{"id":1521,"date":"2026-04-19T13:22:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T18:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/?p=1521"},"modified":"2026-04-19T13:22:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T18:22:20","slug":"rainbow-cotton-takadai-braid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/rainbow-cotton-takadai-braid\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow Cotton Takadai Braid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Started with 17 strands of cotton crochet cord in 9 different colors, 4 ends per strand about 116&#8243;. Had it on the\u00a0<em>takadai<\/em>\u00a0for about a month, working on it here and there, plain 1-1 interlacing. Finished it up this week while I have more free time. 76&#8243; between the bindings, roughly 7\/8&#8243; wide.<\/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-20260416.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/proj\/images\/braid-takadai-20260416.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:512px\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">17-strand Takadai Braid<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>I should do more braiding on the <em>takadai<\/em>. I did a bunch of braiding one morning, then the next day when I was getting dressed, I had a mysterious blister on my right index finger. I could not figure it out until I started braiding that day, and the beater sword bonked right up against the blister. Ow. Maybe I&#8217;ll get a <em>kumishi<\/em> callus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve already warped up the <em>takadai<\/em> for another braid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Started with 17 strands of cotton crochet cord in 9 different colors, 4 ends per strand about 116&#8243;. Had it on the\u00a0takadai\u00a0for about a month, working on it here and there, plain 1-1 interlacing. Finished it up this week while I have more free time. 76&#8243; between the bindings, roughly 7\/8&#8243; wide. I should do [&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":[693,95,744,620],"class_list":["post-1521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-braiding","category-japanese","category-kumihimo","category-projects","tag-braid","tag-kumihimo","tag-rainbow","tag-takadai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521","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=1521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1522,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions\/1522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}