How To Make A Corn Husk Mat

Turn the husks once a day moving the bottom ones to the top and mixing them up for even drying.

How to make a corn husk mat.

Secure undersides of husks with t pins as you go. Corn husks 6 8 for the larger adult dolls and 2 4 for the child size dolls a container with water twine string felt or cloth for doll clothing and accessories scissors optional hot glue gun for decorations. This should take you about 2 hours to make. Large quantities of corn husks are wasted every year which might be made useful in many ways an article in the 1874 issue of the journal american agriculturalist offered instructions for making indoor and outdoor floor mats from braided corn husks a ubiquitous byproduct in farming communities throughout the united states.

Use the tender supple inner husks for the weavers weft of the basket. Dunk corn husks in water blot slightly on paper towels and wrap around wreath overlapping edges of husks to form a first layer that covers straw entirely. Soak cornhusks that have been thoroughly dried beforehand for 10 minutes in warm water. Cut a small bundle to about 12 centimeter 4 7 in in length.

This also form s the corn dolly s torso. In this video ive shown how to use corn husk rather then throwing it away. String scissors a bucket of water bags of cornhusks most easily purchased dried cleaned and in uniform sizes at a local craft store cornhusk doll diagram page print out. Push this through the body just under the head.

Bowl of water and paper towels. Tie a piece of raffia directly under the arms on the body to keep them in place. You will need the husks from three or four ears of corn for a small 3 basket. Use the coarse stiff outer husks for the spokes warp.

Put the husks and silk in separate boxes on paper towels. I just love corn so i thought why throw its husk away and make something usefull. Cut off the tough core ends of the husks and try to lay out the silk so that the strands are all going in the same direction. Secure undersides of husks with t pins as you go.