{"id":1266,"date":"2024-11-06T23:56:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T04:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/?p=1266"},"modified":"2024-11-06T23:56:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T04:56:00","slug":"fifth-takadai-braid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/fifth-takadai-braid\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifth Takadai Braid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This braid has been on the <em>takadai<\/em> for about six months. I have not been working on it constantly, of course, but still. It is a double-layer double-twill braid that used both the upper and lower arms, so it is essentially two braids stitched together at the edges. Even If I had been braiding at full speed, it still would have taken me twice as long as a single-layer braid, but I had so many other things to take care of and so many other braids to do. <\/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-takadai-20241106.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/proj\/images\/braid-takadai-20241106.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:512px\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The final braid is about a yard long and a little more than a half-inch wide. It&#8217;s all in silk lace-weight yarn and there are 52 (!) elements with 3 ends of yarn per element. There are plenty of errors in the braid. You can probably see a few in the photo. I&#8217;m still happy with it. It was a great learning experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This braid has been on the takadai for about six months. I have not been working on it constantly, of course, but still. It is a double-layer double-twill braid that used both the upper and lower arms, so it is essentially two braids stitched together at the edges. Even If I had been braiding at [&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":[760,95,205,620,638],"class_list":["post-1266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-braiding","category-japanese","category-kumihimo","category-projects","tag-double-layer","tag-kumihimo","tag-silk","tag-takadai","tag-twill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266","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=1266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1267,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions\/1267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}