What Are Lattice-Style Weaving Strips?
Lattice is a series of interlaced strips that are placed together to make a pattern. Lattice strips can be cut in even or uneven sizes to achieve different desired looks and then laid flat, woven together or stacked to create an artistic design. Lattice is popular in baskets, paper crafts, to use on top of pies or to make wooden structures to decorate your home or garden. Does this Spark an idea?
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Cooking
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Strips can be cut from fresh pastry dough, frozen pie crusts, bread dough or tortillas to make various recipes. Fresh pastry dough or tortilla shells cut into strips are woven together in an over-under pattern with gaps between each strip to make a decorative pie top. These tops are typically placed on fruit-filled pies, allowing the fruit to rise up somewhat towards the top providing a colorful and visually appealing display. For bread dough the strips are woven together before baking and the finished look results in a beautiful, tight-woven looking loaf of bread.
Woodworking
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In woodworking, lattice strips are used to make decorative panels for gazebos, fences and porch screens or trellises. The strips are not always woven in woodworking, rather they are laid flat diagonally in one direction, then laid flat diagonally in the second direction. Lattice that is woven must be cut into notched strips to allow the wood strips to sit flat against each other. The pieces are then fitted together and the notches lined up with each other to achieve the woven look. Lattice weaving is also used in making flat sitting surfaces for chairs.
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Paper Crafts
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Strips of paper in various lengths can be woven together in lattice style to create paper place mats, background paper for scrapbooks or to weave small paper baskets. When making place mats the lattice weaving strips are woven inside of a piece of paper that has slits cut into it. This keeps the paper together around the edges without adhesive. Alternatively, the strips can be glued and then the edges decorated to cover the ends. Lattice woven paper provides a dual thickness to the project in addition to the decorative look.
Basket Weaving
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Using strips of ribbon or wood that have been soaked in water, the strips are woven together to create a basket. The difference between a basket and standard lattice is that in basket weaving the strips continue to be woven around and upwards until the reaching the end of the strip. Then a new strip is started and tucked under the end of the last strip to conceal the edges. The baskets can be woven as squares, circles or ovals.
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