Van een houten koffieroerstaafje heb ik het houten gedeelte
van de witkwast in laagjes opgebouwd, de steel is gesneden van een sier
cocktailprikker.
Na het boren van een 1,2 mm gaatje in de houten laagjes
paste de steel er netjes in, de steel heb ik echter pas op gelijmd NADAT de
haren op de 3 laagjes hout zijn gelijmd en goed droog waren. Op die manier kun
je de haren nog wat bij vormen en zit het steeltje niet in de weg.
Hierna heb ik de kwast gemillimeterd met een scherpe schaar.
Let erop dat je de haren recht afknipt, de stugge varkensharen hebben de
neiging om voor de schaar uit te wijken!
I built up the wooden part of the whitewash brush in layers
from a wooden coffee stirrer, the handle is cut from an ornamental cocktail
stick.
After drilling a 1,2 mm hole in the wooden layers, the
handle fit neatly in, however, I only glued the handle AFTER the hairs have
been glued to the 3 layers of wood and were thoroughly dry. That way you can
shape the hair a bit more and the stem is not in the way.
After this I cut to size the brush hairs with sharp
scissors. Make sure you cut the hair straight, the stiff pig bristles tend to
deflect of the scissors!
De bus waar de haren uit getrokken zijn, heb ik opnieuw gebruikt om
een ouderwets verfblik van te maken. Aangezien één kant afgeplat was om de
haren vast te kunnen houden, heb ik die weer opgebold met de tang. Ik ga hierin
nog een bodem witkalk maken.
To make an old-fashioned paint can, I reused the nickle part of the handle (which contains the hair), where I pulled out the hair. Since one side was flattened
to hold the hair, I puffed it up again with the pliers. I still have to make a
leftover of whitewash in this.
Inmiddels zijn de muren van de opkamer gewit met witkalk,
als je goed kijkt kun je zien dat ik de muren van de mini boerderij met een
kwast wit en niet met een verfroller. Het moet tenslotte wel een beetje écht
lijken, toch?!
Meanwhile, the walls of the up stairs room have been
whitewashed, if you look closely you can see that I am whitewashing the walls
of the mini farm with a brush and not with a paint roller. After all, it has to
look a bit realistic, right ?!
Terwijl mini oma bezig is in de opkamer, ben ik begonnen met
het maken van de deur tussen de opkamer en de woonkamer (zie plattegrond rechts, kamernummers 8 en 9).
While mini grandma is busy in the up stairs room, I started
making the door between the up stairs room and the living room (see the right sidebar floor plan, room numbers 8 and 9).
De deuren in het woongedeelte van de boerderij waren
allemaal van vurenhout gemaakt en bewerkt met een aloude verftechniek, “houten”
genaamd (een vurenhouten deur werd zó beschilderd dat het op een eiken deur
leek). Ik heb op een oude foto uit de jaren ’50 nog een stukje van deze deur
kunnen zien, zie de gele pijlen op de foto hierboven.
The doors in the living part of the farmhouse were all made
of pine wood and treated with an ancient painting technique the so called
“wooden” technique (painting of fake wood grain, to make the pinewood door look
like an oak one, in this case). On an old photo from the 1950s I was able to
see a part of this door, see the yellow arrows on the photo above.
De profielen van deze deuren zijn ook weer gemaakt met
behulp van een kruishout en oude tandarts tools. Meer over het maken van deze deur in een volgend blogbericht.
The profiles of these doors are also made with the help of a
so called "cross wood" (I still don't know how it's named in
English) and old dentist tools. More on making this door in an other blog post.
Afgelopen zondag was het Moederdag, ik kreeg deze twee
prachtige boeketten van mijn gezin, die ondanks mijn zelfisolatie toch nog aan
mij hadden gedacht 💝. Bovenop één van de pioenrozen zit OP de bloem nòg een
bloem, apart hè?! Ik wil mijn bloemen graag met ieder van jullie delen, zodat
de wereld een beetje vrolijker wordt….
Blijf gezond, zorg goed voor elkaar en jezelf.
