fingerloop braids!

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tora42 https://tora42.tumblr.com/post/640608902080282624/fingerloop-braids :

bomberqueen17 https://tmblr.co/mEi4sKUjTkzs4ila4vEdnuA​ mentioned fingerloop braids in her witcher fic “An Ideal Man”, https://archiveofourown.org/works/26847148/chapters/65502253 (keira/lambert and everyone is queer and no one is cis and it’s very sweet and lovely) and i was like what the hell are those? and found this tutorial and it turns out it’s exactly what it says on the tin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=GQpEcGfv-rY

they’re braids you make with your fingers out of loops. so i tried it twice and turns out that other than all the dropping of the loops i did it’s kind of simple?? so here’s my end results.

i have zero idea what to do with them but they look neat and i’m really happy with the ace pride one because i mostly managed to keep the tension the same throughout. the beginning of the red one is super loose because i made the yarn too long and couldn’t get it tight enough [image: image]

HA my nefarious plan to spread knowledge of obscure ancient fibercrafts is going swimmingly!!!!

So sometimes you’d have two-person braids and the reason was that the strings were so long that your second person would have a hand free and would use a stick to push the knots tight, like beating a piece of weaving. (Sometimes it would also be because there were more loops than would fit on one person’s hands.)

anyway idk what i’m going to do with the fingerloop braids I made to teach myself either, but– solidarity!!

(they do make decent like lanyards and stuff depending what you made them from. I did mine from embroidery floss and still haven’t worked out what my plan is, LOL.) (Your picture was not posted)