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Posted by Mirjam Bruck-Cohen on August 8, 2007, 11:38 pm
After you have more than 7-9 threads it might be adviseable , not to
start your braid with one knot , but nake a small chain [ even with
finger , thread each thread on oe separate cahin , by this you
braiding will get flatter from start.
>Good morning Dora
> the one booklet `s which name i can`t recall exactly was Braiding &
>?????? published by Dover ,, try and have a look through their
>publications.
>Braiding is in a way Mini weaving , hence in many weaving books you
>find how to finnish the hanging ends of warp and they show ideas how
>to braid them ..
>"Fun with String Figures"is about a kind of braiding that does notstay
>, but it teaches you how the ups and dows of strings go By W.w. Rouse
>Ball, Dover 1971.
>Weaving without a Loom By Sarita R Rainey, davis publications , No
>date,
>Is about other kinds of weaving , and is also about looking at threads
>and how they combine ...
>I think there was ad lately in one of the mags either piecework or
>fiberart about a whole books with braids maybe you look up in
>Interweave publications mirjam
>
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