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DIY bottle net: from a run-of-the-mill souvenir to a cool eye-catcher

10.12.2025

Translation: machine translated

A bottle of red wine/cream/prosecco is quick to buy and always makes a great last-minute gift. Would you still like your gift to have a little more personality? Then why not tie a beaded bottle sleeve?

There are many situations in which a so-called fine wine is given as a gift. Especially in December: the umpteenth dinner invitation, a drawn Secret Santa ticket, you know the drill. Now the contents of the bottle given are certainly delicious - but its presentation is usually a little bleak. A festively printed paper bag? A quickly tied ribbon? Give it a rest.

You'll make a much bigger impression with a home-made carrier net that can still be used even when the wine has long since flowed down the throat.

This is roughly how it should look in the end.
Source: Laura Scholz

To do this you need:

approx. 30 metres of ribbon (I used 2 mm polyester cord)
approx. 54 jewellery beads
Scissors
optionally a lighter
a drink of your choice

It really doesn't take much for this DIY.
Source: Pia Seidel

Craft beads

Rayher Seed beads, 2 mm ø, with silver intake, mixed, 17

Ropes

Meister Cord

50 m

Ropes

Ocean Yarn Seil OceanYarn 2 mm 50 m

50 m

Craft beads

Rayher Seed beads, 2 mm ø, with silver intake, mixed, 17

Ropes

Meister Cord

50 m

Ropes

Ocean Yarn Seil OceanYarn 2 mm 50 m

50 m

How to recreate it:

1st step: the preparation
Maybe, like me, you have a well-stocked craft drawer that you can help yourself to. If not, you'll need to invest in cord and beads. When buying, make sure that the eyelets on the beads are large enough to thread the cord through.

I cut 18 pieces of cord of 1.50 m each for my net. As I used grey and black cord, there were nine of one colour and nine of the other.

With about 20 cm of air at the top end, I always knotted two cords together in the first step, namely one black cord with one grey cord. I fixed the nine strands that were created in this way to a rod or my oven handle with adhesive tape. This way, they don't get completely mixed up when knotting.

The 18 individual sections become nine strands.
Source: Pia Seidel

2nd step: knot, thread, knot, repeat
From here, always knot the right cord from one strand with the left cord from the neighbouring strand. Pull on the bead, tie another knot underneath and continue with the next strand. This quickly creates a diamond-shaped net that you can continue as far down as you like.

In the beginning, it is practical to knot the net while hanging. Later you can remove it from the pole.
Source: Pia Seidel

To get an idea of the length, it helps to hold the wine or Prosecco bottle up to your net. Do you want the neck of the bottle to peek out at the top? Do you want the entire bottle to be covered from the outside? Simply measure how many meshes your net can take.

3rd step: the handle
Once your sleeve has reached the desired size, the upper, loose ends still need to be joined together to form a handle. To do this, I split them into two sections, folded them together in a bow shape and tied them with a gathering knot. A knot like this is child's play to make and foolproof - just a little difficult to explain in writing.

Divide the loose ends into two sections and bring them together at the top in a bow shape. Make a loop from the remaining cord.
Source: Laura Scholz

Basically, use the remaining three metres of cord to create a loop on your bow-shaped handle in spe and wrap it from the open end until all the loose cords are wrapped. Now bring the wrapping thread through the loop and pull it inwards from the upper, open end. Nothing understood? This YouTube tutorial will show you how in under two minutes.

Wrap all the cords around from the open end of the loop.
Source: Laura Scholz

In the last step, the wrapping thread is inserted through the loop and pulled inwards.
Source: Laura Scholz

4th step: the final knot
Once you have conjured up a bombproof wrapping knot handle for your net, everything else is a walk in the park. The only thing you have to do now is to tie a large knot in the lower loose ends of your sleeve. So that the bottle doesn't fall out at the bottom. This takes about ... two seconds.

Gather all the strings together and tie them into a large knot.
Source: Laura Scholz

You can trim the fringes dangling from the bottom of the knot to your desired length, add a final bead to each one or carefully keep them from fraying with a small flame from the lighter. The most beautiful way to give a simple bottle of wine as a gift is finished.