Leather Bracelet And Horsehair

[RobertB]

I have a bit of a building problem and am asking for any advise or ideas anybody might have. I made a bracelet for my wife as a birthday present as I was finishing it she asked if I could add some horsehair from her good ranch horse of 20 years that we had to put down last summer. I said I would try but am having trouble coming up with how to add something. I had made the bracelet (which is kangaroo 8 plait square 1/6" stands doubled over) to just fit and I do not have the extra length to add knots that circumferences the plaiting and still fit. I thought about lacing the two together but do not have a fid small enough to work under the strings. I am at a lose on doing this and think I will make another bracelet to add the horsehair. Any thoughts or ideas on how to do this in any form, I would appreciate.

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[KnotHead]

Yep. I'd go with making another one myself.

Brian...

[RobertB]

I think that is what I will do, but how would you incorporate the hair. I thought kind of like a nose button but have not worked with horsehair enough to know the capabilities of it. I have never braided it or tried to tie the knots. Just some hitching.

Thanks for the response Brian

[KnotHead]

I've never messed with horse hair at that level either. I've only used horse hair as kind of like tassels at the end of a set of stampede strings. I think we should wait to see if someone that has more experience in horse hair will post.

Brian...

[bucksnort]

Not experienced with horse hair either, but what about a small bangle on the order of a shoofly? Buck

[zopi69]

Plait the horsehair in some neat pattern and plait the bracelet around it, but leave windows or somesuch to where the horsehair is visible...much like the western belts you see with plaited horsehair between two layers of leather, and windows to reveal the hair plait...