How to weave rings from elastics: detailed description

If you do not know how to weave rings of rubber bands, read the article. It shows different ways - from the most elementary to complex. Choose your favorite ideas, master the technique of weaving, combine color combinations. So you can make original ornaments from popular rainbow loom bands for yourself and your girlfriends.

Materials and devices

To master how to weave rings of rubber bands, it is necessary to immediately prepare the necessary materials and repeat all the actions in succession in practice. So, you need the following:

• Multicolored rubber bands.
• Slingshot.
• Hook.
• Machine.
• Lock for those rings that will not be connected with the help of the loops.

It's easy to buy everything individually or order a whole set.

Technology of work

If you already know how to weave bracelets out of rubber bands, the ring will not be a problem. The principles of creating patterns are the same. The execution of the beginning of the product and the dropping of the loops are the same. Some variants are created completely analogous to bracelets, only of shorter length. On more complex schemes on the machine you can make a whole set of jewelry - a ring and a bracelet with the same decor in the form of flowers.

Interesting ideas

If you decide to learn how to weave rings of rubber bands, then you want to turn this interesting activity into your hobby. Having mastered the basic ways of weaving, you can develop your own products. Most often weave rings with flowers, simple or complex, monochrome or variegated. Also popular are decorations with spiders and woven just like bracelets.

Use your fingers

If you are immediately interested in the question of how to weave a ring of rubber bands without a machine, then you know: all the options that are woven on two bars of the machine or slingshot can be made on your fingers. Some schemes are easy to implement, others - it is possible, but inconvenient. It is worth saying that it is always better to use some kind of device to free your hands. If the work is done on a slingshot or a lathe, you can always postpone it for a period, and then finish it. With fingers is more difficult.

Homemade tool

If you study the instructions on how to weave a ring of rubber bands on a slingshot, while you do not have the last one, and it is very difficult to make such an ornament on your fingers, it is necessary to make a semblance of a slingshot with your own hands. For this it is enough to take two identical sticks, for example markers or pencils. Fasten them at an angle and set a normal eraser between them. You can fasten the parts, for example, with an adhesive tape.

How to weave the "Flower" ring of rubber bands (the simplest version)

You can complete a five-petalled flower in just two minutes. Use a slingshot or a machine with two bars, although it is quite possible to manage with your own fingers. The sequence of work is:

1. Put one elastic band of color number 1 on the right horn and twist it three times.
2. Put a pair of # 2 rubber bands on both horns without crossing and twisting.
3. Throw off the right horn crochet element of the first color to the middle between the bars.
4. Transfer the second color element (upper right double loop) to the left column.
5. Repeat the sequence of steps 1 to 4 the required number of times (by the number of petals), for example, five.
6. Put another rubbery of color No. 2 on both horns without crossing and move the elements made on the left column to the center between the horns using the hook.
7. Put on top of both horns another rubber band of the second color and discard the loops of the lower elastic band through the top of the slingshot.
8. From the right horn, swing the loop to the left, from the left - to the middle.
9. Remove the last loop from the left column and pass through the center of the resulting flower.

All is ready. Put the eyelet on your finger and wear a ring.

Ring with a bead on a slingshot

In this version, the base is made, and as a decor any bead is used. In the previous scheme it is assumed that one finger is put on the finger, and the decoration itself is played directly. The principle of operation used here is called the "fish tail". If you did bracelets like that, it would be easy to make a ring.

So, read how to weave a ring of rubber bands on a slingshot using a bead. The sequence of work is:

1. Put on the slingshot the first gum in the form of a figure eight.
2. Put on another pair of rubber bands, without crossing.
3. Throw off the top of the loop of the lower elastic band to the middle.
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 in sequence until the middle of the ring.
5. Pass one rubber band folded in half, through the prepared bead.
6. Put an elastic band with a bead on the horns of a slingshot and discard the lower hinges through the top to the middle.
7. Continue weaving by repeating step 4 to the desired length of the ring.
8. Throw off the top loops also to the middle.
9. The remaining upper right loop is placed on the left column.
10. Pass another rubber band through the hinges on the left column and secure with a dead loop.
11. Pull the first loop of the ring and pull the last through it. Fasten the remaining tail of the last rubber band, sequentially tying it with a hook through the ring elements. Another option is to use a clip to connect the woven stripe to the ring.

