Handmade Jute Artwork

To me Jute is a synonym for Fibre. I am so excited to work on jute projects and since the time I have read this 'Fibre Arts' contest, it has been rolling in my mind. Thinking and thinking of something to do with jute. Finally this project clicked in the last week, but I wasn't able to drive down to my local Dollar Tree for shopping as I had seen some very creative jute options out there. Before that I decide to visit Home Depot as well and did not find much options when compared to Dollar Tree and picked up this simple and cool jute cord. As I am too excited to wait to work this project, I will show you all the steps needed to make this marvelous artwork. Be assured that this is a very budget friendly project yet brings in rich looks. Hope you like it as much as I do.

1. Jute bundle

2. Glue

3. Canvas board (12" X 16")

4. Pencil

5. 6 big white beads

6. A pair of scissors

In this step, I decided to have a beautiful pair of leaves and some flowers on my design. I then drew this image freehand on canvas with the help of a pencil. It is important to note not to press the pencil too hard or hard on the canvas frame as this could easily rupture the canvas and spoil it. Refer for this hand drawn in pic 3 - 5.

In this step I carefully added glue along the outline of the leaf. I made sure to keep the jute cord straight and not to let it twist and turn. This slowly and carefully I worked on placing the jute cord along the ups and downs of the leaf. Adding glue and the cord, then glue and then the cord few inches at a time. This did not seem very attractive in the beginning, but as I kept working on it, the leaf started getting into a great shape. I was very pleased to watch the results as seen in pic 5. At times, I had to add more glue especially at places which are not a straight line.

I then decided to complete the second leaf as well. This was done in a very similar way just as the first leaf. It took me good amount of time as the glue takes some time to dry and then care has to be taken to keen everything aligned per the original design on the canvas.

On completing both the leaves, I moved onto to the mid-lines. These lines were a lot easier to work upon. Pretty straight, I cut these per the length and added one at a time. Very soon I was done with both the leave in its entirety (pic 10)

In this step, I took 5 inches of jute cord and placed it across the end of the pencil as seen in pic 3. Then, I made run the jute cord around the pencil 20 times as shown in pic 4. Then, I made a knot with the base cord on the pencil. Later pulled these rings formed with the jute cord. Finally tied up the base cord. And a flower with petals is formed as seen in pic 5. Using the same technique I made the rest 5 flowers.

Finally I attached these flowers 3 each on either sides of the leaves and adorned these by glueing big white beads.

Congratulations. With this my artwork was ready to go on the wall. I added a pair of handmade wooden on the sides to add some additional handmade touch.

Wasn't this a simple, budget-friendly and cool fibre art?