Fantastic!

Can you post a tutorial?

 

Fantastic!

Can you post a tutorial?

Here you go (pic heavy):

Measure out two squares with a thin tab.


Fold the tab.

Glue along the tab. I use a dab of wood glue and spread it with my finger.

Glue together to form a tube.

Flatten it out.

Fold the sides on both sides.

Fold the sides inward.

I don't draw lines on, I just mark with my fingernail. Mark the line for what will be the bottom of the bag.

Fold it back and forth.

Fold in the corners at roughly 45° angles until they look like this:



Glue the tab over

Fold the bottom of the bag back and forth to crease it and et voilà

 

I only put this up for fun. Lol. I'm in on my own tonight, so I'll do a tutorial.

 

That is... so very random. But very nice - are you going to do a bag lady for it as well?

 

The three or four I made are unfortunately handing from the wrists of a couple of Monster High dolls and a Barbie...

 

Very nice shopping bag. Paper bags didn't have handles, where shopping bags did have handles and were a lot bigger. Paper bags like I stated came in several sizes small medium and large. Another thing about shopping bags is they are made out of a thicker paper compared to regular grocery store paper bags. Most shopping bags I saw back then had a round twisted handle all though some did have flat handles

 

You nailed the Trader Joe's bag, dude!

 

This is the style of bag you get with takeaway food where I'm at. Dunno about the rest of the UK.

 

They are pretty common here in Sweden too, but mostly with logos printed on them.

 

LOL! That is what boredom does... The bags turned out great though.

 

:applause

Way to go.

 

Be sure to make the handle just too small to get all four fingers in
Great work there, I imagine you could print a template out and add logos etc too

 

Now you need to make Eric Morecambe! Wahey!

CHEERS!

 

Handles are simple. Just work out what thickness/length you want. You can glue in string if you want different ones.



Again, 45° folds

Just glue them on.

 

Thanks for the great tutorial!

 

Thanks!!!

 

I tried that method also a few years ago but could not get the consistency by eyeball and measuring.

I also tried using thin brown paper (from smaller bags of course) and running them through a laser printer to put some marker lines for folding.
That worked to an extent, but the grain would not always line up well in the final product.

Next, I just printed a brown shade on plain copier paper using a laser printer and ended up with what I thought was a reasonable result. The inside is white, but from the outside, they look pretty good.
I suppose it is also possible to print brown on the inside as well, but that seemed to be too much work at the time.

Here is the pattern that I uploaded a while back:
http://www.onesixthwarriors.com/forum/printables/216197-paper-shopping-bag-organic-grocery.html

I should have also posted a photograph of the result.

- Ivan.

 

One other method if you really need to work with brown paper is to make a wooden block of the right size to use for forming the bag. I tried that also, but I could never get the creases quite as nice as I could with the printer paper.

I wish I knew where that wooden block ended up.

Another thing that helps a little with realism is to use "corrugated" shears to cut the top edge. It leaves a slight pattern that is not quite in scale for the edge but looks better than a plain even cut.

Someone should move this thread to the proper area where it can be found later. Otherwise it will get drowned by all the other traffic in the general area.

- Ivan.