The Contemporary Theatre of Ohio’s production of Tony Award-winning play “Jaja’s African Hair Braiding,” written by Ohio State alumna Jocelyn Bioh, will take the stage in Studio One at the Riffe Center Thursday and will run through March 22. Bioh, an actress-turned-playwright, earned her Bachelor of Arts in English from Ohio State in 2005 before […]
This braid is... the third attempt at a necklace cord for a necklace for my sister. And I am STILL not satisfied.
What I *want* is a cream-coloured braid (to go with a carved bone pendant) which is purely cream, no other colours, and which has contrasting texture through it, caused by a mixture of thick strands and thin strands.
Attempt 1: the thin strands were too beige, not cream.
Attempt 2: the entire braid was too thick; it might work as a choker, but not a necklace with a pendant.
Attempt 3: the braid has a nice thickness, but not enough texture contrast.
Part of me says "Stop! The Perfect is the Enemy of the Good!" and the other part of me says "I will not stop until I get it RIGHT! Otherwise I will look at it and only see how WRONG it is."
Kumihimo braiding on my Marudai. Playing with texture, a 16-strand braid with soft thick cream bamboo (8 strands) and thinner cream shiny wrapped cotton/acrylic/nylon (8 strands).
I couldn't get the idea of a train of Darkrai braiding each others hair out of my head... so I had to draw it! Art Fight Mass Attack from last year!
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Math hivemind: I'm looking for something on the mathematics of kumihimo braiding.
The version I know of has a disk with 8 slots, and you start with 7 strings in slots. You take one of the strings, pull it out of its slot, and put it into the empty one, and repeat. It's a super simple way to make a nice braiding pattern.
See this for pictures: https://raft.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/PGS-Kumihimo.pdf
The person who showed this to me told me which number of strings worked, but I forget what she said. If you just try to do the same thing with, say, 5 strings -- make 6 slots, pull up a string two slots from the empty one, put it in the empty one, repeat -- it didn't seem to work. So it's not just 2 being relatively prime to 5 or 7.
Anyone have any links or resources on this?
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