PRODUCTION: Klara van Wyngaarden | PHOTOS: Dook
If you have moved and feel overwhelmed by piles of empty cardboard boxes and your overdraft, don’t pine after the designer carpet you can’t afford. Make one instead.
You need:
• Several large cardboard boxes
• Tape measure
• Stanley knife
• Stapler
This is how:
To make a 1m x 1,5m carpet like ours, open up the boxes and place them flat on the floor.
To create texture, use different types of cardboard, such as corrugated and regular.
Measure and cut sixteen 1m and twenty five 1,5m strips of cardboard, all 6cm wide.
You will now use the age-old weaving method of “over, under, over, under” to complete the rug.
1) Lay a 1m cardboard strip on the floor and place a 1,5m strip over it so that the two ends cross each other at a 90-degree angle. They should overlap by 6cm at the ends to create a “tassel”. Staple the two strips together.
2) Now staple the second 1,5m strip 1cm from the first one, this time under the 1m strip. Continue until all the 1,5m strips have been attached to the first 1m strip, alternating one over and one under.
3) Now weave the second 1m strip through the 1,5m strips and staple it on both ends, 1cm from the previous one. Continue weaving the remaining 1m strips and stapling them 1cm apart, creating 6cm tassels on all four sides of your new, recyclable carpet.
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