Loop Braiding and Kute-uchi L13

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1000 yen each

Auhor's book 1994

Masako Kinoshita


Students

Beverly Bills
Collyer Ekholm
Elaine Escola
Valerie Frey
Carol Goodwin
Michael Hattori
Vanessa Hurran
Naomi Konishi
Jennie Parry
Anne Percival
Misako Shintani
Lucinda Stephenson
Ikue Suzuki
Kyoko Tanaka
Helen Vonow
Kathleen Warner

(full)

Masako Kinoshita

Ithaca, USA

L-m Braiding: Introductory Course
L-m braiding is a technique for making braids by simply exchanging looped ends of yarns mounted on fingers (finger-held=f-h) or held around the hands (hand-held=h-h). The technique is historically very old and has been found in many cultural regions in the world.
In this course participants learn techniques in which the index fingers are used for the manipulation. The participants use cotton embroidery floss to learn to make the three most basic braids: twin 5-element 2-ridge flat braids (simultaneously produces two braids), a 10-element square braid and a 10-element 4-ridge flat braid in various color combinations.
Each participant rrecieves a text-sample notebook on to which the sample swatches made in the class may be affixed.
ループ組紐とは指、或いは手の回りに掛けた輪(ループ)になった組糸を交互に交換して紐を組む徒手技法です。歴史的には非常に古く、世界に広く分布する技法です。
このコースでは、アジア以外の地域に見出される、人さし指で操作する技法を使います。木綿刺繍糸を用いて3種類の最も基本的な組紐:2畝平組紐を2本同時に組む、4畝筒状組紐(角組)、4畝平組紐の組み方を習得します。
配布したテキスト・サンプル帳に作ったサンプルを貼付します。

Kute-uchi: Introductory Course
This class introduces the f-h l-m braiding used today in Japan and in some Asian countries. It also is considered to have been the one used in Japan since the 5th-7th centuries. For this method the small or the ring fingers transfer the loops mounted on fingers.
The participants learn using cotton embroidery floss and five loops to make the three most basic braids: twin 5-element 2-ridge flat braids (simultaneously produces two braids), a ten-element square braid and a ten-element 4-ridge flat braid in various color variation.
Each participant receives a text-sample notebook on to which the sample swatches made in the class may be affixed.
日本及びアジアの何カ国かで現在用いられているループ指操作組紐技法です。日本では5−7世紀から用いられていたと考えられます。小指か薬指を操作に用いることが、アジア以外の地域で用いられている人挿し指を使う指操作技法との違いです。木綿刺繍糸を用いて3種類の最も基本的な組紐:5要素2畝平組紐を2本同時に組む、10要素4畝筒状組紐(角組)、10要素4畝平組紐の組み方を習得します。
配布したテキスト・サンプル帳に作ったサンプルを貼付します。
Loop braiding

Samples of the Medieval braids