braided key chains ,a book mark, and another bracelet

[rawhide1]

Horsehairbraider

Thank You for your comments. You due great work with horsehair and ya must have a lot of patience to work with hair. That is tail hair. And I agree mane hair is so much nicer. Some folks I work with had a horse die so they hacked some tail off and brought it to me for a key fob. And another guy had some tail hair from a favorite horse that had died ten yrs ago. Well I told them that if another one dies to comb out the mane real nice before cutting. In my opinion there's nothing worse than trying to untangle a wad of hair and getting enough to work with. I'll have to see if they do. And thank ya for the offer of hair but we have 5 hay burners here at the house which provide enough for what i do. I do have a ? when I use hair to interweave knots I usually super glue all the hair together on one end. Is there a better way of doing this. Thanks Mike

[HorsehairBraider]

Hi Mike - Superglue! Wow, how space-age! :biggrin: I tie an overhand knot in one end (the end I am anchoring). And then I make sure the anchor goes under sufficient ends to be truly anchored - sometimes even working it back and forth a few times. I do NOT want to have to re-tie a knot because it came untied!

For the record, if I am going to BRAID hair, then I want tail hair. Mane hair is for tassels. In fact, I got so many people that wanted me to braid mane hair, I now charge $250.00 extra per piece! Up front! That took care of those requests! So please tell your friends they did right to save tail hair, if it was braiding they wanted.

[rawhide1]

Horsebraider they brought me the tail hair for tassels on the key fobs. Thanks again for the replies. Mike