💠 MACRAME 101 – How to Prepare Driftwood
💠 MACRAME 101 – How to Prepare Driftwood
MACRAME 101 – How to Prepare Driftwood
This is how to properly clean and disinfect your driftwood to prepare it for your macrame textile art.
💙 Please follow safety precautions
💙 Take care to properly dispose chemicals according to your municipality.
SUPPLIES
– Driftwood
– Sand paper
– Bleach
– Large bucket
– Spray paint
– Rubber gloves
– Work gloves
– Safety glasses
– Dust mask
– Drop cloth
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Unique driftwood prep video. Bleaching in a bathtub can clean large pieces. The matte clear finish did not alter the wood. I am just starting crafting with driftwood. I’ve been pulling all kinds of large and small driftwood out of the lake I live by. I’m trying to figure out what to do with it. I did make some macramé hanging baskets (for plants) over 30 years ago. I will watch more of your videos.
Do you use cold or hot water?
Great video and your boy did a fantastic job! Thanks
What is the spray you are using? Is it wood oil spray?
Thanks for sharing. I wrapped my driftwood with plastic bag for a week to stop any oxygen supply ( if there’s any insects) now I put them in a bath with water and bleach as you suggested. Will it kill for sure any insects? It’s my biggest 😨 especially when it’s going to be hung above my bed. Thanks
This DIY is so useful!!
I do not put my driftwood in clorox unless I want to change the color of the wood. To get rid of any micro bugs, I simply use a large plastic bag, spray the inside with a bug killer. Seal the bag and leave it for 24 hours. This gets rid of any bugs.
Thanks for the video! If I don’t want to do the bleach part, it’s just clean and spray paint? Can I use polyurethane water-based for interiors? Thanks
Thank you you are the best !
💙 Do you think all this prep is necessary? Let me know I’m curious what your thoughts are.
Also here’s an easy tutorial using Driftwood: https://youtu.be/p8vjiF4T1Jo
Recommend using bleach tablets instead of u don’t naturally keep bleach on hand..which I don’t.
Perfect tutorial for what I was looking for. Thx!
great art!
"Bugs and bacteria" – so obvious and I hadn’t thought about that at all! (I promise im not being nasty)Thank you! 🤩
I want to clean and bleach a ½ft x ½ft thick and 5ft long – partly rotted one end, 400 year old English oak beam. Will this work?
I’m just starting to learn how to macrame and I went and bought some supplies. I haven’t figured out how to hang the dowel or stick. Do I have to buy some type of hook and make holes in my wall, I’m hoping to avoid this. I’d appreciate suggestions please.
Thanks for the video!
I live in an apartment with no way of letting sticks outside to dry. Can I dry the sticks in my living room near a window for a week? (On top of a plastic dropcloth of course)
I live in Pittsburgh and we get rain most days – the upcoming forecast says rain for the next 2 weeks. Since it’ll be indoors should I wait for a week when the sun is supposed to come out?
I want my sticks to have a really bleached look – so if the sun is 100% necessary in achieving that I’ll probably wait it out.
from where to Buy this bleach? Chemist /hardware store ?
Just wondering if you felt that spray paint made your wood more warm in shade? I’m just using dead tree branches and not wood that has already been bleached by the sun. I don’t want to do all this prep work to get a nice neutral ashy colored wood and then coat it with something that makes it yellow or warm in tone…any suggestions?
What is your ratio of bleach to water? Unless I missed it, this seems like a critical piece of information. I appreciate your caution. I am going to do this outside because the weather is nice and seems even safer.
OMG, I have driftwood all over my house from the river behind my house – never occurred to me there ere bugs in, yikes!
Thanks for sharing! I didn’t think about prepping the woods… now it’s too late, my macrame is already hanging 😅 but i will do a few of your recommendations next time.
any idea whether this product would be aquarium safe?
If you’re interested in a water-based clear coat, there is one I used on wood and even after a decade or longer (inside the house) it’s still looks great. Polycrylic. It brushes on or you can use a paint sprayer if you have one. Just an FYI as an alternative.
I don’t have any kids and pets in the house, instead I have a lot of deamons in the house, any suggestions? 😆
For real, I thank you so much
Does this also make your art fireproof by adding the spray paint? Thanks in advance.
Thank you!! Can the wood be stained or painted before you spray it?
good info
great channel
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