Dank voor jullie fijne reacties, een heel fijn weekeinde toegewenst
Last Sunday here, in The Netherlands, it was Mother's Day, I
received these two beautiful bouquets from my family, who, despite my
self-isolation, had still thought of me 💝. ON top of one of the peonies is
another flower on top of another flower, isn't it special ?! I would like to
share my flowers with each of you, so that the world becomes a little brighter….
Stay healthy, take care of each other and yourself.
Thank you for your kind comments, I wish you a very nice
weekend.
Ilona
16 opmerkingen:
I love the little white wash brush! It's so perfectly worn and used looking.
Happy belated Mother's Day!
It's always very interesting to read about customs on the farm, I love leaning more and more about how your grandparents lived. The brush is wonderful and so realistic.
Geneviève
Encore une fois quel réalisme, brosse et pinceau sont parfaits !
Tes grands parents avaient une vie bien remplie.
Bonne fin de journée Ilona ! Bises.
que buena esa brocha para encalar! y tus flores ...envidio esas peonías ...
The brush is so realistic! Grandma will be very busy.
Beautiful and colorful real flowers.
I had to go find out what the English (or at least American) name for the tool is: marking gauge. So boring compared to crosswood. Your work is amazing.
La abuela tiene que estar feliz con la maravillosa brocha que has realizado para el encalado de la paredes, es asombrosa, tan realista, me encanta!!
Preciosas flores naturales que cumplen dos funciones, el amor de tu familia y alegría para nuestra vista!!
Besos.
Ha merecido la pena el sacrificio de tu viejo pincel, te ha quedado perfecta la brocha para el blanqueado de la mini granja. Las flores preciosas, cuídate , besos
Están super fantásticos. Son muy reales.
Un saludo
La brocha ha quedado fantástica. Ha sido buena idea utilizar un pincel ya viejo.
Encantadores ramos de flores.
The brush is perfect. Life on a farm must have been very hard for your grandparents, especially if there were few modern facilities. The brush turned out very realistic. I love the way you used the metal part of the handle.
Dear Ilona, usually when I see flowers in vases in your photos, I think they are real and it turns out they are miniatures done by you. This time I was sure they were miniatures and they turned out real. How confusing......
Hugs, Drora
Fantastic repurpose, Ilona! It's so much fun to learn about the maintenance and processes on the farm! Especially when you create everything in mini replicas! The flowers are so beautiful, and I hope everyone in the family can get vaccinated soon so you can all be together again. Hugs!
The mini brushes were certainly worth sacrificing your favorite old paint brush, Ilona.
Thank you again for your clear photos and tutorial on how to (with practice) make fabulous mini items. I had bee wondering how to make brushes like this. Now I will have to try it.
I hope you had a nice Mother's day, even if you are still isolating. Those beautiful bouquets surely would have brightened the day.
Hugs,
Anna
If you would only know how much I've enjoyed this post... ;O) It was so lovely to see Mini-Grandma and to see how you've made this stunning brush. How kind of your trusted RL brush to come along with well appreciated shades of used brown - that's what I'd call a good service! *LOL* The walls look awesome and the first photo of this post looks so real, at first sight I thought this was a picture from your RL spring cleaning.
And as always it was great to follow your explanations aka the reason why you're doing the things you do, in this case the whitewash. It made me smile to hear about the deel as we use the same word here too in our own language "Plattdüütsch" (Low German is in fact a language and not a dialect and very related to Dutch) and it even found its way into the German language as "Diele". And we also have a well known song "Dans op de Deel" - now I wonder... perhaps Little You and Schepje might practice a little May dance now op de deel...?! ;O)
Hugs
Birgit
Dear Ilona, I think the "sacrifice" of your old paintbrush was worth it! You ended up with an amazing "old" brush for your mini Grandma and got a paint can too! It is always heartwarming to see your mini Grandma, but I have to hope she had help with the painting... maybe Koos was not too tired to help a bit? That seems like a lot of work for every year! LOL! As always, I am fascinated by your Grandparents Farm, and the pieces you make are just exquisite!!! Oh, and Happy Mothers Day too! The bouquets are beautiful! :):)
All that mucking out and whitewashing sounds like really hard work. But I can just imagine how glad people were that the winter is finally over. Your Mother's day flowers are beautiful. I hope they lasted a long time and spread beauty and fragrance throughout your house.
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