Does anyone know how to do string designs?

Question

There is this plastic string they sell at the craft store. It comes in all different colors and you make designs with it. I can do designs like chinese staircase, butterfly, squares, circles and a zipper. I want to learn some new ones, so whoever knows what I'm talking about please help me by sending me the instructions for some different ones.

Answer 1

One of the best sites in English/America is the site of the Boondoggle man:
http://www.bluemoon.net/~dotoran/
http://www.bluemoon.net/~dotoran/look_in_tin.htm

Other useful sites are:
http://www.yoarra.nl/eng/ (More ideas and projects on the Dutch pages.)
http://www.scoubiguide.co.uk/
http://www.e-scoutcraft.com/braiding/braiding.html
http://www.makingfriends.com/lanyard_keyring_rwb.htm
http://www.angelfire.com/ny3/upariver/boon.html
http://www.howtomakescoobies.com/project10.htm

If this is not enough you can also use instructions for macrame and general knot sites.
http://knopen.ismijnhobby.nl/frames/homepage_frame_eng.html

Answer 2

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Does anyone know how to do string designs?
There is this plastic string they sell at the craft store. It comes in all different colors and you make designs with it. I can do designs like chinese staircase, butterfly, squares, circles and a zipper. I want to learn some new ones, so whoever knows what I'm talking about please help me by...

Answer 3

i often do this a lot but what i have on my stick is kinda different i have a rolled nylon then weaved on that same diamond row a hockey lace then one diamond row directly below that is a weaved hockey lace. try verticle rails thats always fun to mess with. also a double inverted v with one v going normal way and the other pointing toward your shaft

Answer 4

I think you're talking about the *flat* plastic that comes in lengths for making lanyards, etc. It's often called "plastic lacing."

Here are lots of links about using it, and probably patterns too:

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLC,GGLC:1969-53,GGLC:en&q=%22plastic+lacing%22+how+to+instructions



HTH,

Diane B.