When choosing a bed for your pet, it is important to pay attention to quality and environmental friendliness of the material , from which it is made. Our beds, carriers and houses for cats and dogs woven from wear-resistant willow wicker and coated with hypoallergenic varnish, so they are easy to clean and will last a long time. The soft mattress cover is made of high-quality canvas (37% cotton and 63% jute), easily removable for washing. All materials are made in Russia.
With our wicker beds you will feel as comfortable and cozy as for a pet, and his owners. Woven from wicker, the bed creates a feeling of closeness to nature and will fit perfectly into any interior. A soft mattress or board filled with high-quality struttofiber and a removable canvas cover will ensure a sound sleep.
Hermitage cats.
The Hermitage cats are known to everyone today. Four-legged guardians have become one of the main brands of St. Petersburg and today it is difficult to imagine the main museum of the city without them. Cats appeared within the walls of the palace 270 years ago by order of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna. Their main goal was to catch mice.
Today, 50 cats live within the walls of the Hermitage. Members of the royal family truly live like royalty: food and care are provided to them by the Hermitage staff. Each cat has its own passport and is officially listed as a qualified specialist in cleaning museum basements from rats.
Cats can move freely around the Hermitage, but they are not allowed to enter the museum halls. The network of basements itself (almost two dozen kilometers) where cats live and hunt is called the “big cat basement.” Comfortable living conditions have been created for cats - the basements are always dry and warm, all rooms are equipped with small passages, allowing them freedom of movement.
Each cat has his own bowl and basket for sleeping. A basket or bed made of wicker is the personal sleeping place of every “mustachioed hunter.”
Woven from natural willow rod, beds with soft fabric inserts have a positive effect on the health of not only “royal” cats, but also the most ordinary domestic cats. Environmental friendliness is one of the priority qualities that our company focuses on. We use natural vines grown on our own plantations located in the northwestern region. The products themselves are woven by hand by real enthusiasts of their craft in the vicinity of St. Petersburg.
“Hermitage cats”, under the name of Baltic Vine LLC, offers your pets its products from the banks of the Neva, presented in pet supply stores of the Beethoven chain.
* The calculations use average data for Russia
30,000 ₽
Minimum start-up capital
1 month
Payback
40%
Profitability
220,000 ₽
Gross profit per month
It is believed that humanity learned wicker weaving earlier than pottery. IN different countries, including ours, baskets, furniture, fences, cart or sleigh bodies, roofs and even entire houses were woven from willow twigs.
Previously, wicker weaving was not a commercial art, since almost any villager could make the desired product for personal consumption, but now that wicker products (mainly baskets and furniture) have found a “second life,” the situation has changed.
Weaving wicker baskets is a promising area of your own business
The awakened interest in decorative wicker items makes them a very promising area for business.
First, you should either find a willow forest large enough in area, or, if the area of your land plot allows, sow your own plantation.
To do this in the spring, immediately after the snow melts, the required number of willow cuttings should be planted at a distance of about half a meter from each other. They are simply stuck into the ground for about? lengths at an angle of 45°. The seedlings are fertilized with a small amount of superphosphates; however, you can do without this, since abundantly fertilized willow produces shoots that are too thick and unsuitable for weaving.
With this method of cultivation, long, even branches up to 2 m long are obtained, growing in a bushy manner. With proper care, such a plantation will last about 15 years.
The blanks are cut either in May (before flowering) or in August (when the shoots grow long enough). Almost all, with the exception of about a dozen, shoots are cut off. The bark is immediately removed from them and left to dry for about a week, but not in the sun, but in the shade.
The simplest is to weave small rectangular baskets for cats. No special tools are required for this: just a pruner, a knife, wooden slats for templates and a drill for drilling holes in them.
In addition, if the basket will be woven with wire (plain copper or colored telephone wire - to improve the design), you will also need wire cutters and pliers; and if the finished product is varnished, painted or painted - a set of brushes.
