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A Beginners Guide
Learn the basics of Kumihimo braiding and beading to create stunning, stylish pieces of jewellery.
This colourful and informative beginner’s guide explains how to use a circular disc and a variety of braids and beads to create 12 stunning pieces of jewellery.
Each project will teach you a different braid or technique to develop your skills as you work through the book.
- Guidance on the tools and materials you need to make your own braids
- 12 bracelet and necklace projects, including colour and style variations for each project
- Informative step-by-step photographs of the essential sequences involved in Kumihimo, plus colourful beading patterns.
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8 Braid Kumihimo
Flat Kumihimo Bracelet
Starter Kit
Kumihimo is a transportable craft so once you have mastered the basics of placing your braids over the disc in different formations to make a variety of patterns and motifs, you can create kumihimo jewellery wherever you go.
Getting started with the Starter Kumihimo Braided Kit makes it easy to discover the ancient art of braiding cords. This starter kit includes a disk, an assortment of satin cord and also 8 bobbins to wrap surplus cord around. Â
Kumihimo Accessories
7 Braid Kumihimo
The new arrival of the 7 Braid Kumihimo Disk and Kit is here. This new disk, also known as as ‘fill the gap’ or 7 Strand Kumihimo, has been designed and manufactured by the team at Riverside Beads.
The flower shaped disk offers a simpler way to create 7 Strand Braided Kumihimo designs. The disk only has eight slots instead of 32 on a standard round Kumihimo disk. This new disk is marked with numbers one to eight to guide you as you work with your seven strands of cord.
The new kit will teach you how to braid with a satin cord and will also introduce beads to your braiding. The kit features 7 braiding patterns to develop your braiding using assorted size 8 seed beads.
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KitsWhite Kumihimo and Bronze Crystal Bundle – Disk and Bonus Goodies
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Bracelet KitsWhite Magatama Kumihimo Bracelet & Disk Offer
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Bracelet KitsWhite Crystal Kumihimo Bracelet Kit
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