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This Thursday’s 2nd challenge Beaded Beauties<\/em><\/a> gave me the opportunity to do something I wanted to do for a long time: making Kumihimo beads. On the first two photos you see Kumihimo beads I made, the blue ones with cotton thread and the black and white ones with acrylic yarn. And that’s where the problem lies: <\/a> unikatissima\u2019s Kumihimo How-to<\/a> Links of entry This Thursday’s 2nd challenge Beaded Beauties gave me the opportunity to do something I wanted to do for a long time: making Kumihimo beads. Kumihimo is a Japanese technique to braid beautiful cords, but then: what do I do with the cord? It’s way too beautiful (and too labour-intensive! ;-)) to be … Continue reading “Kumihimo Beads”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,38,82,86,88],"tags":[448,467,228,489,490],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3774,"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/3774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nKumihimo<\/a> is a Japanese technique to braid beautiful cords, but then: what do I do with the cord? It’s way too beautiful (and too labour-intensive! ;-)) to be used as a shoelace for instance.
\nI thought that it would make wonderful beads, but usually the braids are finished by wrapping some string around the braid and such beads would be much too long.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n![\"Kumihimo](\"http:\/\/unikatissima.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/07\/unikatissima-kumihimo-beads-b.jpg?w=250\")
Therefore I figured out how to make my own Kumihimo beads.
\nThe technique is far from perfect and I hope that you will try it and give suggestions to enhance the technique.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
\nAll beads were made with 4 light and 4 dark coloured yarns, but I changed the initial positions on my cardboard Kumihimo disk<\/a>.
\nYou see at the surrounding seed beads how tiny my Kumihimo beads are.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n![\"Kumihimo](\"http:\/\/unikatissima.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/07\/unikatissima-kumihimo-beads-d.jpg?w=250\")
What to do:<\/strong>
\nMake your Kumihimo cord. I worked about 20 rounds.
\nWhen finished, pull all threads into the bead.<\/p>\n
\nIf you make the Kumihimo cord ‘the normal way’ you won’t have enough place into the bead to pull all 16 threads in (8 threads at each side of the bead).
\nI tried different techniques to ‘reserve’ a place for the thick bunch of threads. The best one I found was making a bundle of 8 threads of the same gauge and using it as ‘filler’, that means, working around them (see third photo).
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The Kumihimo beads are from fabric and can be stitched however you want. On this photo I surrounded my Kumihimo bead by seed beads and made a kind of Freeform Peyote<\/a> Pendant.<\/p>\n
\nLinks:<\/strong><\/em>
\nThis Thursday\u2019s 2nd challenge Beaded Beauties<\/a><\/p>\n
\nunikatissima\u2019s Freeform Peyote How-to<\/a><\/p>\n <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"