Thanks Chris. How very interesting! I haven't done plastic cording weaving since I was in Brownies lo those many, many, many years ago. ;>) I didn't know it still existed, much less had a name. It was just what you put your latchkey on when you went to school. Thanks for the url. I've bookmarked it for future reference.
However, that wasn't what I was referring to when I mentioned doing lucet work on your fingers instead of a lucet tool. I have a lady in my camp who uses her thumb and forefinger exactly most people would use a two prong lucet tool. She produces very lovely lucet cord without needing anything but whatever string or ribbon she wants to make the cord out of. I'll see if I can find a picture of her doing it and post it. Ginni / Gwenhwyfaer >>> Chris Laning <clan...@igc.org> 10/14/10 11:38 AM >>> On Oct 14, 2010, at 11:07 AM, Rachael Watcher wrote: > Humm, fascinating. I never used one of the tools shown for finger > braiding > work. Just stuffed a loop into the existing loop then tightened. > Rinse and > repeat. I think I know what you're talking about -- is it this? http://www.boondoggleman.com/prj_butterfly_stitch.htm I'm happy to discover the term "butterfly stitch" for this, BTW, because I've never known what to call it. The problem here is that there are certainly many techniques that involve loops, and fingers, and produce a braid, that can be done without tools. Some -- but not all of them -- are what is now being called "fingerloop braiding" here. This is a technical term that was invented in the late 20th century to label a particular set of techniques like what Ginni was describing, involving loops held on the fingers (or if you're Japanese, across the palms of your hands) and passed through each other without tightening. I've seen butterfly stitch called "fingerloop braiding," and it's kind of problematic, because it does involve fingers, loops and braiding. But it isn't really "fingerloop braiding" in the technical sense. http://fingerloop.org has lots of material on what's now being called "fingerloop braiding." ____________________________________________________________ O Chris Laning <clan...@igc.org> - Davis, California + http://paternoster-row.org - http://paternosters.blogspot.com ____________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This communication with its contents may contain confidential and/or legally privileged information. It is solely for the use of the intended recipient(s). Unauthorized interception, review, use or disclosure is prohibited and may violate applicable laws including the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and destroy all copies of the communication. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
