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.
OChris Laning clan...@igc.org - Davis, California
+ http://paternoster-row.org - http://paternosters.blogspot.com
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