Multi Strand Finger Loop Braiding: In this Instructable, I'm going to teach you how to make Finger Loop Braids. With this technique you can make braids with just your hands that have 10 or more strands each. They can be used for anything. Bracelets, chokers, belts, hat bands, as trim…
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A no-equipment technique for braiding cords and bands
Finger loop braiding with coiled wire.
missjoss on Instagram: A fun way to make a medieval braid. If you make a really long one I recommend bribing a friend to help tightening it with a finger if…
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An alternative method for braiding the 15th C. eight-loop braids known as Lace Dawns (or Daunce) and Lace Piole. It is a faster method, with no doubled loops on any fingers. (Requires using the thumb of only one hand, so might be a good intro to 9-loop square braids.)
Ten flat braid color patterns for 6-loop braids! Six-loop braids can have some great color-patterns that are only possible with an even number of loops. + Tips for braiding neater-looking flat braid patterns...
A tutorial for a non-traditional 12-loop braid with an unusual number of loop-transfers: Five! You might call it a Double-and-a-bit-more Braid. The video tutorial is for my solo-braider method. Also text instructions for an easier "odd" braid - the 7-loop Square-and-a-half braid of 3 loop transfers - for the left braider of a team making…
Why waste two of our ten fingers? Use thumbs to make even bigger and better braids! This was done historically in (at least) China and Finland, as well as by my first loop braiding teacher here in the U.S.
伊賀くみひもの始まりは古く、奈良時代以前にまで遡ると言われています。平安時代には唐組（からくみ）の平緒、経巻、華篭（けこ）、幡飾（はたかざり）等の仏具、神具等に凝った紐が用いられるようになりました。武士階級の時代になると甲冑や刀剣の紐が多く生産されるようになり、武具類を中心とするくみひも文化が生まれました。廃刀令...
Better version of my previous videos on this braid. Learn the 7-loop square braid first--spanish braids have twice as many loop transfers as square braids. B...
Despite what you may have heard, when fingerloop braiding, you really can put your loops down and take breaks!
4-loop to 10-loop Spiral braids - whether spiral-patterned or not - as well as the smallest possible loop braid: the Two-loop Braid. I made these video tutorials years ago to accompany a series of text-and-photo tutorials for another website. Those photo-tutorials are now available here too, you can download them as PDF files straight from…
My second tutorial on “double braids”! Here I show you how to braid a flat, ribbonlike double braid, twice as wide as the rectangular braid of my earlier tutorial, but made almost the same way. The tall braid photo located somewhere in my right sidebar is of a 10-loop flat double braid, made with color-linking…
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…
5- loop square and flat braids are easy to learn, and make great-looking cords and bands. For an even easier intro, try my new tutorial for 3-loop braids. After 5-loop braids, move on to 7 loop braids for bigger braids and even more color-patterns!
This braid is an unusual variation of a 7-loop spanish braid, with intricate color-patterns and a shape that is firmly rounded rather than rectangular in cross-section. Invented or discovered by Douglas Grant, a reader of this blog, who allowed me to share it here. (Thanks, Doug!) [A more recent post has the video for this…
An intricate and unusual 7-loop braid ---the word for braid was spelled some funny ways in the 17th C. manuscripts--- is the basis of the 14-loop alphabet braid. Joy Boutrup described this 7-loop braid in her recent groundbreaking analysis of the 17th C. letter braids. The braid was referred to as "spanish" in the original…
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