All girls remember bright woven bracelets from childhood. Such baubles-braids most often weaved in the camp and left each other as a keepsake. Since boho style came into fashion, baubles have again gained popularity, this time among older girls. In this article you will find a detailed diagram of the manufacture of do-it-yourself braids.
Color options and material choices
Braids-braids can be woven in three ways:
- Take strands of floss in different colors.
- Combine threads of different shades of the same color.
- To do the edging, it is best to contrast the color with other colors.
Braids made of mouline thread look best: they are bright, pleasant to wear, durable, have a wide range of colors, quite dense, are sold in almost any store for creativity - the pros can go on forever. If for some reason you can’t get a floss, then take fine yarn or ordinary sewing threads folded three to four times.
Simple bauble do it yourself
In order to weave a simple bauble-pigtail, it is not necessary to possess any supernatural skills: it is quite enough to be able to weave braids out of hair. Such an accessory will become a real decoration of the image and a bright and unusual detail in boho-style clothes, goes well with jeans, as well as with romantic embroidered dresses.
So, weave a bauble-pigtail as follows:
- We take 12 threads, one meter each. When weaving a bauble with a fringing, you will need two threads of three different colors, and six threads of the edge color.
- Now divide all the threads into strands: the edging thread, two threads of the main color, again the edging thread. You should get three such strands.
- Now “mix” the first and second strands: take the first thread from the first strand, the first from the second strand, the second from the first strand, the second from the second strand, and so on. Lay them in a row on a flat surface, such as a table.
- Fasten the weave with tape.
- Now set the third strand aside and start weaving the first two strands: tie their threads in pairs with knots to the right.
- Repeat the procedure, but this time remove the outermost threads and do not touch them. Also do not touch the third strand.
- For the third row, set aside the two extreme threads and tie with the third to sixth thread.
- For the last row, knot to the right only the fifth and sixth threads. If you did everything right, you should get a triangle.
- Now, with an extreme lock, start tying a triangle: tie knots of the first strand to the left with knots to the left.
- Then set aside the first strand and begin to braid the second strand with the third thread.
- Repeat tying alternately knots to the left, then to the right. You should get a braid, if the pattern is broken, then dissolve the last threads and try again.
- Braid the pigtail until it is the right length. Then knit an even row of knots to close the weave.
It is important to remember that the outermost threads need to be tied looser so that the edge is rounded.
What can be done in this technique
Having mastered this simple weaving, you can weave not only an interesting bauble-braid, but also a spectacular belt for a light summer dress, if you take longer threads, you can also make an interesting summer hat decor by gluing such a braided braid instead of a ribbon. It will also be interesting to look at the woven handle on a small summer beach bag. Imagine and do not stop at the ideas given in this article!