{"id":340,"date":"2020-01-06T08:53:20","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T13:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/?p=340"},"modified":"2020-01-06T14:06:26","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T19:06:26","slug":"first-braid-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/first-braid-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"First Braid of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve made a resolution to start doing more 16-tama braids. I have been braiding for more than 10 years, and even though 8-tama braids are still fun to do, I should show some discipline and exert some real effort. This one is a good start because this pattern (Creative Kumihimo 16D) only has four steps, and you only move eight of the tama during each iteration. This gives the braid a nice twill structure and (if you set up the colors just right) this nice alternating zig-zag ring appearance. It may look round, but the shape of the braid is actually more octagonal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/proj\/images\/braid2020010501.jpg\" alt=\"16-tama braid in red and white silk\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"\/><figcaption>16-tama braid in red and white silk<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, this braid is in \u00c6thelmearc colors and has medallion-cord fittings. It will go to the Kingdom at some point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve made a resolution to start doing more 16-tama braids. I have been braiding for more than 10 years, and even though 8-tama braids are still fun to do, I should show some discipline and exert some real effort. This one is a good start because this pattern (Creative Kumihimo 16D) only has four steps, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,6,94,135,3,5],"tags":[136,95,121,137,138],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-braiding","category-japanese","category-kumihimo","category-largesse","category-projects","category-sca","tag-16-tama","tag-kumihimo","tag-medallion-cord","tag-red","tag-white"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","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=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}