How to weave rubber bands: a detailed description

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

Materials and fixtures

To learn how to weave rings from elastic bands, it is worth immediately preparing the necessary materials and repeating all the steps in practice in sequence. So, you need the following:

• Multi-colored rubber bands.
• Slingshot.
• Hook.
• Machine.
• A lock for those rings that will not be connected using the loops themselves.

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

Work technology

If you already know how to weave gum bracelets, the ring will not be a problem. The principles for creating patterns are the same. The beginning of the product and the folding of the stitches are the same. Some options are created completely similar to bracelets, only shorter. According to more complex schemes, a whole set of jewelry can be made on the machine - a ring and a bracelet with the same decor in the form of flowers.

Interesting ideas

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

Use your fingers

If you are immediately interested in the question of how to weave a ring of rubber bands without a machine tool, then you should know: all the options that are braided on two columns of a machine tool or slingshot can also be done on fingers. Some schemes are easy to implement, others are 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 carried out on a slingshot or a machine, you can always postpone it for some period, and then complete it. Fingers are harder.

Homemade tool

If you study the instructions on how to weave a rubber ring on a slingshot, you don’t have the last one, and it’s very difficult to make such decoration on your fingers, it’s worth making a semblance of your own with a slingshot. To do this, just take two identical sticks, such as felt-tip pens or pencils. Fix them at an angle and place a regular eraser between them. You can fasten parts, for example, with tape.

How to weave a "Flower" ring from elastic bands (the simplest option)

You can perform a five-petal flower in just two minutes. Use a slingshot or a machine with two columns, although it is quite possible to do with your own fingers. The sequence of work is as follows:

1. Put one elastic band of color No. 1 on the right horn and twist it three times.
2. Put a pair of rubber bands of color No. 2 on both horns without crossing and twisting.
3. Drop the element of the first color from the right horn to the middle between the columns.
4. Drag the second color element (upper right double loop) to the left column.
5. Repeat the sequence of steps 1 to 4 as many times as necessary (according to the number of petals), for example five.
6. Put another rubber band of color No. 2 on both horns without crossing and transfer using the hook the elements made on the left column to the center between the horns.
7. Put on top of both horns another gum of the second color and discard the loops of the lower gum through the top for the slingshot.
8. From the right horn, transfer 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 a loop on your finger and wear a ring.

Slingshot Bead Ring

In this embodiment, the base is made, and any bead is used as a decor. In the previous scheme, it is assumed that one loop is put on the finger, and the jewelry is woven directly. The principle of operation used here is called the fish tail. If you made bracelets in this way, it will not be difficult to make a ring.

So, read how to weave a rubber band on a slingshot using beads. The sequence of work is as follows:

1. Put on the slingshot the first eraser.
2. Put on a couple more elastic bands without crossing.
3. Drop through the top of the loop of the lower elastic to the middle.
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 sequentially until the middle of the ring.
5. Pass one double-folded elastic band through the prepared bead.
6. Put the elastic with a bead on the horns of the slingshot and discard the lower loops through the top to the middle.
7. Continue weaving by repeating step 4 until the desired ring length.
8. Drop the upper hinges also towards the middle.
9. Throw the remaining upper right loop to the left column.
10. Thread another rubber band through the loops on the left column and secure with a dead loop.
11. Pull the first loop of the ringlet and pull the last through it. Fix the remaining tail of the last gum, sequentially crocheting it through the elements of the ring. Another option is to use a clip to join the braided strip into a ring.

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

Using the same technology, several other ringlets can be made, for example, without a bead or with several decorative elements. In the latter version, the main thing is to correctly calculate the number of loops between the beads so that they are located at an equal distance.

Weave a little ring with a flower on the machine

Using the technology described below, you can create different options for jewelry. To do this, it is enough to change the colors of the rubber bands that form the petals. If you use white gum, you will get chamomile, if blue or blue - forget-me-not.

So, read how to weave a rubber band on a machine. Work as follows:

1. Prepare the machine. You will need six pins arranged in two rows of three columns. Take gum in three shades: two for petals, for example blue and blue, and brown for the middle and base. Put on one brown elastic band around the perimeter of all six posts.
2. Remove the edges of the elastic band from the corner column to the middle and wrap around the column with a loop. Do the same with the remaining corner posts, and then with the remaining ones. As a result, a contour in the form of a rectangle should be obtained inside six columns.
3. Lower the circuit below.
4. Put on two blue elastic bands along the diagonals of the rectangle and stretch one on the two central columns.
5. Second place the white rubber bands in the same pattern.
6. Put the blue ones next to them in the same way.
7. Take another brown gum and put on the perimeter of the six columns.
8. On each of the six columns, crochet the lower brown elastic band up, putting on the column.
9. From one middle column, transfer the brown eyelet to the second center.
10. Also transfer all the other brown loops from the other posts to this one. First, shoot from the farthest in relation to the one you put on, then from the neighboring ones. All brown gum ends up on the same pin.
11. Take another brown gum and gently thread it through the rest of the gum of the same color. As a result, you will get two loops, one on the left side of the ring of all brown elastic bands, the second on the right. Now you can remove the flower from the posts without removing it from the hook. Start work with the corner petals, last of all remove from the middle ones.

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

How to weave a rubber ring "Spider"

Prepare elastic bands of black, gray or two-tone, for example, black with transparent. The sequence of work will be as follows:

1. First complete the leg blanks. Take a pair of rubber bands and lay them on top of each other. Bind them by tightening the knot. As a result, you get a detail that looks like a bow.
2. Repeat the previous step with two more pairs of elastic bands.
3. We turn to weaving on a slingshot or a mini-machine with two columns. Take one elastic band and place it between the tops of the slingshot. This gum will be used later.
4. On the right column put on the second elastic band and twist it four times.
5. Put on another elastic band, but now on both tops, twist it twice.
6. Take the hook and throw the gum 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 down, securing them under the roundings of the slingshot, so that it is more convenient to work further.
8. Do the same with the second and third pair of legs.
9. Put the next elastic on both tops of the slingshot, twist twice.
10. Throw the first upper gum on the right column through the top to the middle.
11. Throw the very first gum left in stock through the left side through the top to the middle.
12. Throw 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, and transfer the one that was on the left to the right to the center between the horns.
14. Carefully cut with scissors all the loops of the legs.
15. Remove the last loop remaining on the left horn onto the hook and tighten the knot stronger.

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

So, you have learned how to weave gum rings. This is not at all difficult. Choose simple methods first, then when you master them, proceed to work with the machine and weave more original things.