Japanese Style

[8thsinner]

We have started playing with japanese braiding styles and came up with this cute little item.

This is just the bracelet version, we have a necklace finished and also a dog lead that were waiting for hardware to finish. only it's done in thick 2mm.

In the japanese way this is very basic but I think it works really well.

[Suze]

nicely done --

I have wanted to play around with some round leather cord - but just havent got to it yet.

what books are you useing?

and did you know about the yahoo kumihimo group? I've gotten lots of good ideas from there.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kumi2/

[8thsinner]

I had no idea there was a yahoo group, We aren't using any books as of yet, although there are lots of patterns in ABOK for the style.

I had the idea originally since I bought my first silk braided sageo. And this pattern is probably the most well known and easiest to do but like I said it was a test.

Thanks for the suggestions though

[Suze]

you're welcome

and welcome to another addicting hobby

[Somawas]

Which ABOK number? Looks like simple 6 or 8 strand round crowning to me, but that's a guess.

[8thsinner]

I don't know the abok number or if this one is even in ABOK but he has loads of complicated ones that we will try soon.

This one is like crowning but it's crowning in two parts

The routine is thus

two strands in each quadrant

and it goes

top right down to bottom right

bottom left to top left

rotate 90 CCW

repeat.

It is really easy to do easy not to get lost

but like all braiding it's reliant on tension and a little makes a big difference on this style.