FOUR STEPS

Make your own fruits pot out of simple material from kitchen

It might look like a floating fragile piece of cloth, but, in reality, it's a hard fruit pot as you can see it the photo below.

It is all made out of kitchen material, corn flour, flour, and water. This might be the longest assignment as in time; the mold took one day and the textile took 3 days to dry.

NOW LET'S BAKE THE CAKE


 

 

PHASE 1 |Design the mold in 2D

Since i must make my own mold and not just use any mold, I decided to make my own pot out of wooden laser cut sheets.

Using illustrator and simple geometric calculations, I designed 2D disks to form a layered 3D pot to use it as a mold for my composites assignment. The disks are cut on 2 sheets of wood. The four sets are different in dimensions and the difference between each set and the other is 1/4.

Mold design 2D

 

PHASE 2 |Laser cutting the mold

After cutting the disks in four sets, it is now time to glue them together to form the mold using regular white glue. This process took two hours to finish gluing all the disks together.

laser cutting the 4 sets

 

PHASE 3 |Putting them together

How is how I put them together?
Start with the largest circle in the largest set and proceed with the next set (the largest circle of the next smaller set...etc)

Make sure that the glue is applied in moderation and that it is spread eaqually to have a strong built stable built. Try to centralize the circles as much as possible to have symmetric shape.

This technique can be used to make endless 3D shapes such as a longer wavey flower pot or a wooden jar.

step1 step2 STEP3 step4

final mold

 

PHASE 4 |Creating the composite

I chose the cron flour solidifying technique because it can be easily acquired, found at home, and not dangerous or toxic and easy to use.

Ingedients:
ingredients

1- Make the mixture

Water - Corn Flour - Flour

STEPS:

  1. Pour the water into the bowl
  2. Apply 1 large tbsp of corn flour and mix in water until u get a white sticky liquid
  3. then apply 1/2 cup of regular white flour
  4. Mix the ingredients until well blended
water corn flour flour mix

 

2- Prepare the mold

Mold - Cellophane - kitchen soap - brush

STEPS:

  1. Cover the mold with the cellophane
  2. Press the cellophane into the pot to take the shape of the mold
  3. Isolate the cellophane with the kitchen soap (for the textile not to stick to the cellophane when applied and dried)
mold cut cellophane cover the mold
cover brush and soap isolate

3- Apply the textile

This is the fun part. Watch your textile transforming from a wet towel into a hard fruit pot. Here are the last steps for the magic to work.

STEPS:

  1. Cut the desired part of the textile
  2. Dip it into the mixture, making sure that it is completely wet
  3. Cover the mold with the textile; make sure you don't stretch it while doing so otherwise it is going to shrink losing the mold shape
  4. Leave it form 24 hours at least
cut dip WET straighten

4- Our pot is ready

Pull the textile off gently. You have the choice either to cut the excess textile or to leave it randomly shaped; I found it cool so I left as it is.
Bon Appetit!

 

Files

Pot design (mold)

 

 

 

 

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