{"id":936,"date":"2022-05-23T20:43:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T01:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/?p=936"},"modified":"2022-05-23T13:08:42","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T18:08:42","slug":"but-what-do-you-use-it-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/but-what-do-you-use-it-for\/","title":{"rendered":"But what do you use it for?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Most of the braiding I do is either for practice or for making medallion cords. People are always asking me at SCA events what historical Japanese used kumihimo for. Here is a list of things I know about, but I am sure there are more:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Armor construction and attachments<\/li><li><em>Sageo <\/em>and suspension cords for swords<\/li><li>Suspension and fastening cords for banners and scrolls<\/li><li>Garment embellishments such as: <ul><li><em>kotsuyu <\/em>(little knots) on <em>hitatare<\/em><\/li><li><em>sodetsyu <\/em>(sleeve cords) on <em>hitatare<\/em>, <em>suikan<\/em>, or <em>kariginu<\/em><\/li><li><em>tasuke<\/em> cords for tying sleeves back<\/li><li><em>munahimo <\/em>(chest ties) on <em>hitatare<\/em><\/li><li><em>hirao <\/em>sash on <em>sokutai sugata <\/em>[early <em>hirao <\/em>were wide <em>karakumi<\/em>]<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Fastening cords for hats such as <em>kanmuri <\/em>and <em>tate eboshi<\/em><\/li><li>Cords for <em>manmaku <\/em>(indoor curtains)<\/li><li>Cords for boxes small {<em>bako<\/em>} and large {<em>karabitsu<\/em>}<\/li><li>Cords for marking pottery before firing [the grandparent]<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I should probably write up that outline as a research paper with pictures. Let&#8217;s see how long that takes me. Probably at least ten years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the braiding I do is either for practice or for making medallion cords. People are always asking me at SCA events what historical Japanese used kumihimo for. Here is a list of things I know about, but I am sure there are more: Armor construction and attachments Sageo and suspension cords for swords [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,6,92,5],"tags":[95,593,594],"class_list":["post-936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-braiding","category-japanese","category-misc","category-sca","tag-kumihimo","tag-practicality","tag-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936","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=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":937,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions\/937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}