Finger braiding

I'm in the middle of making Medieval/Renaissance style costumes for an upcoming SCA event. A few years ago I had made my husband a shirt with ties to close the wrists and neck. He's kind of hard on his clothes however (being a rapier fighter will do that), and the wrist cuffs needed repair. Part of the repair meant that I needed to make new laces. I do this by making a very basic finger loop braid. I learned the skill through a Compleat Anachronist publication, which you can find reproduced…

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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.

Working from Tak V Bowes Departed : From left to right: A Lace Bend Round (#25), A Broad Lace of 5 Loops (#1), A Broad Lace Chevron (#29),...

This is intended as a record for me - what I've been taught, figured out or stumbled across so far when playing with fingerloop braiding. When braiding a round string from five loops, the empty finger goes through loops three and two and takes the top thread of loop one. To split the cord, take the…

How to Fingerweave Something: Fingerweaving was the original method used to weave ceintures fléchées, or Assomption sashes, but you could use it to make scarves, belts, bookmarks, bracelets, guitar straps ... anything you want! These instructions are for the basic technique only…

I don’t recall who first taught me to make this 4-strand braid. All I know is that I already knew how to make it when I went to learn to weave in Potosi. When I had finished my pieces on the …

*Finger braiding

Many (many *many*) moons ago, I went to a stitching convention and showed off my one and only amazingly cool craft trick: a finger woven box...

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…

Finger loop braiding tutorial for 3-loop braids and more - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. Photo and text tutorial for making the easiest and fastest type of finger loop braids. These are great-looking and fast to make. Can be used for friendship bracelets, cordage, shoelaces, ribbons. Also tips for starting the braid with no loose ends at the top of the braid--and an optional loop/ buttonhole at one end. These braids can be taught to children as…

One of my most favorite crafts in elementary school was friendship bracelets. One of the easiest and quickest is the finger weaving kind.

New video tutorial on finger loop braided cord! I love making cord by hand for my medieval dresses. But I always seem to make it in one color, and this time I thought I'd make things more interesting! I used 5 different colors to track how the plaiting technique actually looks in the final cord. And I filmed a tutorial on it, so check the youtubes!

These photos represent a weekend of finger loop braiding with the expert, Ingrid Crickmore. This was the collection of work that I produced and was willing to show. Some of them didn't make the photo. And I do wish that I would have taken photos of some of the stuff that others made. There were 11 willing students in a home in Redwood City, CA for two days learning multiple variations on this most amazing ancient technique. Some braids were done with 5 or 7 loops, some with even numbers of…

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…

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…

A no-equipment technique for braiding cords and bands