dragonlady7

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Yes! I had considered using them as like, an edge-trimming on the hems of garments! That was the most coherent idea I’d had.

The other similar method of cord production I’ve done a bit of is lucet weaving, which produces something similar to the beginner’s six-loop square braid that tora42 https://tmblr.co/mc7OZD6FiZS993uqRToxwRQ had in the thing I reblogged (they reblogged with a more elaborate lanyard in the time between I started responding to the post and when I posted it, LOL)– but I can’t find my dang lucet. (Of course I own two. They’re probably together, somewhere.) Lucet is best done with, like, silk yarn, and I’d used that stuff for bodice lacing and such. (With thread eyelets– metal eyelets would shred the cord.)

Semi-unrelatedly to all of this, I got a spinning wheel over the summer and am attempting to learn to spin, and so far I’ve only spun some indifferent wool yarn but I’m hoping to get more skilled and branch out. (I happen to have acquired an antique flax wheel that balks and sulks if I spin anything but fine thread on it, which like, is challenging ok, and I’ve had a lot going on, and anyway I’m daydreaming of spinning pretty things but I don’t knit or crochet so I’ve been researching things I can make with my handspun that isn’t sweaters or granny squares because I don’t need yet more fibercrafting tools in my house and also I can’t spin thick enough yarn for them anyway.)

It’s really a shame I don’t do any SCA stuff anymore. It’s not like I can’t couch my painstakingly hand-braided-from-homespun-fibers braids down as trims on modern garments but it’s not going to get appreciated the same way. 😅

Anyway this was why I was pondering offering fiber-art-based art treats for F&S because I don’t know what other audience there is for them in my life at the moment, LOL.

I don’t have much by way of coherent ideas but I’ve been doing a lot of applique-and-embroidery pieces (… a lot. Two! I’ve done two, and haven’t figurd out the finishing part. I guess they’ll wind up… like… tiny quilts? I’ll quilt-sandwich them over batting with a backing and bind the edges? IDK)– anyway some lengths of fingerloop braid would probably go a ways toward giving that some dimensional appeal too. What a good idea that is, I’m answering this publicly solely so I don’t convince myself I came up with it on my own later, LOL. (Your picture was not posted)