What Type Of Braiding Is This?

[GrampaJoel]

Can anyone here tell me what this type of braiding is called and/or know where I can learn to do it (I don't mean the buttons.) ? ---->> see here.

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Thanks

Joel

Edited June 5, 2012 by GrampaJoel

[dirtclod]

looks like a flat piece with the lighter piece laced through it to me.

[KnotHead]

Looks to me like the braider took a strap and punched some holes in it about 1/4 inch apart and folded the strap like a map is folded and then sent a off color piece of rounded leather through the wholes one fold at a time. Kind of like the way the old slit braiding. But done on a flat piece of strap.

Brian...

Edited June 6, 2012 by KnotHead

[PL01]

I'm not a braider but I think it's a 5 strand braid, middle (lighter colour) strand just goes up and down as you alternate the other four.

Some of the other braider's can explain it better

I don't have any lace to try it one, so I used some wax thread, it looks close enough to me

[Spinner]

I think PLO1 has it. If you look at the far left of the photo at the end of the strap right before the button you can see 3 distinct highlighted edges in the black. A single piece of leather wouldn't cast that many.

[GrampaJoel]

Spinner I think PLO1 has it.

If you look at the far left of the photo at the end of the strap right before the button you can see 3 distinct highlighted edges in the black. A single piece of leather wouldn't cast that many

I think you are correct Spinner. Nice Job PLO1 !! I suspected it was something like that. But with all the brains here I neglected to use my own.