Round Braid To Flat And Back, Adding Strands

[Sovran81]

I misread the size portion. Apologies. However having just measured a recent project of 4 strand, these are the figures I got. Strand width 6/32, finished braid diameter .172" As you can see the strand width is 1/16 wider than yours and the finished diameter is well under 1/4" You might want to do a couple inches of 6 strand braid and measure it to test. I think you might have room for 2 more strands that are narrower than mine and keep it under 1/4" . I am only suggesting this to help keep it simple and reduce the chance of added/dropped strands from coming loose in a finished product.

Now I do split my strands to .8mm, if yours are much thicker it may not work.

[Tracym]

I have made six strand braids, I have some here. But these show leads need to be really thin, the 6-strand are too thick for this application. Thank you for all the suggestions though.

[bucksnort]

Tracy, Yeah it would be the same as a round pineapple only worked flat. That's the beauty of the pineapple, or turksheads in general no matter the interweave, is that they can take on almost any shape. I think if you closed it in around the round braid on each end it would stay in place. Anyway, you have a good variety of ideas. Good luck & let us know how it turns out. Buck

[Tracym]

I will post it when completed - may be a little while though. That is an interesting idea, the flat pineapple. I think it would be fine closed up, as you say, and it's easy enough to anchor the ends of the strands to a braid anyway.

[troy]

Not sure if this will help or not, but made a pdf of braiding a dog coller - flat, round to flat braid - a few years ago -

http://www.mtn-m.co.uk/web%20components/whips/dog%20collar.pdf

Edited March 23, 2014 by troy

[leatheroo]

I would start with 6 strands and do the 4 round braid using 2 of the strands as a core, then when you need to do the flat braid you will have 6 strands to make a wider flat braid.

[Tracym]

I understand the idea - but anything involving 6 strands is going to be too thick for the round braid. And I probably need 8 strands for the flat part, but I will experiment.

Of course, I don't have the check yet for the project - so we'll see if it actually occurs.