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A no-equipment technique for braiding cords and bands

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Tag Archives: friendship bracelet

finger loop braided beading

Braids and Beads

Tips and ideas for using beads with loop braids. Finger loop braiding allows for some beading strategies that aren’t possible with kumihimo or other braiding techniques…

May 13, 2014 in Beading with loop braids, Original braids, Tips.
3-loop fingerloop braid of bicolor loops. Variegated rayon, and cotton embroidery floss (doubled). loopbraider.com

Easy 3-loop braids

This is a photo-tutorial in PDF form on 3-loop braids that I made last year for another site. It includes instructions for 3 very different-looking variations of 3-loop braids. You can scroll through the tutorial, or download it as a free pdf file. Extra info, including videos and suggestions for materials are below the photo-tutorial. Enjoy!

August 2, 2012 in Braiding materials, Color patterns, Easy braids, Knots, Starts & finishes, Tutorial, video.
7-loop fingerloop braid, "Doug's Braid", loopbraider.com

Video for Doug’s braid

Here’s a video to go with my tutorial—a few posts ago—for Douglas Grant’s Round Spanish Braid of 7 loops. I love this braid! The video also demos a new color pattern for the braid…

July 12, 2012 in Color patterns, Original braids, Readers' gallery, Spanish braids, video.

Bracelet with chevrons

Here’s a friendship bracelet video tutorial that also shows how to make my favorite type of color pattern for a square braid: chevrons across bicolor stripes. The bracelet tutorial teaches an easy way to make a lo-tech adjustable closure if your bracelet has a loop at one end. This can be used for any bracelet…

June 5, 2012 in Color patterns, Knots, Starts & finishes, Tips, Tutorial, video.

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Braids 2012 and Braids 2016 Conference Proceedings books are shown below. Let me know if any links are broken - Braiders Hand (U.S.), and the Braid SocietyBraid Society (UK) occasionally change the urls for their products.
Threads That Move: Conference proceedings of BRAIDS 2012

Includes my 12-page article on all the double braid variations. See table of contents here.

Braids, Bands, and Beyond: Conference Proceedings of BRAIDS 2016

Includes my article on Pick-up Patterning in Loop Braiding

My article in Threads That Move is on the many variations of loop braided 'double braids,' including several not covered in this blog, with some practical how-to information.

My article in Braids, Bands and Beyond is on pick-up patterning in loop braiding, including historical references and photos. Not a 'how-to.'

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Header photo braids:
The braids in my header photo are described here. Some are traditional, some are original, and some are a little of both. I have tutorials on this blog for four of them, as well as for many braids not shown in the header photo.
10-loop double braid

flat 10-loop double braid with "change-twice" color-linking

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Links to other braiding sites

  • L-MBRIC – Masako Kinoshita's site on loop braiding (partially moved to a new site, full move not yet completed)
  • My index to L-MBRIC, & how to access all LMBRIC's old issues thru the Internet Archive's "Wayback Machine")
  • Fingerloop Braiding (fingerloop.org)–15th-17th C braids
  • Fingerloop Braids–Cindy Myers' pages on Medieval braids
  • Barleycorn/ Grene Dorge fingerloop braid, Morgan Donner's video tutorial
  • Maarten-Jan's tutorial: 16-strand sling braid, different color-pattern.
  • Laverne's tutorials for two 24-strand Andean sling braids
  • Japanese braiding (kumihimo) – history, current practice
  • Kumihimo braiding overview
  • The Braid Society, U.K. – braids and other narrow-work
  • WeaversHand – galleries of various braiding techniques
  • Braids and Bands, discussion group sponsored by the Braid Society (anyone can join the group, Braid Society membership not required)
  • Phiala's Stringpage – interesting & obscure textile techniques
  • BraidersHand – books and supplies, kumihimo stands (u.s.a.)
  • FingerTips, Gary Mitchell's loop braid pattern-planners
  • kumihimo masters braiding (video links)
  • Jean Leader's tutorial for a 16-strand sling braid (spiral pattern)
  • Kumihimo with Loops
  • Jean Leader's tutorial for a "two-strand braid" – easy and pretty
  • Giovanna Imperia Designs –Wire and other unusual braiding materials.
  • Carol James' site – sprang and fingerweaving
  • Michael Hattori's youtube kumihimo tutorials

Videos

  • My youtube loop braiding channel

Textile crafts links

  • Backstrap Weaving
  • The Loomy Bin
  • Son's popkes
  • Domblog
  • Inkle weaving: ASpinnerWeaver
  • Chinese knotting
  • Medieval Silkwerk of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Centuries
  • Marion – Jewels in Fiber
  • Stitches and Sewings for Bookbinding (free pdf doc)
  • Jean Leader's lace (and more) site
  • Robyn Spady's Blog: weaving and more – design, info, inspiration
  • Sarah Goslee's STRING NOTES blog
  • Textile History book: Women's Work: the First 20,000 Years
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