{"id":1146,"date":"2024-02-17T12:33:43","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T17:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/?p=1146"},"modified":"2024-02-17T12:33:43","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T17:33:43","slug":"double-hira-braid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/double-hira-braid\/","title":{"rendered":"Double-Hira Braid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So, if you remember my posting from about a year ago<\/a>, sometimes I experiment with 8-strand braids that I have never tried a 16-strand “doubling” of. I was really happy with my doubling of the yatsu-se gumi<\/em>, but for some reason I never thought to try a doubling of the 8-strand version of the shige-uchi<\/em> braid (which is not really a shigeuchi <\/em>at all) until now. Here is the pattern for the 8-strand braid:<\/p>\n\n\n

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If you expand the setup to 16 strands (with 8 groups of 2 instead of just 4 groups of 2) but keep the asymmetrical first move, the braid open up what would have been a naiki gumi <\/em>round hollow braid into a wide, flat braid with a single layer plain weave,<\/p>\n\n\n

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16-strand flat braid in black and gold silk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

I suppose this should be called the hira ju-roku gumi <\/em>or “flat 16″ braid. The width of this braid varies due to variations in tension, but it averages about 5\/8” (about 15mm) wide, which is very wide for a marudai braid. Mine came out very loose, but that may have been a function of the marudai I was using. For a braid this wide, I really should have used a marudai with a deeper “well” and a wider hole in the middle of the mirror. Anyway, the looseness makes this braid very soft and flexible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, if you remember my posting from about a year ago, sometimes I experiment with 8-strand braids that I have never tried a 16-strand “doubling” of. I was really happy with my doubling of the yatsu-se gumi, but for some reason I never thought to try a doubling of the 8-strand version of the shige-uchi […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,6,94,135,3,5],"tags":[607,693,95,121,205],"class_list":["post-1146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-braiding","category-japanese","category-kumihimo","category-largesse","category-projects","category-sca","tag-16-strand","tag-braid","tag-kumihimo","tag-medallion-cord","tag-silk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146","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=1146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1147,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions\/1147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}