Making bread handicrafts is the prerogative of citizens serving sentences in prison. It is also known from the literature of the Soviet period that this occupation, in particular the stucco molding of inkwells, was the political prisoner Vladimir Ulyanov-Lenin. It takes a little patience and imagination to carry out this experiment - making an inkwell out of bread.
Necessary
- - bread;
- - sugar;
- - boiling water;
- - cloth or sieve.
Instructions
Step 1
First, select the material for making the product - bread. White wheat bread made from 2nd or 3rd grade flour is best for this activity. Fresh is desirable.
Step 2
An inkwell can be crafted in 2 ways.
Method 1: thoroughly knead the crumb of white bread in your hands, add sugar (so that the craft does not crack when it dries). The amount of sugar depends on the quality of the bread: the better it is, the more sugar you need.
Step 3
Knead the bread for at least an hour until all the sugar is dissolved. The workpiece should resemble plasticine in consistency.
Step 4
In the absence of such an important ingredient as sugar, knead the bread for 5 hours - it should be moist from the sweat of your hands.
Step 5
From the resulting "plasticine" and make an inkwell. To do this, roll a ball of bread and make a depression in it with your fingers.
Step 6
The ink bottle should dry itself. If you put it in the sun or a battery, small cracks may appear.
Step 7
You can add food coloring to your bread to create a colored inkwell.
Step 8
The second method is used to make the most durable crafts. Pour the pulp and sugar with a small amount of boiling water.
Step 9
Leave the resulting mass in a warm place until the bread begins to sour.
Step 10
After the bread has soured, rub everything through a cloth or a fine sieve.
Step 11
Dry the resulting mass. While drying, periodically knead it with your hands to bring it to the consistency of plasticine.
Step 12
Blind an inkwell from the blank. The resulting product will be hard, like a stone, so before it hardens, make a depression in the rolled ball. Otherwise, you won't be able to do it later. And instead of an inkwell you will have a bun.
Step 13
Products made in this way have great strength, do not deteriorate, do not stick to your hands and will serve you for a long time.
