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5 mm pinch bead, color A
5 mm pinch bead, color B
2.5 x 5 mm SuperDuo bead
4 mm fire-polished bead
110 seed bead
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This necklace is a beaded eight-
cord kongoh gumi braid. You
can work it either on a marudai
or a foam disk. The instructions
below are for the disk.
SETUP
- Cut eight cords to 5 ft. (1.5 m)
each. Gather them together, and
tie them together with an overhand
knot about 1½ in. (3.8 cm) from
one end. Tie another knot about
1 in. (2.5 cm) away (toward the long
end of the cords). - Coat the opposite ends of the
cords with Fray Check or white
glue, and allow them to dry. Trim
the cord ends at an angle. - Align the kumihimo disk so you
have a dot at the top, the bottom,
and each side. - Feed the knot through the center
hole in the disk, placing two cords
at the top, two at the bottom, and
two on each side so you have two
cords f lanking each dot. Slide the
cords into the corresponding slots. - String each cord with the beads
listed in the Bead & cord layout.
Counting each dangle unit as
Try a new twist on kumihimo by adding dangles
for a sturdy necklace with sparkly fringe.
Kumi
dangles
necklace
designed by Svetlana Chernitsky
Cord 1
Color A pinch bead, color B pinch bead,
3As, dangle (see “Stringing the dangles”).
Cords 2 & 3
B, 3As, dangle, A.
Cord 4
3As, dangle, A, B.
Cord 5
2As, dangle, A, B, A.
Cords 6 & 7
A, dangle, A, B, 2As.
Cord 8
Dangle, A, B, 3As.
BEAD & CORD LAYOUT
On each cord, string the given pattern a total of eight times.
Stringing the dangles
- String a SuperDuo, an 11 0 seed bead, a fire-polished
bead (fp), an 11 0 , a SuperDuo, an 11 0 , a fp, an 11 0 ,
a fp, an 11 0 , a fp, and an 11 0. - Pass the cord back through the open hole of the second
SuperDuo added. - Pick up an 11 0 , a fp, and an 11 0 , and pass the cord
through the open hole of the first SuperDuo added.