All is ready. It's time to try it on.

By the same technology, you can make several other rings, for example without a bead or with several decorative elements. In the last variant, the main thing is to correctly calculate the number of loops between the beads, so that they are located at an equal distance.

A shawl on a machine with a flower ring

According to the technology described below, you can create different types of jewelry. To do this, it is sufficient to change the colors of the rubber bands that form the petals. If you use white rubber, you will get a daisy, if blue or blue - forget-me-not.

So, read how to weave a ring of rubber bands on the machine. Work as follows:

1. Prepare the machine. You need six pins, arranged in two rows of three bars. Take the rubber bands of three shades: two for the petals, for example blue and blue, and brown for the middle and the base. Put on one brown rubber band around the perimeter of all six posts.
2. Remove from the corner column the edge of the rubber band to the middle and wrap a loop around the column. Do the same with the rest of the corner posts, and then with the rest. As a result, inside the six bars should be a contour in the form of a rectangle.
3. Lower the contour lower.
4. Put on two blue gums on the diagonals of the rectangle and one stretch on two central bars.
5. The second row, place the white gum on the same pattern.
6. The third row put on the blue in the same way.
7. Take another brown rubber band and put six bars around the perimeter.
8. On each of the six bars, raise the bottom brown rubber band upward with a crochet, putting it on a pole.
9. From one middle column, move the brown loop to the second central one.
10. Also transfer all the other brown loops from the other bars to this one. First remove from distant in relation to the one you are putting on, then from the neighboring ones. All brown gum is on one pin.
11. Take another brown gum and gently crochet through all the other gums of the same color. As a result, you will get two loops, one - on the left side of the ring of all brown rubber bands, the second - with the right. Now you can remove the flower from the posts without removing it from the hook. Begin work with angled petals, at least remove from the middle.

The flower is ready. And now use this element instead of the bead when weaving the bracelet according to the instructions from the previous section.

How to weave a rubber band "Spider"

Prepare rubber bands of black, gray or bicolour, for example, black with transparent. The sequence of work will be as follows:

1. First, make workpieces for the legs. Take a pair of rubber bands and place them on each other. Twist them, tightening the knot. As a result, you will get a detail that looks like a bow.
2. Repeat the previous step with two more pairs of elastics.
3. We pass to the weaving on a slingshot or mini-machine with two posts. Take one rubber band and place it between the tops of the slingshot. This rubber band will be used later.
4. On the right column, put on the second elastic band and twist it four times.
5. Put on another rubber band, but now on both tops, twist it twice.
6. Take the hook and toss the elastic, twisted four times, through the top of the column to the middle between the two.
7. Take the first pair of previously prepared legs and put the workpiece loops on the tops of the slingshot. Lower the parts downward, fixing them under the fillets of the slingshot, so that it would be more convenient to work further.
8. So do with the second and third pair of legs.
9. Put on the next elastic band on both tops of the slingshot, twist it twice.
10. Toss the first upper elastic band on the right column through the top to the middle.
11. Span the very first, left in the rubber band, through the left side through the top to the middle.
12. Tilt the left part from the top pair of legs through the top to the middle.
13. Remove the upper loop from the right horn to the left horn, and the one that was on the left, move to the right to the center between the horns.
14. Cut neatly with scissors all the eyelets of the legs.
15. Remove the last loop left on the left horn on the hook and tighten the knot more tightly.

All is ready. Wear a loop on your finger and admire the wonderful spider.

So, you learned how to weave rings of rubber bands. This is not difficult at all. Choose first simple methods, then, when you master them, go to work with the machine and weaving more original things.