{"id":967,"date":"2022-10-03T05:28:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T10:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/?p=967"},"modified":"2022-09-27T17:35:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T22:35:00","slug":"more-16-tama-braided-cords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/more-16-tama-braided-cords\/","title":{"rendered":"More 16-Tama Braided Cords"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I recently finished up the sixth in a series of braids that will be used as cords for award medallions. Basically, they are necklaces from which you can hang a pendant. They all have ring-and-toggle closures made from aluminum jump rings.<\/p>\n\n\n

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6 Black-and-Gold Baronial Medallion Cords<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Most notably, the leftmost braid in the image is of a pattern that I have never braided before. One of the 8-tama braids in Jacqui Carey’s book Creative Kumihimo<\/strong> that is not<\/strong> expanded into a 16-tama braid later is 8J, the Yatsu Sen <\/em>pattern that is also used for the Yatsu Rai<\/em> braid.

This made me wonder what the double-8J braid would be like. So, borrowing the mechanic used to expand 8F (Edo Yatsu<\/em>) into 16T (Keiruko no Himo<\/em>) to wit –<\/p>\n\n\n

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This creates a lovely braid with smooth 4-ridge rounded faces, and flat edges. I still have to sit down and work out the colorway grid for this braid, but I think my first try is quite attractive.

There’s a few different ways I think I can work a double-8J braid, so I will have to keep working on these double-8J patterns until I feel like I have them all figured out.
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I recently finished up the sixth in a series of braids that will be used as cords for award medallions. Basically, they are necklaces from which you can hang a pendant. They all have ring-and-toggle closures made from aluminum jump rings. Most notably, the leftmost braid in the image is of a pattern that I […]<\/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":[136,534,95,121],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-braiding","category-japanese","category-kumihimo","category-largesse","category-projects","category-sca","tag-16-tama","tag-baronial","tag-kumihimo","tag-medallion-cord"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967","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=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":968,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions\/968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ee0r.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}