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Jacqui Carey
Search Press
March 2011/ ISBN 1844486524
How-To Books/Braiding
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Reviewed
by Rachel A Hyde
Braids have
a vast number of uses from trimming clothing and accessories to
soft furnishings and even greetings cards. You can buy them commercially
of course, but how much better to make your own and have exactly
what you want for the task in hand.
This is a title in what I think of as Search Press’ “200
Series” where that number of questions, stitches or whatever
is explained. I live not far from this author and it was she who
started me off on my own braiding adventure some years ago so you
are in safe and sagacious hands. My braids are made using a marudai
as are many in here, but there are many other ways to make them.
These include the type of “knitting nancy” or dolly
bobbin you might have had as a child to lucets, lace pillows, looms
and even your own hands. All of these and more are covered with
plenty of staged photographs and lots of inspiring examples to make.
Maybe this all sounds daunting but I can assure you it is not; if
you can plait hair or made a long woolly tube on a spool knitter
as a child then you can see how easy it can be, and a lot of fun.
When you have learned the basics of how to make the type of braid
you need the second half of the book is filled with pages of inspiring
braids and lists of the materials you need to make them. If you
live in the UK there is a list of suppliers but you will soon discover
that braids can be made of just about anything including yarns,
floss, strings of beads and even thinner braids. This is a very
user-friendly and useful book.
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