In Germany, it is customary to decorate your home before Christmas with figurines depicting the birth of the infant Christ.
Here you will see New Year's crafts from a cut of wood, chaga mushroom, or in other words, tinder fungus, and wooden cuts with bark.
You don’t have to be tied to the Christmas holidays; you can make your own houses, Christmas trees, figurines, anyone, even the Bremen Town Musicians to decorate your interior!
They can be played with (they fold inwards), they are pleasant to hold in your hands, since natural materials carry warmth and energy.
Section of a log, tree trunk - transverse and longitudinal
The cuts of trunks can theoretically be either transverse or longitudinal, mostly we will talk about the former. You can get many such cuts from one log.
What they don’t do with them, what kind of crafts they do! They are suitable for room decoration - they can perfectly decorate the interior. These are countertops, floors, walls.
For crafts using wood slices, you can take different types of trees, both deciduous (birch, oak, beech) and coniferous. The leftmost one in the photo is a birch tree, as can be seen from the white birch bark on top of the bark.
Decorative vases for the interior - crafts from wood cuts
The cut pattern is generally very decorative. The end cuts can also be of small diameter - thin branches are suitable for work. I have already written about their possible use, in particular for making a large floor flowerpot that will decorate the room. To make it you need a base.
Sections with bark - material for country crafts
We have bazaars on New Year's Eve, where you can see and also buy handmade goods. So this kind of picture is not uncommon. The prices are high because this is an individual work of masters.
I observed such work in another place, I even took a couple of photographs in which the tool is visible, you can see them in this article about knightly wooden castles from wood cuts, chaga, and corks, follow the link. These castles really impressed me.
On the right is a photo of an ancient fortification made from tinder fungus. I even thought then that this could very well be an idea for a small small business, because the person who sold his crafts did exclusively that and nothing else. He has his own small shop. And he does everything very quickly.
Here is a cross section or cut of a birch tree, along with bark and birch bark. Human figures, Christmas trees, a house - everything was cut, naturally, not by hand, but with a special electric jigsaw.
The cut can be of different thicknesses, but for such a product it is better to take a slightly thicker one, then the folding toy will turn out to be more voluminous.
The bark of the tree does not interfere at all, but on the contrary gives a special charm to the products. Now there is a trend - the less processing, the better. A longitudinal cut of a wooden surface is good for crafts such as Christmas trees. The needles look very natural.
The product in the next photo very schematically depicts people, a goat, and a sheep.
Which tinder fungi can be eaten
There are many varieties of tinder fungi. They are divided into inedible, conditionally edible, medicinal and edible.
The following varieties can be used for preparation:
- Sulfur yellow. It belongs to the category of conditionally edible, since only young specimens that do not have dark spots can be eaten.
- Scaly. Used in medicine, dried, pickled and added to sauces and soups. This species grows primarily on elms.
- Liverwort. It grows on oak trees, young mushrooms are pickled or pickled.
- Umbrella. Resembling large bouquets, this variety of mushrooms is popular in China as a main dish.
- Winter. Grows on the trunks of alder, birch or willow. The pulp is suitable for consumption.
- Sheep. The only variety that is similar in appearance to a “normal” mushroom. Used as a basis for water and alcohol infusions. It can also be dried, pickled or salted.
Scaly tinder fungus can be dried, pickled and added to sauces and first courses
Important! Before going into the forest, you need to carefully study photographs of tinder fungi so as not to confuse an edible species with a poisonous one.
DIY chaga crafts
Baby Jesus immediately after birth. The figures are made separately, but the carved chaga serves as the place where Christ is believed to have been born among the shepherds and sheep.
The dark brown velvety background of the cave sets off the light wood figures very well. It is quite possible to cut out small animals - chickens, dogs, cats, and then place them in a stylized house - the kids will play with pleasure.
These are the photos of crafts made from wood slices that I managed to spy and photograph.
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