{"id":1010,"date":"2023-01-08T13:55:46","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T18:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/?p=1010"},"modified":"2023-01-08T13:55:46","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T18:55:46","slug":"takadai-braid-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/takadai-braid-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Takadai Braid #2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A second braid made on the takadai. This one is a 33-tama 2\/2 twill braid made with four plies of reeled silk yarn per strand. 16 strands are rose pink, and 17 strands are scarlet. I started with twice the length of material as last time, and wound up with about 6 feet of braid.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/proj\/images\/braid-taka-20230106.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/proj\/images\/braid-taka-20230106.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Silk 2\/2 Twill Takadai Braid, ~2 yards<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Because I used reeled silk instead of plied silk yarn, the braid came out much smoother, flatter, and even than the first braid. The takdai does a lot of the work, of course, keeping the tension even and such, but I am really happy with this braid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A second braid made on the takadai. This one is a 33-tama 2\/2 twill braid made with four plies of reeled silk yarn per strand. 16 strands are rose pink, and 17 strands are scarlet. I started with twice the length of material as last time, and wound up with about 6 feet of braid. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,6,94,3],"tags":[95,205,620,638],"class_list":["post-1010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-braiding","category-japanese","category-kumihimo","category-projects","tag-kumihimo","tag-silk","tag-takadai","tag-twill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010\/revisions\/1011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}