Gaucho Bracelet

[HorsehairBraider]

Very nice. Can you tell us how you do the horsehair and keep it from unraveling while braiding your buttons? As far as that goes, while braiding the horeshair too. I have had people ask in the past if I braid horehair but have never tried.

Hi Joe - I don't want to derail this nice thread about Gaucho braids so I'll just keep it very brief.

I tie knots in the end of the bundles! I use a needle but one end of the hairs is loose and it *will* come unraveled if I am not careful. I can't just stop in the middle of tying a knot. Also I have to be careful because unlike leather, where each piece stays separate, all the hairs crowd together so you can't tell which hair is in which bundle and where it is going. So I can't use those "quick start" methods for example, where you lay a whole bunch of passes together before starting an interweave. It just turns into one big mass of hair and you can't tell if you should go over it or under it.

I did a pictorial step by step (it's not meant to be instructions - there are lots of better writers out there, people should get instructions from them) so you can see - Braided horsehair bracelet one step at a time.