Somebody just requested instructions for a two-person team of braiders to braid a ten-loop letterbraid, and Joy Boutrup has agreed to let me share her instructions for the Nun’s Book 10-loop …| Loop Braiding
The conference was pure delight. (Except for the news about its uncertain future – more on that below). I loved the location, I saw so many old friends and met new ones, I learned so much, an…| Loop Braiding
‘Couvert’ braids and other tubular loop braids that can be braided around a pre-existing core (or not)! At Braids 2025 I’ll be teaching a 15th C. method, and a very different and …| Loop Braiding
I'll be teaching a two-day class at the next International Braids Conference, June 2025, where there will also be a full cornucopia of other braiding and narrowware classes! Registration just opened, but classes do fill up sooner than you might think. This conference is only every 3 years or so. It probably won't be in the U.S. again for a while. The last time it was in the U.S. was 2016 - it took place in Japan and Denmark the last two times.| Loop Braiding
Two different types of beater-stands for loop braiding extra-long braids are shown in images from Japan, Egypt, and Bulgaria on Masako Kinoshita's old online journal L-MBRIC (plus an eyewitness report from Morocco)!| Loop Braiding
A track-plan diagram is both a cross-section view of a braid’s shape, and also a road map of how the strands interlace. Aside from looking cool, they can be useful even if you don't totally "get" them. Even a little familiarity with them can help you better understand what you're braiding.| Loop Braiding