There’s a technique I haven’t tried yet although I have on my list for a very long time, and that’s tablet or card weaving.
It’s a very old technique I learned to know first in Museumsdorf Düppel, the reconstruction of an 800 year old village.
With card weaving you can make soo wonderful straps, similar to Kumihimo (but only similar! ;-)).
I’m at the point ‘already’ where I looked for some instructions (see links below) ;-)
Links:
Basic Tablet Weaving
Cardweaving Made Easy
The original site doesn’t exist any more and is now only available through: Cardweaving Made Easy
Linklist for ‘Tablet weaving’ incl a list of instructions
Google search result for ‘card weaving’
Google image search result for ‘card weaving’
Flinkhands Brettchenweben (German): click through to what you are interested in
Flinkhand’s card weaving beginners tutorial at creadoo (German)
The original site doesn’t exist any more and is now only available through webarchive: Flinkhand’s card weaving beginners tutorial at creadoo (German)
Card weaving tutorial (German)
Card weaving tutorial (German)
Wikipedia article: Museumsdorf Düppel (German)
Here at unikatissima: Entries with the tag ‘Kumihimo’