Mexican Round Braid Tutorial

[Chief31794]

A couple of folks asked if I would do a video on Round Braid AKA Mexican Basket Weave. I created the videos and posted them on YouTube. Part 1-4. This concentrates on:

Starting the lacing.

Going around Corners

Splicing in new Lace

Closing the lace

The videos themselves are pretty bad, spent too much time between the project and the camera but I think it's better than last time and as I said, I got a couple of PMs and some folks on Youtube that wanted me to produce this set as I said I would in the first series on Double Loop Stitch. the four videos are:

Round Braid Part I

Round Braid Part II

Round Braid Part III

Round Braid Part IV

Thanks,

Ken

[Northmount]

Good work Ken. I think there will be a number of people happy to see this tutorial. I think I'm about to try Mexican Round Braid on a project soon.

These videos are far from bad. Your video shooting has improved since the first set. Better lighting and contrast. When you have to take the project off the stitching pony (or don't want to use such a prop to force you to stay in the frame) try setting up a wire frame that will be just outside your camera frame. Then you will have a reference to help you stay in the frame.

For a couple training videos I was involved in about 20 years ago, we decided not to spend a lot of time building a fancy script. Funds were in short supply. So we did 2 shoots. The first one, I walked through performing the 'operation' and describing what I was doing. Then we walked through again, using the first one as a script, got lighting and camera angles setup and did the second shoot (recording the plant background sounds, but no narration). Then they used a professional reader for voice over and cleaned up the video editing. You might be able to do something similar so you can narrate without having to struggle with the lacing at the same time. Describe what you are doing as you shoot, then go back and replace the sound with your new polished narration.

You are picking up this video stuff quite quickly. Your previous experience with photography is probably a big help. Keep up the good work Ken. I much prefer seeing videos with narration that tells what a person is doing, rather than a loud or distracting music track.

And for those of you that missed it before, here is a link to Ken's previous video Lacing Tips.

CTG

[Bluesman]

Thanks Ken, I need all the instruction i can get. great job.

[Chief31794]

Thanks Ken, I need all the instruction i can get. great job.

Thanks Bluesman, I appreciate the encouragement.

Ken

[Chief31794]

Good work Ken. I think there will be a number of people happy to see this tutorial. I think I'm about to try Mexican Round Braid on a project soon.

These videos are far from bad. Your video shooting has improved since the first set. Better lighting and contrast. When you have to take the project off the stitching pony (or don't want to use such a prop to force you to stay in the frame) try setting up a wire frame that will be just outside your camera frame. Then you will have a reference to help you stay in the frame.

For a couple training videos I was involved in about 20 years ago, we decided not to spend a lot of time building a fancy script. Funds were in short supply. So we did 2 shoots. The first one, I walked through performing the 'operation' and describing what I was doing. Then we walked through again, using the first one as a script, got lighting and camera angles setup and did the second shoot (recording the plant background sounds, but no narration). Then they used a professional reader for voice over and cleaned up the video editing. You might be able to do something similar so you can narrate without having to struggle with the lacing at the same time. Describe what you are doing as you shoot, then go back and replace the sound with your new polished narration.

You are picking up this video stuff quite quickly. Your previous experience with photography is probably a big help. Keep up the good work Ken. I much prefer seeing videos with narration that tells what a person is doing, rather than a loud or distracting music track.

And for those of you that missed it before, here is a link to Ken's previous video Lacing Tips.

Thanks Northmount,

I used your tips from the last time to work on this one. They helped. I hope someone gets something out of this, if it helps one person learn to do this lacing technique then that's good.

Ken

CTG

[colescarvings]

1. this is awesome, it just so happens that i have to do this on a roper wallet and i've never done it before and had no clue how. Thank you soooooooooo much Ken!
   

[Chief31794]

1. this is awesome, it just so happens that i have to do this on a roper wallet and i've never done it before and had no clue how. Thank you soooooooooo much Ken!
   

No Problem, glad it helped.

Chief

[colescarvings]

i tried for the first time the double loop lacing...............only to find out that there is a right side and wrong side to start on. naturally i started on the wrong side

oh well, it still looks really good.

today i'm going to try another trucker wallet and use your tutorial to do it,. when i get it right i'll start on the custom roper wallet. it's my first from scratch wallet.

[colescarvings]

GAH!!! Ken, you removed your videos?? HELP!!! I didn't get to do the lacing yet. just starting it today and the videos are gone!! Please put them back?

[Northmount]

A couple of folks asked if I would do a video on Round Braid AKA Mexican Basket Weave. I created the videos and posted them on YouTube. Part 1-4.

Hey Chief, where did the videos go?

Tom