possibly Civil War era braid making
having now had a crack at the braiding I saw at the weekend I wonder if it’s one of those things taht emerged independently in different parts of the world, it’s so simple I can’t see how it can’t have really. I made a disc from cardboard, cut a lot of slits round the side and made a hole roughly in the middle (very roughly!) Result is really rather impressive! Here’s the disc from the top - it’s very simple, 2 sets of threads, idealy in 2 contrasting colours.
Describing how to do it sounds really complicated so I’ve deleted that and I’ll try to photo-blog it over the weekend. It’s very vrey easy to do. here’s the braid as made by Aprilia after me showing her how to do it for less than 5 minutes (and that included the time it took to cut the threads!)
It took her about half an hour to make that much braid so it’s fast as well as easy. Perfect craft for small girls really!
She’s desperate for us to join a re enactment group now so she can sit with me in period dress making braid and play acting at being from a different time. Specifically she wants us all to join the Sealed Knot who only do Civil War stuff. Not sure on that one, it’s a lot of money to then need to travel up and down the country to sit in fields making braid!
would love to do re-enactment stuff. nealry tried to sign up for some stuff a few years ago, but chickened out!
Comment by Kirsty — August 30, 2007 @ 9:54 pm
i think it would be good fun!!
Comment by Helen — August 31, 2007 @ 2:45 pm
I rather like the look of it all too, was talking to K about Kentwell at castle day.
Comment by Jax — August 31, 2007 @ 6:48 pm