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upcycled coffee bag basket

My friend had collected 80 Reykjavik coffee packages from his workplace. First I thought about making a bag out of them, but the light colored material with a malty surface is not necessarily the best for that purpose. I decided to weave a basket similar to the one I made earlier from Juhla Mokka bags, but instead of square weaving, I used zigzag weaving.

A few more coffee bags are used for zigzag weaving compared to a square weaving in a basket of the same size, because in zigzag weaving, the edges of the basket are formed by branches, which in this basket are folded to the inside of the edge. This way, the edge becomes more stable, which is why the extra used coffee bags are not particularly harmful. I also decided to add carrying handles from ribbon to this basket.

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58 coffee bags were used in this basket. I cut three strips from each coffee bag, making a total of 172 strips that are 6,8 cm wide and 2,3 cm when folded. The height of the finished basket is 21 cm and the size of the base is 21 x 31,5 cm.

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The bottom of the basket consists of two parts and the edges are made of two zigzag layers. You can watch all the work stages of weaving in the video below.

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large white and black coffee bag basket

These older Juhla Mokka coffee bags are one of my all time favorite, because of the alignment of the white parts of the logos on the bag. In the newer Juhla Mokka bags the logos are not aligned with each other, so it is impossible to weave this type of white and black design. There are 156 strips in the basket that have been cut one/coffee bag. The rest of the coffee bag material is enough for couple of other projects.

This basket consists of nine squares, five triangles and two corner pieces. You can see how the weaving technique of the triangle effects on the design the way that not all the parts of the triangle are white based. Luckily only one little triangle is showing red on each woven triangle so it doesn’t effect the whole design that much.

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The pieces are joined wit 1 cm wide gift string. See the whole making of the basket on the video below:

As you can see there are few red parts on the edge of the basket, but it is quite unnoticeable, because the inside of the basket is the same color.

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upcycled coffee bag basket

large white and black coffee bag basket