The application requires several types of tools.
To perform the necessary sketches, graph paper, drawing paper, copy paper, ruler and a right triangle, pencils, Laundry service, pushpin. To prepare straw in curvilinear layers of an application need a thin plain paper.
The main tools in geometric appliques are (photo 34): knife, pot, sharpened at an angle of 45°; scalpel; brushes; jar with varnish; bath with a sponge soaked in water; pencil; ruler; square; compass; surface gauge. For curved application additionally required a small nail scissors with smooth blades; round and oval cutting with diameters from 2 to 20 mm; a metal or plastic device for splitting straw into strips.
Ancillary tools include: cleance, utensils for cooking, the soil, the capacity for dyeing and bleaching straws, abrasive pads, abrasive paper No. 0-2, a grindstone for sharpening tools, goods for the bonding or clamp.
Tools and accessories for the application have to be properly chosen, well-honed. The sharper the tools, the better and easier the work will be carried more accurately translated figure.
A large pair of scissors or a penknife are necessary for cleaning the straw and making a straw ribbon.
You must also have perhydrol 15 -, or 32%, dyes, stains, varnishes, gouache paint, fiberboard, burlap, plywood for the base panels.
For weaving you will need (photo 35):
a large pair of scissors to clean the straw, nail clippers with straight blades, set of sewing needles, hardwood and glued cardboard patterns for weaving three-dimensional forms;
thread cotton No. 10; thread reinforced cotton or light-coloured No. 40, fishing line 0.18— 0.2 mm;
the wire is copper or aluminum with a diameter of 1.5—3 mm for frames;
PVA glue "Moment" AGO to otkleivanie elements of weaving and fixing Solomin in the braids;
wooden stick or a rolling pin for rolling of flat braided;
press for drying flat wicker.
