How to make a bottle cork rug?

Materials (edit)

To do cork mat, first of all, it is necessary to accumulate the plugs themselves. For a small-sized product, you need about 150 pieces, if you want a bigger carpet, you will need more corks.

In addition, you need:

• cutting board;
• emery;
• knife (sharp);
• fabric base (you can take a rubber mat, rubberized fabric, soft plastic, canvas as a base);
• glue (super glue, hot glue);
• rag to remove excess glue.

Preparation

The plugs must be washed with detergent. If there are red wine corks among them, soak them overnight with bleach to bottle cork mat did not turn out to be "spotty". After that, be sure to rinse it several times in running water and dry it. Perform further work only after complete drying. Cut each cork in half, sand the sections. Do this on the board to avoid injury.

The foundation

As a basis for cork rug soft plastic, or dense rubberized fabric, and even durable canvas will do. Old mats can be used if they are strong enough. Cut out the future rug from the base and cut it out. The size depends on your desire, the preferred shapes are rectangle or square.

Layout

After preparatory work for manufacturing bottle cork mat finished, you can start the main operation. Lay out the corks starting from the edges and working towards the center. You can do it in a row, you can - alternating directions to form a pattern. If at the end of the work it is found that the plugs do not enter the remaining space, they must be carefully trimmed.

Fastening

The final and most crucial stage in creating a rug from corks is gluing them to the base. The order of work is the same as when laying out - from the edges to the center. Remove excess adhesive immediately with a cloth. Try to ensure that each half of the cork falls on the place assigned to it in advance.

Drying

It remains only to let the rug dry and, if desired, treat the bottom and edges with a sealant so that moisture does not seep through it.