Dwing8

Look at the pictures I attached and you can see what I mean.

Beautiful work! You surely know what you are doing, can I ask a favor? Take a look at my post on hobbles and tell me what I'm doing wrong....I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks, Dano

Thanks for the reply! I did just as you said, I started in the middle and did the 8 plait but where I began it all doesn't look anything like the way it ends. It looks like the picture. I tried to unbraid it one strand at a time until it matched and I got lucky but I can't do that again if I tried it seems. I like the picture you attached, that's exactly what I'm trying to do. Maybe I'm starting it off all wrong? I lay the 8 strands flat on my table and clamp a straight edge to hold them down. I have started the braiding with crossing over the 4 strands ( 3 4 5 & 6) like in the book and just going ahead and starting with #1 on the far left and going behind then U2O2 and neither way comes out matching the end. Thanks again for the reply! Dano

I'm on page 351....don't know if I'm right or not but I went back to the beginning of the 8 strand braid and unbraided it until it matched the end of the braid and started the 16 strand part. It looks kind of bad in places and I'm sure that's because I let a few strands get out of place and they got crossed over. I'll back out to where I messed up and give it another go. I'll try to post a pic if I ever get it looking good. This is after all just a learning thing.... If anybody has a suggestion or their way of starting the 8 strand Plate 47 I'd be thankful! Thanks again for the replies! Dano

Looks like I got that sequence backwards when I added the ruh roh part. I meant to say U2O2U2.

Thanks for the reply! I've been driving myself crazy trying to figure out what was wrong and I saw it in my head a few minutes ago as I drove home from taking my wife to the airport. I started off the 8 strand braid by beginning in the middle as shown in the book but I found out in my head that I should just start off with the first left going behind U2O2U2 and the first right behind U2O2U2and running with that till I got the length I wanted. Now I'm tying the ends off and trying to join the 2 together because now they match. Wish me luck and thanks again for the reply, Dano Ruh Roh......when I tried to braid the sixteen strands together this way they came up looking all wrong. The strands on the L and R after I began going around the back and O2U2O2 left side first then the right side till I got all 16 strands braided and the strands were doubled side by side instead of 1over and 1 under .

Hi, I'm just getting started learning to braid so I bought Bruce Grant's Encyclopedia and have gone over a few examples. I am trying to do the hobbles on page 351 and I can't seem to get the part where I join the 2 eight strand braids into 1 sixteen strand braid in Fig. 3. The 'beginning" doesn't match the "end" so I can't get started on the sixteen strand part. I'm attaching 2 images so you can see what I mean. I can't seem to figure out how to braid in reverse. Any help will be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Dano

Sorry but I had to do this twice so I could add another picture......my files are too big and I'll figure out how to make them smaller later. This is the ending of the 8 strand braid. Thanks again, Dano

Hi, I'm new here and have really had a great time looking at other peoples work. This got me interested in learning to braid so I bought Bruce Grant's Encyclopedia and have been practicing a few things. I am at the present working on braided hobbles pg. 350 using some old line I had laying around because it's size helps me see it better. As instructed I started of with the 8 strand braid pg.126 Plate 47 and I'm having a hard time bringing the 2 ends together in fig.3 pg.351. The problem is the beginning end doesn't look anything like the ending end like it does in the book. I'm attaching 2 pics to show what it looks like and hoping for any advice.....I can't comprehend braiding backwards yet. Thanks! Dano