Gorgeous chandelier from plastic bottles

That's such an unusual and beautiful chandelier can be done by hand using colored plastic bottles! We offer you a master class ...

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We need:
- Plastic bottles of different colors of your choice,
- Scissors,
- Soldering iron for the treatment of leaves,
- A thin wire to twist the branches,
- For steel wire frame


Plastic bottles cut into pieces - value depends on you devise leaves. Then attach each piece of the shape of a leaf, then only need your imagination ... I did something on the similarity of birch leaves.


Turn the soldering iron. Better to take a soldering iron with a thick tip (so more likely to get on the falling edge of a leaf, and not on the fingers))), with one-sided slant ...
Podplavlyaem sections, so leaves look more impressive, especially in the light bulb. Just the edge of the tip draws veins on a leaf, but carefully - they quickly on the penetrating through)))



As plastic bottles themselves cylindrical, the leaves are obtained and not flat. The point is that by heating the soldering iron grates them in an unknown direction, they look on this as a result of a very personal)))
Now you have to melted the red-hot needle in each leaf on a couple dyrdochek for procrastination. One hole is small, because leaf will hang out as he pleases, by the force of Earth's gravity, but we still need to leaves sticking out as we wish)


Take a thin wire to the stem (I have copper from sovpedovskogo stabilizer))) cut into pieces the length of 15-20cm. Take a leaf and is passed to it from the wire holes in the eight hole) ... near the ends of the wires are twisted leaf 10-15 mm. One of the tips strung next leaf, since at the hole, and so on - are strung curl ...
Well, so as to shape the very twig is the brain of every man spreads, despite what you wish to leave the ends of the wires ... not less than 2 cm. Takes the next wire, fold in half, caught on the last leaf and twisted together with a tail from the previous delays, inch by 2 -3 ... Sprig becomes thicker in the 4 wires ...) further branches are forming at the discretion of course that leaves should alternate in size and color ...


Now we have to come up with a skeleton form ...
For me personally, it was the most difficult ... I've done in the form of spheres ... must take into account the fact that in entoy design and more light is present, the chandelier all are the same ... I just made a frame with a hole in the top to chuck climbed.
For framework took 5 pieces of steel wire 60-70 cm. Flexed their C-shape and put them in a ring of plastic bottles, leaving a 5-coal hole in the center - it has 10 branches ...
Well, here at this building now and it is necessary to wind invented twigs ... better start from the bottom, and then impose on the principle of shingles.
The frame had for convenience hang on a string - in the supine position, as I thought, it's just impossible to collect ...



The next crucial step is the way to fix this creation on the ceiling. I did not bother, hung on a piece of steel wire and disguised el.provod and suspension same leaves ...
Looks, of course, very well when the lamp in the evening)))