Ideas On How To Plait Over This?

[8thsinner]

Any one got any ideas on how to plait the following shape in roo? And or over a piece of metal if it needs it to keep shape.

[roo4u]

I think there is a three sided braid in bruce grants encyclopedia...i will take a look

[8thsinner]

I couldn't work out what you meant by that at first, and think you might be thinking of his ridge braid styles.

but no this is the flat profile of a pendant, the loop will be coming in from the top of the triangle, following along the outer edge back to the top to join the loop.

The tricky thing I can't work out is how to braid over the middle bar without strands from it causing imbalance on the outer edges.

[roo4u]

oh ok...duh...are you wanting to cover just the three legs of the triangle and the crossbar?

[8thsinner]

yeah, thats pretty much it. It's for a gift, I will also be adding sterling silver wire braid inside the leather braid, but if I can get the leather braid looking neat the wire won't be a problem.

[SilverBear]

Just a guess but what if you did an 8 strand braid down each side to the cross bar split 4 from each side to do an 8 strand around the cross bar coming in from either side then use the 4 from the other side to finish the sides and at the bottom interlace your 8 strand braid like you would on a long splice?

The hardest part for me to think about is the middle bar I would wrap 4 strands all the way to the other side and work the other 4 through as in fid work.