mochenets - flax or hemp soaked for processing. Raw hemp fiber after one lobe, crumpled and peeled, was used for twisting ropes, for picking bast shoes.

Hen - a decorative element in the form of a corner on the head of a bast shoe.

The bast side is the surface of the bast, which adjoins directly to the tree. Smooth and more durable in contrast to the subcrustal, rough.

Kurtsy - transverse basts, bent along the edges of the wattle fence. There can be up to ten chickens in the wattle fence.

Stubborn - tightly, soundly woven bast shoes.