Glue Wine Corks To Wall

The corks will be spaced to allow dirt water to pass through.

Glue wine corks to wall.

Standard glues don t hold to cork while epoxy and hot glue tend to eat through it. Cork can be a particularly difficult material to work with especially if you haven t tried to bond it to another material before. My first thought was to hot glue but that has no flexibility and the corks would probably pop loose very quickly. Three products however do adhere cork to other surfaces quite well and any will work as long as both surfaces are dry.

Use hot glue to join corks together as needed and to attach them to the wall or plywood. You can also use contact cement which should be applied to both the corks and the substrate. For larger projects like heavy wall art or projects that need to be waterproofed like wine cork coasters you should use glue that bonds well to multiple surfaces. So the adhesive should be strong enough to withstand the daily treading without the benefit of the support of other corks packed closely together.

When it comes to state pride we re all about the northwest here at brit hq. Michelle a vineyard based in woodinville washington asked us to team up with them to create artwork out of repurposed wine corks. To use dot the glue on one of your materials and firmly hold the two materials together for a few seconds. Unlike some cork birdhouses made from decorating an already made wood house with corks this birdhouse is made and shaped with 100 wine corks.

We fired up our laser cutter to create state templates for washington and california and got to work with our hot glue gun.