I recently lay again the hospital and my neighbor in the ward turned out to be Glory - a sociable and smiling peasant. He asked the nurse to give him not the necessary droppers. "What for?" - She asked in surprise and could not understand for a long time, what he wants to do with them.
This art originated in the depths of hospitals in the USSR. It is now in hospitals not such strict rules, and then from the hospital home was released with creak. Medicine was not as well developed, and in hospitals lay for a long time, without leaving the limits of the medical institution. Glory, for example, in the modern hospital lay for almost a month.
This art is characteristic of the fact that for the crafts are used exclusively those materials that can be found in hospital hospital. As with the construction of ancient wooden houses, created without a single nail, when creating matchmaking houses that are collected without the help of glue, it is not used in neither glue, no thread or other foreign materials. Power Quest: Collect a beautiful and useful cracker, stepping only in the hospital. In case, in the process of making toys, strangers for the hospital materials are used, this handicraft is considered, as they say, Halturoy, fake and not work of the present master, do not work.
What is done
I have already seen such crafts, there were a lot of such toys in the cabins of bus drivers, as well as in all kinds of government departments, stores, above the desktops, but no one in their hands gave them: "break"! Therefore, it was seemed to admire them only from afar, but now I saw the soul of them as she was flying.
All of the various details of droppers are wooped. The tubes are bend, twisted, cut along, across and spiral (as it is done here for "Visulki"). Other details are on the eyes, decorations and different parts of the body. Feds are also made from dropper tubes, those that are thickening, flowing them with scissors.
Color palette
The fish meant to make gold. To do this, it was necessary to paint, again, with the help of hospital funds - before the dropper is cut, skip in its iodine tubes. However, when attempting to find iodine in the hospital, the master was waiting for disappointment - the iodine in the hospital is no longer used. Most likely, instead of iodine, something else is used. There was no different color droppers in the USSR, and for the color variety they had to paint. Basically, in addition to the golden, you can paint in green and purple, which uses greencondes and furcines.
The restriction of the set of used color is caused by the fact that in order for the paint to stick to the walls of the dropper, it is necessary that it is diluted with alcohol. Therefore, the diverse palette can be diluted with paints from color handles, squeezing them from the rod and dilute in alcohol. Alcohol and handles are also not difficult to find in the same hospital, most of all have been allowed to do the handle with many color rods, earlier such were very popular in the USSR.
Multicolored droppers from droppers can be mad in one toy.
One day, Glory tried to use manganese for these purposes, and instead of alcohol wanted to dilute her in Kerosene, and he got into the burn branch of another hospital.
Related difficulties of forgotten art
After the manufacture of fins, they need to be screwed. For this, the collected design is entirely immersed in boiling water. Glory just put the fish in his mug and poured with boiling water from the kettle. From the first time it did not work out, and I had to curl several times.
One of the most vigorous in the manufacture of elements is the suspension. For its manufacture, the tube is cut across the spiral, while it should be done not to cut at all that the Master did not always have, and several attempts and spoiled tubes took it.
This is the second fish that Glory, managed to abscess, progressing the time of finding on treatment. The first toy was given to the nurse as a spider for the supplied droppers. That was very young, so I saw such things for the first time, and there was no limit to her surprise from the gift.
From drip toys you can make hell, fish, braids for rods (cool handles are obtained) and other figures, and the most rare and complex craft type is jellyfish. They say, it turns out very beautiful, though, I myself never seen them, and it didn't work out on the Internet.
It was quite unusual to meet a live master on such crafts. Glory came to the hospital due to injury: he worked as a courier for the delivery of pizza, and one of the customers broke his jaw because of the delay.
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