Sometimes you need folded paper strips of the same width, when weaving paper baskets e.g., making a magazine purse or perhaps when making accordion folds.
Making those strips can be a time-consuming and frustrating experience – but it can be very fast and easy as well: Once I read somewhere (unfortunately I don’t remember where exactly) that you only have to roll your paper sheet over a dowel and then flat the paper roll.
Easy peasy, isn’t it? ;-)
You need your sheet of paper and a dowel.
I used here one of my giant knitting needles.
Roll your sheet of paper on the dowel.
Pull the dowel out of the roll and flatten the paper roll.
This way you get paper strips which are of the same width over the whole length.
Once I made a bowl like these magazine bowls. I preferred the ends of my paper strips to be thinner then the center, so that everything is about the same width everywhere.
Roll your sheet of paper diagonally on the dowel.
The paper roll gets longer, but the ends are thinner than the center.
You can now overlap the strips and create a strong bowl.
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Paper woven basket
