Braiding technique

This includes plaiting, use of a lucet, finger knitting, etc to produce neat cords from a spun fibre.

Basic braids and more complicated plaits can be found at: http://www.stringpage.com/old/braids.html http://www.stringpage.com/old/coolbraid.html http://www.stringpage.com/old/fingerloop.html

A lucet is a two pronged inplement that makes some forms of finger knitting much easier. It produces square profiled cords that are quite neat and nifty, and VERY tough (perfect for armour points), but use up a lot of string to produce. Instructions (including how to make 2 colour and beaded cords) http://www.stringpage.com/old/lucet.html

Other forms of braiding include

• Sprang http://www.stringpage.com/old/sprang.html
• Kumihimo