How to weave gum bracelets on a starter fork

If you have already tried to weave jewelry on your fingers, but have not yet bought a machine, use an ordinary fork. If you take a plastic and remove the middle teeth, there will be an alternative to a slingshot. On four cloves, the drawing is more dense and neat. Not sure how to weave gum bracelets on a fork? Read the tips and step-by-step instructions below.

What is required

Before learning how to weave gum bracelets on a fork, prepare everything you need so as not to be distracted during work. Take the following:

• Erasers of different colors (or one).
• Plastic or metal plug (one or two).
  
• Hook or toothpick to gum rubber.
• Clasps for connecting bracelets to a ring.

How to weave gum bracelets on a fork

For the first experience, use rubber bands of the same color. Having mastered the technology of weaving, in the future you will easily alternate colors, getting a rainbow bracelet or any other combination of two, three, etc. shades.

Thus, you can create completely different bracelets from rubber bands, the schemes will be used the same.

To weave a tight wide bracelet, work like this:

1. Take the first rubber band and fold in half, and then, twisting in the form of a figure eight, put on two middle teeth.
2. Take another rubber band and in the same way (doubled and twisted with an eight) put on the two extreme left teeth.
3. Repeat the previous step with only two right teeth.
4. Throw the lower double gum on the middle cloves through the top behind the fork away from you. As a result, all double loops will be arranged in a row. If there is no hook, you can use a toothpick to remove the rubber bands. The thin tip of a small wooden stick is much more convenient to pick up tiny tight rings than fingers.
5. Put on the next rubber band folded in half, but without twisting on the middle cloves.
6. Throw again the lower double loops on the middle cloves through the top for the fork.
7. Put on an elastic band folded in half without twisting on the extreme two cloves on the left, and then on the right.
8. Throw the bottom double loops from all the cloves back.
9. Next, the sequence repeats: one rubber band - on the middle, throw off the lower loops, one - on the extreme, fold off all the cloves, that is, steps from No. 5 to No. 8 to the desired length of the bracelet.
   
   

How to finish weaving

You have learned how to make a bracelet from rubber bands on one fork. A dense, even and neat pattern is important to fix correctly, so that the resulting strip of rubber bands fits comfortably on your wrist. Complete the product as follows:

1. When four double loops in a row remain on the fork, transfer the outer loops to the middle cloves.
2. Throw the lower loops back.
3. Put one double rubber on the middle teeth again without twisting.
4. Throw the lower loops back.
5. Transfer the remaining two loops to one clove (right to left or vice versa).
6. Take the clasp and carefully transfer the resulting pair of double loops to one horn of the clasp. If this does not work right away, first transfer them to a hook or a toothpick, if there is no hook, and already from this tool to the clasp.
7. Hook the second fastener horn onto the first weave loop, which was placed in the middle in the form of a figure eight.

That's it, the bracelet is locked in a ring. You can try on.

How to make gum bracelets on two forks

The next method is also quite simple, but less convenient, since the rubber bands will be used not doubled, but single. They are easier to pry, but you will have to constantly pull the weaving back, aligning the structure. The pattern that will be executed resembles a mesh or chain mail. Usually done on a machine tool. If you have not bought this tool yet, use two forks. You will learn how to weave a bracelet from gum "Dragon Scales" on such a makeshift machine. The forks need to be connected to each other on an elastic band or rigidly fixed in some base so that 8 cloves go sequentially.

Two-fork operation

Weaving "Dragon Scales" is performed as follows:

1. Take the first rubber band and, having formed a figure of eight from it, put it on the first and second clove on the left.
2. Also place one rubber band on the next pair of cloves of both forks.
3. In the next step, put on non-crossed rubber bands on the middle teeth of each fork and a pair of those that are in the middle of the entire structure, that is, on the right of the left fork and on the left of the right fork.
4. Drop the lower rubber bands through the top back on each of the cloves where two rows of loops are placed (those cloves that were used in the previous step).
5. Similar to the first row, but without crossing by eights, put on the rubber band sequentially on pairs of cloves, starting from the left edge.
6. Throw the lower eyelets back through the top on each clove.
7. Repeat steps 3 through 6 to the desired length.
   

How to fasten a bracelet

To learn how to make a bracelet from rubber bands on two forks was not difficult. To complete the weaving, work like this:

1. Put one rubber band on each fork, bypassing each clove, that is, each rubber band will be twisted in the form of a double eight in series on four cloves.
2. Throw the lower loops from each clove back.
3. Tighten the weave.
4. Throw the extreme loops on each of the forks to the middle cloves. On the middle cloves of both forks, you had a pair of eyelets.
5. Put on the clasps. Since the bracelet is wide, they will need four. Remove the loops from each clove on the horn of the clasp.
6. Fix the second horn of each clip in the corresponding loops at the beginning of weaving.

You can try on the product.

Now you know how to weave gum bracelets on a fork. Use ready-made schemes or invent your own options. Create original jewelry from Rainbow Loom Bands.