9 Strand Flat Braid

[carr52]

Great tutorial. Thank you. I tried it out and thanks to your pics it was much easier for me. Is there a formula or a rule of thumb for the length of lace you need to acheive a given length for the finished braid?

Tom

[Timothy]

Glad this helped.

Carr52,

For length of lacing I use the finished length I want times 1.5. This usually gives plenty of leftover for terminal turks heads leaving tassels hanging, etc. For simple braids I usually wind up cutting off several inches, but I'd rather have too much than not enough. I'd be interested to see how others figure this too.

Timothy

[MatthewD]

Here is the pdf version of the tutorial. I hope that you don't mind Tim that I put into a PDF9_strand_flat_braid_tutorial.pdf

9_strand_flat_braid_tutorial.pdf

[McJeep]

Take strand #6 from your right hand and cross it to the left over #4 so that it becomes the inside string in your left hand.

Hmmmmm, complete newbie here so please bear with :0)

Should this not read "to the left under #4" ??? Like I said, I'm a complete newb at this stuff and saving everything I read at this point so if I'm not understanding lemme know LOL

edited to add: muchos gracias for taking the time to post this - this type of tutorial helps clear some of the smoke and mirrors aspect of things like braiding for me :0)

Edited November 24, 2008 by McJeep

[Timothy]

Sorry I haven't kept up with this post. McJeep is correct.

I'll fix it if I can figure out how to edit posts.

Tim

[KnotHead]

Here's a pdf file of the braid.

Nice work Tim. Very nice work.

Brian...

9strandflatbraid_Herringbone.pdf

9strandflatbraid_Herringbone.pdf

[Rayban]

Tim, you know those bolo ties??? they are usually some sort of round braid....I have lots of leather lace I would like to make sumpin with....figure maybe lanyards, etc. but I don't know how.....can you help??

Thanks!!

[Timothy]

I don't think I can edit a post this old. If a moderater sees this, please edit to read: "Take strand #6 from your right hand and cross it to the left under #4 so that it becomes the inside string in your left hand."

Thanks to MatthewD and Knothead for making this available in pdf format.

Rayban, I've never done a bolo tie, but i personally would use a simple 4 strand round braid. Maybe with a pineapple knot instead of a big silver slide? I haven't been braiding lately but have a knife that I could put a wrist lanyard on for a tutorial if this would help.

[Rayban]

Rayban, I've never done a bolo tie, but i personally would use a simple 4 strand round braid. Maybe with a pineapple knot instead of a big silver slide? I haven't been braiding lately but have a knife that I could put a wrist lanyard on for a tutorial if this would help.

YES!!. that would help...let's do r.

[Timothy]

Rayban,

Sorry I haven't got it done. I promise I'll get to it. I have a couple of things to finish first.

Tim