{"id":1552,"date":"2026-08-10T16:26:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T21:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/?p=1552"},"modified":"2026-07-10T17:02:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T22:02:37","slug":"braids-for-a-pelican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/braids-for-a-pelican\/","title":{"rendered":"Braids for a Pelican"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A very good long-time friend of ours was inducted into the order of the Pelican at Pennsic, so I made these two braids for him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first is a 17-strand “Taka-on-Maru” braid I made to secure his samurai eboshi<\/a><\/em> (which I also made) to his head. This silk braid is about 80 inches long and about three quarters of an inch wide. I worked this twill marudai braid with 4 black strands and 13 white strands to approximate an ermine spot pattern. An erminois band is traditional for the “cap of maintenance” traditionally given to a Pelican.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The second is a 9-strand “Shigeuchi” braid that I made as a sageo<\/em> cord. This silk braid is almost 10 feet long, and almost a half inch wide. I worked this twill braid on a sankakudai<\/a><\/em>. A sageo<\/em> is normally used to bind the sheath of a sword into the waist-ties of the hakama<\/em>. While any braid of sufficient length can be used as a sageo<\/em>, this 9-strand braid in this 7+2 zig-zag pattern is the most common style of sageo<\/em> seen.<\/p>\n\n\n

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A very good long-time friend of ours was inducted into the order of the Pelican at Pennsic, so I made these two braids for him. The first is a 17-strand “Taka-on-Maru” braid I made to secure his samurai eboshi (which I also made) to his head. This silk braid is about 80 inches long and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,6,94,135,21,3,599,5],"tags":[115,95,890,427,722,90,737,205],"class_list":["post-1552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-braiding","category-japanese","category-kumihimo","category-largesse","category-pennsic","category-projects","category-regalia","category-sca","tag-gifts","tag-kumihimo","tag-larges","tag-marudai","tag-sankakudai","tag-sca","tag-shigeuchi","tag-silk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552","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=1552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1553,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions\/1553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}