{"id":1311,"date":"2025-01-13T07:40:52","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T12:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/?p=1311"},"modified":"2025-01-13T14:30:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T19:30:46","slug":"hemp-sankakudai-braid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/hemp-sankakudai-braid\/","title":{"rendered":"Hemp Sankakudai Braid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I was making a simple drawstring bag out of some surplus fabric, and found myself in need of a reliable drawstring. I had previously purchased some hemp beading cord with which to experiment, so this seemed like “the opportune moment”.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Sankakudai 5-set in Hemp<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

I measured out a “quadruple length” to start with. Typically, I clamp my warping posts<\/a> to this chest of drawers I have in my studio. If I use the full width of the chest, a “single length” is about 52 inches. If I use all three pegs, a quadruple length (approx 17 feet) is pretty simple to measure out, but sometimes is not easy to transfer to the braiding stand. It went OK this time.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Close-up on the braid<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Since the hemp cord is stiff, I used my heaviest tama<\/em> to make a nice tight braid. With only one color in the braid, it looks just like a “3-set” braid, but it really does have 5 strands. With these simple sankakudai<\/em> braids the structure all looks the same unless you have more colors<\/a> worked in the braid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It took me a while to work through all of this material, but I wound up with plenty of hemp cord for all my drawstring needs, about 12 feet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was making a simple drawstring bag out of some surplus fabric, and found myself in need of a reliable drawstring. I had previously purchased some hemp beading cord with which to experiment, so this seemed like “the opportune moment”. I measured out a “quadruple length” to start with. Typically, I clamp my warping posts […]<\/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":[772,771,95,722],"class_list":["post-1311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-braiding","category-japanese","category-kumihimo","category-projects","tag-5-set","tag-hemp","tag-kumihimo","tag-sankakudai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311","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=1311"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1314,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions\/1314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}