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Working with the Kumihimo Plate
by None Redmond
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BRAID 2: A Zig Zag braid
Please choose two colours that harmonise together and cut about a yard of one and 4 lengths of a yard each of the other. Here two strands of the silk floss were used. The threads were folded in half in the middle, a key ring threaded through with the weight attached and the threads arranged on the plate as shown.
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The photo below is reminiscent of the Anda Gumi braid and it will be seen that the thread at the north on the left has been moved to the slot at the west and the threads on the left at the south has been moved across to the east. This has been done before.
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In fact you continue moving the threads as you did before in the Anda Gumi until after 10 moves you return to the starting place where both of the blue threads are on the left as seen below. This is where you start the zig zag.
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Please move the blue thread at the west down to the south on the left of the other threads as shown in this photo below..
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You then rotate the plate through 180 degrees so that it looks like this:
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and begin the process all over again.
When your blue threads return to their starting position and the plate looks as it does above, you once again turn it upside down. This makes the zig zag braid which is clearly just for fun.
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