Video-based tutorial on my workaround method for braiding the 17th Century Nun’s Book letterbraid of 10 loops as a solo braider. I learned the traditional method from Noémi Speiser and Joy Bo…| Loop Braiding
Tips on braiding as a team – the traditional way to make what I call “double braids” — ten-loop braids that are twice as big and complex as a square braid. Yet all you and y…| Loop Braiding
Bicolor loops are loops made out of two colors, tied or linked together. They can create very different braid patterns than the patterns you can get from single-color loops. Tutorial and tips for u…| Loop Braiding
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
Why waste two of our ten fingers? Use thumbs to make even bigger and better braids! This was done historically in (at least) China and Finland, as well as by my first loop braiding teacher here in …| 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
Two double braids from the 17th C with a wonderful "unorthodox" loop exchange method that goes back to the 12th Century, if not further. This exchange move is so easy to do with REALLY cool results! It produces unusual loop braids that may be unique to Europe. Videos for my solo braider method, illustration for the traditional team braiding method.| Loop Braiding
4-loop to 10-loop Spiral braids - whether spiral-patterned or not - as well as the smallest possible loop braid: the Two-loop Braid. I made these video tutorials years ago to accompany a series of text-and-photo tutorials for another website. Those photo-tutorials are now available here too, you can download them as PDF files straight from this post...| 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
Two alternative fingerloop braiding methods for making the 2,500-year-old, 15-loop fingerloop braid known as "HallTex 301." This braid artifact is one of the amazing textile finds from the famous Hallstatt Salt Mines in the Austrian Alps! 2 videos, one demoing a "Palms-up" method and the other a "Palms-down" method.| Loop Braiding
A tutorial for a non-traditional 12-loop braid with an unusual number of loop-transfers: Five! You might call it a Double-and-a-bit-more Braid. The video tutorial is for my solo-braider method. Also text instructions for an easier "odd" braid - the 7-loop Square-and-a-half braid of 3 loop transfers - for the left braider of a team making the larger 12-loop braid. (The smaller braid has some fun asymmetrical color-patterns of its own!)| Loop Braiding