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To weave a rectangular basket, a special template is made - two slats with through holes drilled in them. The slats are installed at the required distance opposite each other, and the required number of prepared shoots for the bottom of the basket is inserted into the holes.
The bottom of the basket is woven in a simple transverse way - that is, another rod is inserted across the resulting lattice, passing above and below each crossbar.
Each of the longitudinal and transverse sticks should be on both sides of the long side of the rectangle formed by the bottom of the basket to its intended height. When the bottom is ready, the protruding twigs are folded up - and they become the frame for the walls of the basket.
The walls are formed by the same simple view weaving as the bottom. From about the middle of the height, the base for the future handle is woven into the selected sides. When the weaving reaches the edge, the handle, located, naturally, perpendicular to the weaving of the wall, appears to consist of two parts - relatively speaking, left and right. They are connected together and fixed either with wire or twine, or with pre-prepared willow bark (bast).
The side (or, as it is called, the shoulder) of the basket is woven in two rows - to give greater rigidity.
Despite the somewhat confusing description, an experienced wicker weaver makes approximately one basket per hour.
Basket production costs
Material costs (excluding premises) are as follows:
Superphosphate fertilizer - 40 rub. per 1 kg, with an application rate of 50 g per 1 sq. m.
Secateurs - 215.10 rub.
Stationery knife - 108.26 rubles.
Planed lath 18x40x3000 mm - 43 rub. for 1 piece
Drill - 4735 rub.
Set of drills - 209.21 rub.
The finished basket is equipped (optional) with a small bedding (RUB 397). Selling price - no less than 950 rubles (without bedding).
As you can see, with a production rate of 8 baskets per day, about 200 baskets per month are obtained per worker, or, if you count the cheapest products, at least 190,000 rubles. Material costs are reimbursed in the first month.
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If we consider baskets painted, varnished or with decorative elements made of wire, colored threads, or a combination of all of the above, then their production requires approximately 20-25% more time than ordinary ones.
Thus, the production rate per day will be approximately 6 baskets per day. But their selling price increases at least one and a half times with practically unchanged almost zero cost. Counting 1500 rubles. for a decorative basket, we get a gross profit of about 220,000 rubles. per month from one employee, or net profit of about 200,000 per month.
Cats are quite strange creatures. On the one hand, they are very attached to their owner and love to lie close to the owner, but on the other hand, they are quite independent pets, which is reflected in their frequent search for secluded places to rest. good sleep. Thus, owners often find their pets in closets, boxes, baskets, and even on closed suitcases with unpacked items after a recent trip.
If you want to take care of your pet, then you can make a secluded corner for him with your own hands, in which he will feel safe. At the same time, you can do without huge financial expenses, because you can assemble a home for a cat only from old newspapers.
There is a lot of information on the Internet on the topic: how to weave a house for a cat from newspaper tubes. However, it is most often incomplete and displays only the final result. But don’t be upset, because making such a basket is quite simple.
What you will need
Every person in apartment building I have my own mailbox, which contains new advertisements and newspapers almost every day. After reading, they move to closets or to balconies. It is this waste paper that will be needed to make the base - the tubes from which the cat's home will be assembled.
In order to form tubes, and subsequently assemble them into a full-fledged house, the following will also be useful:
- Pencil.
- Ruler.
- Scissors.
- Knitting needle.
- PVA glue or pencil.
- Thick cardboard.
Having collected all the necessary ingredients in a pile, you can get to work.
How to make tubes from newspaper
Before you begin, newspaper sheets must be unrolled and cut into equal strips, each 10 cm wide. One standard newspaper can produce from 4 to 6 tubes - it all depends on which side (wide or narrow) the strips will be cut from.
After this, you need to take one strip of paper and attach the knitting needle to it at an angle of 45-60 degrees relative to the narrow side.
Next, you need to tightly press the newspaper strip onto the knitting needle. Before wrapping the end, it must be lubricated with glue to ensure fixation and prevent the tube from unwinding. After these manipulations, you can remove the needle, and the tube is ready.
