Solo Rope bracelets

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Not found on any map, Endrykas is a large migrating tent city wherein the horseclans of Cyphrus gather to trade and exchange information. [Lore]

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Rope bracelets

Postby Taylani on November 9th, 2013, 6:11 am

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Time Stamp 65 Fall 513

It was evening once more in Endrykas, the stars were out in force twinkling over head, while on the grasses fires were lit, songs were sung and the Drykas were singing. There was a joviality that belied their hard existence, where one day might bring death just as easily as it could bring great joy. Perhaps that was the reason that they had these mini-celebrations at night.

Taylani sat off to one side, many things weighing on her mind, but she had rope in her lap and handfuls of beads laid on the blanket on which she sat. Her red hair was free flowing, though in her hair was pins that held it back off her face, the pins crudely made. Her cycle has yet to come this time, and it was nearing almost fifteen days late, when she was never late. Gods knew that she had been stressed and anxious, that could have interrupted it but deep in her heart she did not believe it. She looked at these strange faced people, strange customs, strange language, and strange heritage, and knew fear. Deep abiding fear of being pregnant amid these people, being pregnant with Fallan..by Fallan. Men will never know the unique vulnerability a woman is put in when she is with child. They might try to understand, but they will never understand the burden of knowing someone's life was very literally within your hand.

Being pregnant meant one's body was not one's own, one's body was going to go through a rapid series of changes, making everything more difficult more treacherous. Then the delivery itself...Taylani pushed that thought from her mind. She was alone and very possibly with child, and she was expected to do all that alone. With no one to comfort her, to offer her advice except the people that she tried hard to retain hatred for, but more often then not settled for dislike.

It didn't matter now, now she just was going to make some more jewelry to stash for Fallan to trade off some where. Tonight was going to be rope bracelets, she was going to be able to practice some of her more intricate knotting too.


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Postby Taylani on November 9th, 2013, 4:38 pm

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She first chose the color scheme of the first bracelet. This was a part that she disliked because she was more of the plain low key fan rather then colorful and brilliant fan so she always tended to make jewelry that was simple. However she understood that not everyone appreciated simple lines like she did, so she forced herself to use color more and more. This time she chose yellow beads blending with orange beads and red beads.

First she began to braid three strands of rope together, the coarse fibers sliding along her hands and fingers, slowly destroying the softness that lingered. If she did this enough her hands would be rougher and worn, much like her mother's hands were. Slowly she twined the three braids together, securing the end with her fingers as the Drykas women had shown her the last time she braided a bracelet together with them.

After she had about an inch of tightly braided rope, perhaps too tight because it was so taunt it was pulling a little to the right, she flipped the rope upside down so that the rope strands that were not braided sprayed over her hands downward. Picking three beads, yellow orange and red, Taylani slips them all onto the free strands of rope, one bead per strand. She then begins to do a double helix knot. It was a knot that looked more like a twisting ladder, the effects caused the beads to weave in and out of each other. When she tied off that knot she had an idea, and turned the braided part of the rope back up, and quickly undid her braid.

Here she picked up three more beads, again one from each color group, and slide them onto the rope. Once more she did another double helix knot, that was secured on both ends. She had enough rope to do another, and so she did. The bracelet now had three double helix knot, and she secured the third knot to the first with a quick tie. To ensure that the knots did not work loose she picked up the clear adhesive agent from her bag and painted the ends of all the knots together with the bonding element. Now the bracelet was sort of like a bangle, no clasp but slide on over the hand and was surprisingly stiff for a rope bracelet.

She tossed it into her bag once the quick drying agent had finished drying, and took out another length of rope and bent it double so that the ends met. This one was going to be super simple but it would require a lot of beads. She took a handful of blue and green beads this time and in an alternating she slid the beads onto the rope, pushing so that they slide up the loop and over the top as well. She then bends the loop over her hands so that it met the ends in her hands easily. She then used the two ends to twine around the loop, and then knot together. Once more the adhesive is liberally applied on the knot to keep it from slipping. The end result was a double bracelet of blue and green to slip over one's hand as well, with the inside that would lay against the wrist a twisted knot.


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Postby Taylani on November 9th, 2013, 5:45 pm

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The next piece that she did was going to test her knotting skills, because it was a very intricate knot but would end up being beautiful. She got a single length of rope that was around a foot long, she wanted the extra because this was called a sheep shank knot and it involved bending the rope in such a way that there was three strands from one rope, as well as each end holding a knot.

She also selected purple and pink beads, though this was going to be tricky, she didn't want the entire rope covered because she wanted the intricate knot work to show. So she got the adhesive out as well and marked the first 'stop'. Once the adhesive was dry she threaded the first five beads, this time doing three pink, two purple pattern. She pushed only until she felt the resistance of the adhesive, here she applied more to the bead and the already bonded spot so that the bead would not go further up. She also applied some adhesive to the last bead.

Then she measure off a few spaces and places another adhesive spot, and repeated the process again. Then she did the same a third time, hopefully if she measured correctly the three lines of beads would end up side by side with the knot on either side of the work showing clearly.

Now it was time to start knotting, she laid the rope length in front of her on the ground. Bending one end to the north, just half way instead of doubling, and the other end is bent south. This meant that there were two bends each of equal length. She picked up the second end again and twined it through the first bend and around the end of the second, then looped it under itself and pulled it taunt. She applied adhesive here, while normally knots did not need this she felt that with jewelry added protection of slipping was better then not. She repeated the process with the first end. Once this was done she was left with a wide area of rope bent and bound, beaded as well that was also left with two ends that was loose and free.

These ends she brought up and added more beads again in the three pink, two purple pattern, then brought them together and did a simple over the top knot, and added the last bit of adhesive once more.


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Postby Magpie on January 5th, 2014, 10:23 pm

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Taylani :
XP:
Planning +1
Beading +2
Knotting +3

Lores:
The Unique Feeling of a Possible Pregnancy
Designing for Other People's Tastes

Notes :
I added an extra Knotting point because of how detailed you were in your last post :)


If you have any questions or concerns about what was awarded, please don't hesitate to PM me.

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