{"id":718,"date":"2021-02-06T18:33:41","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T23:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/?p=718"},"modified":"2021-02-06T18:33:41","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T23:33:41","slug":"trio-of-triangular-braids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/trio-of-triangular-braids\/","title":{"rendered":"Trio of Triangular Braids"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Back in the Spring, I started teaching myself a new kumihimo<\/em> braiding pattern. It’s called the “Sankaku-kumi 1” braid. It is #116 in Makiko Tada’s Comprehensive Treatise on Braids: Marudai<\/strong>. It is a triangular braid with fifteen strands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most marudai<\/a> <\/em>braids have a number of strands that is divisible by four. Eight, sixteen, and 24-strand braids are the most common. Odd-stranded braids are uncommon. I’ve done a 9-strand braid and a 17-strand braid in the past, and I’d love to be able to run a workshop on odd braids. This one seemed like a good candidate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, I did the braid in some acrylic yarn I keep around for learning purposes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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First try at the sankaku <\/em>braid<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

It’s a pretty thick braid because I used two plies of yarn on each tama<\/em>. You can see that there are a number of errors in this braid. Most of them seem to be of the “doing the wrong step at the wrong time” kind. There are 9 white strands, and 6 red strands. They are separated into six positions around the marudai: RR WWW RR WWW RR WWW. Each iteration, you move one white strands from each group two positions clockwise, and one red strand from each group one position counter-clockwise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Second try at the sankaku <\/em>braid<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

For the second try, I used cotton crochet thread, and reversed the colors. I don’t think there are any visible errors in this braid. There are some structural twists in it, though, that keep it from being smooth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Third try at the sankaku<\/em> braid<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

For the third try, I went with lace-weight silk yarn. I got started on this, then it sat on the marudai <\/em>for at least six months. I got side-tracked onto other things and it stared at me accusingly for all that time like a one-eyed daruma<\/em> doll. For this try, I used back and gold threads for the 6 center strands, plus red and white threads for the 9 outer strands. I did not quite plan out the color pattern well enough, so you can see where two white strands come one after the other. There’s also a big error from when I got started on the braid again and did the wrong thing at the wrong time. I’ve hidden it in the photo, though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, this is a nice, fast braid when you don’t take a six month break in the middle of it. I’ll probably give it a rest for a bit, then do a fourth try to lock the pattern into my memory. Once I do that I can create my own instruction sheet and I’ll be ready to teach a class on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in the Spring, I started teaching myself a new kumihimo braiding pattern. It’s called the “Sankaku-kumi 1” braid. It is #116 in Makiko Tada’s Comprehensive Treatise on Braids: Marudai. It is a triangular braid with fifteen strands. Most marudai braids have a number of strands that is divisible by four. Eight, sixteen, and 24-strand […]<\/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":[426,428,147,342,95,427,205],"class_list":["post-718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-braiding","category-japanese","category-kumihimo","category-projects","tag-15-tama","tag-acrylic","tag-braiding","tag-cotton","tag-kumihimo","tag-marudai","tag-silk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718","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=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":719,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions\/719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}