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: Japanese Braiding: The Art of Kumihimo by Jacqui CareyThis is an example of how an author who is well versed in a subject can translate the details of creating a complex item into simple steps. After reading this book, I'm convinced that I could makes these lovely braids. Traditionally, they are done on a smooth wooden frame called a marudai. Instructions are included for outfitting a lamp shade frame with a cardboard mirror, and transforming empty film canisters into substitutes for the traditional wooden bobbins for those with a tentative interest. The only other materials you'll need can be improvised from things you'll find around the house. Simple diagrams illustrate the instructions.
JAPANESE BRADING: The Art of Kumihimo
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: Beads & Braids by Jacqui CareyMany of you have tried the Japanese braiding form, Kumihimo. The variety of possibilities with kumihimo are endless just using color and thread. The author of one of the better books on Kumihimo in English, "Creative Kumihimo" has just transcended the color/thread dimension and gone on to a new, previously unexplored area of braiding. After a basic overview of some of the standard braid moves, she introduces a series of bead embellishment techniques, each with a full page, color gallery of examples. She sews on beads, she braids with strands of beads, she drops beads down into the braid, she braids off pendants, etc., and she has some beaded braid endings that will delight even old braiders with their elegance. Beaders and braiders check out this book.
Beads & Braids by Jacqui Carey
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: Text is Japanese — Pictures and illustrations are excellent. A basic beginners book working with a notched board stand to create several different braids and useful and decorative objects.55 pages, softcover
Starting Kumihimo (Japanese Book)
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: Making Kumihimo: Japanese Interlaced Braids by Rodrick Owen.Most textile artists these days know about the precise multi-faceted braiding from Japan that comes under the word "kumihimo". The key to that branch covered by this new manual is the word in the subtitle, "interlaced". The small, marudai and kakudai, stool style of weighted, bobbin braiding has seen new books and nice equipment made available for study and practice over the past decade. We, Westerners, have not seen much, except in Japanese language, imported books, about the other styles of bobbin braiding: takedai and ayetakadai, made on a "bench" that looks more like loom. The finished braids are flat fabric-like structures that are familiar to those who have looked at the various interlacing techniques from around the world. As with the other styles of bobbin braiding, there are basic structure patterns, or moves, and then, there are color arrangement patterns. Rodrick Owen presents some amazingly clear diagrams of the structure and color patterns. If you have the weighted bobbins from working with your little marudai, the work bench for takedai, nice materials like the traditional stranded silk, and interest in advancing your personal repertoire of braiding skills, then this basic manual for takedai will enhance your study.
Making Kumihimo: Japanese Interlaced Braids
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: Creative Kumihimo by Jacqui CareyThe key word to this book is "creative." Clear presentation of the basic information for braiding leads the braider to a new "creative" development. Most books give the braider a structure and several color set-ups for braid variety. This author presents a braid structure not only in movement diagrams, but also a structure diagram that can be used to develop a color arrangement and the color set-up.This book focuses on braids using up to 16 bobbins (usually in multiples of four) in a multitude of variations. Many finishes, bead appliqué, and color gallery round out this important braiding book.
Creative Kumihimo by Jacqui Carey
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: DVD: KUMIHIMO: Japanese Braiding with Rodrick OwenKumihimo is a very versatile braiding technique. Rodrick begins by introducing you to yarns, tools and equipment, then reviewing the process for making a braiding stand (Maru Dai) from foamboard, which allows you to get started quickly with very little investment in equipment. You will learn how to read pattern layout diagrams as you prepare four separate warps, each with a different end treatment: tassel end, finger point (blunt) end, braided loop end, and wrapped loop end. You will learn how to read and follow braiding diagrams as you work four different braiding projects: 8-strand spiral braid, 8-strand square braid, 8-strand hollow braid, and 8-strand flat braid. Steaming and finishing techniques are also included. To give you ideas for the many ways braids can be used, Rodrick presents the work of many accomplished international braiders.
DVD: KUMIHIMO: Japanese Braiding with Rodrick Owen
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: VIDEO: KUMIHIMO: Japanese Braiding with Rodrick OwenKumihimo is a very versatile braiding technique. Rodrick begins by introducing you to yarns, tools and equipment, then reviewing the process for making a braiding stand (Maru Dai) from foamboard, which allows you to get started quickly with very little investment in equipment. You will learn how to read pattern layout diagrams as you prepare four separate warps, each with a different end treatment: tassel end, finger point (blunt) end, braided loop end, and wrapped loop end. You will learn how to read and follow braiding diagrams as you work four different braiding projects: 8-strand spiral braid, 8-strand square braid, 8-strand hollow braid, and 8-strand flat braid. Steaming and finishing techniques are also included. To give you ideas for the many ways braids can be used, Rodrick presents the work of many accomplished international braiders.
VIDEO: KUMIHIMO: Japanese Braiding with Rodrick Owen
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