[Jewelry making - Article 00133] - Re: [Orchid] Hollow Core Bracelet

[Helen Hill]

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Hi Karen,

>     I am not looking at making a bracelet made of jump rings nor of
>     the finger knitting kind that uses the little 4 pronged device. I
>     want to actually weave (twining) as used in making baskets, but out
>     of wire, into a cylinder that bends into a bracelet. It is called
>     Hollow Core because there is space inside the woven cylinder. The
>     trick is not in making the cylinder, but in making one in bracelet
>     form because if it is made straight and then bent, it will be
>     deformed. Hope this is a little clearer. 

    So do you perhaps need some kind of alternative weaving technique
    whereby you have more "threads" on the outside of the bracelet tube
    and less on the inside? Such that eg. if the seam was on the inside,
    the actual open, flat shape would not be a parallelogram or
    rectangle, but have shorter edges and be longer down the middle? Does
    that make sense? Another example might be knitting (although I know
    you're NOT knitting, but imagine a piece of knitting where as you
    knit more rows, you increase the number of stitches at regular
    intervals so that you have edges that are getting bigger? Can you see
    what I'm getting at and then when you get to the half way point,
    decrease at the same regular interval? Would this be possible in a
    weaving technique. 

    It might sound daft, but I once knitted a trilby for one of my
    daughter's teddy bears when she was little and I made the brim in
    exactly the shape I'm talking about but the seam was on the outside.
    It worked out perfectly but being the brim of a hat it was flat as
    opposed to rounded. 

    Does this help in any way? 

Helen
Preston, UK
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