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Textile techniques

  The making of braids by loops of a thread put on fingers, which are interlace each other, is a very old technique, popular especially between years 1200 and 1600. These samples were made according to directions from 1475 on www.fingerloop.com, the round braid looks like a braid made on a lucet.

 
Tailor's - Hanka, Textile techniques, part 4B
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