Ever wondered what on earth to do with your old newspapers?
The design studios Greetie van Tiem their project ‘Indruk’ has created ‘yarn’ hand spun from strips of newspaper.
The method used is similar to that of spinning yarn from wool. By using a spindle the strips of newspaper are twisted and spun into ‘yarn’. Apparently it is possible to spin 20 yards of ‘yarn’ from a single sheet of newspaper!
Once spun the newspaper ‘yarn’ can then be used to create useful household additions such as rugs, curtains and upholstery by hand weaving.
I love the idea behind this innovative design concept. I can easily comprehend how a rug could be made possibly by using the technique of plaiting the strips to coils, a bit like the way rag rugs are made.
However, I’m struggling to see how curtains can be made! I suppose the strips of newspaper yarn could be woven together to form lengths of newspaper ‘fabric’. It would then be possible to hang the curtains from a curtain pole by using pin hooks (the sort you use when making goblet style curtain headings) and curtain rings.
Alternatively the newspaper yarn could be used in its strips to make a modern alternative to door curtains which are used to keep flying insects out in the summer!
Unless the newspaper ‘yarn’ is treated there would be no way of washing anything made from it! But still if you kept weaving you could just replace them and of course it would be ‘free’!
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