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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A Lark's Head Knot

So you want to get started braiding or have recently started and wondered how to best secure your braid without having to cut a ton of it...

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