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Six Years!?!?!?
Wow, it's been six years since I've updated my blog. Well depression sucks. I've been on a treatment plan for the last decade but I'd...
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Tension Experiment Part 1
Six months since my last blog update, sorry for taking so long life sometimes takes interesting turns. I’m a member of a reenactment...
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How can You make such long braids?
With a little device called a footbeater from Japan. Essentially a beater that can rotate vertically and activated by pulling a cord...
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Nearing the End of the Known Moves; How to perform moves F and G.
Hopefully this post won't be too long, but I warn you it will be a bit picture heavy. The good news is that this is the second to last...
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The Chevron SCOT Pattern
In my last post I talked about S & Z pickups which are the backbone of Japanese SCOT braids no matter the loop braiding method....
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S & Z Pickups. Those are Weaving Terms?!? Right!?!
Well, this is a post that I thought I wouldn't get to until I at least did the video for handlooping moves. But this has been an area of...
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Overtwist or Linking?
So why do you call Linking "Overtwist"? I do so to make reading about loopbraiding clearer and to separate two different "Linking" moves...
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Basic Open and Closed Fingerlooping Moves
Well, I seem to be on a roll of posting things in reverse order as I was sure that I had already covered fingerlooping's basic moves. So...
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What do all these letters mean?
In my last post I covered the color and move pattern for the double faced kikko braid in Masako’s Study of Archaic Braiding Techniques in...
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Color Layout of a DF Kikko Braid (Now w/ corrected pattern)
I'm back again. This time with something a little more advanced. A double faced kikko braid requiring four braiders. Normally I would...
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Apathy, Delays, and...Woodworking?
I have to apologize for the lack of posts recently; I had been aiming for at least once a week. I recently graduated with my Masters in...
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Making a set of 'Extra Hands' for Loop Braiding
"If loop braiding is so cool and faster, supposedly, than kumihimo, then why don't more people do it?" Well, that's because loop braiding...
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Timed experiments: Finger loop vs Marudai
Well, three data points don't make a trend but hopefully it gives hope for future data points. This last Saturday I was at an event...
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The last week and some experiments
So, over the last week, I've been making some videos for my YouTube channel. And I've been working on some braiding experiments. 'Mmmmm,...
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Leader cord, Useful but is it historical
Leader cord, it's what I call the loop that connects the braid to the anchor (or counterweight for marudai), and I’m sure that there are...
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Tools for Kute-Uchi, a short history.
In reality loop braiding only needs one tool, something to beat the braid into shape. Most cultures used the assistance of a second...
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'Kumihimo', Where did the word come from?
Earlier I mentioned that the word 'Kumihimo' was modern, a search through Japanese archives, including the National Diet Library* in both...
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Kumihimo or Kute-Uchi at Reenactments
I’m a member of a reenactment group, the Society for Creative Anachronism or SCA. As a group, we’re not a full reenactment group in that...
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What is Kute-Uchi and where did the name come from?
This post is a twofer, what is kute-uchi and how Japanese loop braiding got its modern name. 'Modern name, I thought you said it was...
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What is Kumihimo
Kumihimo, a type of Japanese braiding that came to mean all types of Japanese braiding then a shorthand for braiding on a Madurai and...
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