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G'day Everyone,

Here is a 24 x 32 Plait Stockwhip I completed recently. 24 strands in the thong and 32 strands in the handle. Colours are saddle tan and whisky.

Pete

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Nice work Pete. The patterns in your braids amaze me. Buck

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How do you do that???

That is a beautiful piece of art!

Is the black design painted on?

Joel

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Thanks everyone.

Joel, the two colours are from two separate kangaroo hides that I cut it all out from. In this whip it was a saddle tan and a black hide (oops, just realized I said whisky in my first post).

I pencil in my patterns on a grid and then write down what each strand has to do when you are plaiting it. For eg if a saddle tan strand is the next one to be plaited, i will follow the sequence I have written down for it to go through the 16 black strands. The sequence might look like

U2 O2 U3 O1 U4 O2 U2

I will have all these written down before I start plaiting (For a 32 strand handle there are over 400 sequences). I then organise with my wife to look after our boys for the day, make sure I've got nothing happening the next day (so I can sleep in!) and away I go.

I'll see if I can post a picture of a pattern I've drawn up when I get a chance.

Hope that helps.

Pete

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That's funny...that's the same way I notate how to tie different turkshead knots in my small notebook...

I probably need to start working on plaiting different patterns once I get a little better with the turkshead knots.

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Sublime work, simply stunning!

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Actually two different colored hides!

Now I am more impressed!

I would love to see your braid maps.

So on a 32 strand handle there are over 400 sequences!

You must be a genius to figure all that out.

My hats off to you Sir.

Joel

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