L-M
Braiding Research & Information Center
Founder/Editor Masako
Kinoshita
5
Winthrop Place, Ithaca, NY 14850 U. S. A.
Phone & Fax
607-257-0886
e-mail mkinoshi@twcny.rr.com
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A NEWSLETTER
FOR ALL WHO ARE
INTERESTED
IN THE LOOP-MANIPULATION BRAIDING TECHNIQUE
What is the
Loop-Manipulation
Braiding Technique?
The LOOP MANIPULATION
(L-M)
BRAIDING TECHNIQUE
is a pure hand-braiding technique
requiring no
assistance
of tools except for an optional beater. Every other working ends
of the threads are paired and the paired ends connected thus forming
loops
rather than being separate as in the case of most other braiding
techniques.
One end of the bunched braiding threads is fixed on a support, and you
mount each loop on a finger of the hands (the finger-held
method).
Or you may slip the sequentially arranged loops around the hands (the
hand-held
method). To make a braid, you exchange the loops, one at a time,
between two hands following a prescription. The technique's
ability
of efficiently making uniformly patterned braids is beyond one's
imagination.
The practice of the
technique
was reported for the first time in the early 20th century, and there
have
been sporadic reports since then. Its surprising facts that it
has
been practiced much earlier and wider in the world, however, started
unravel
only in the 1970s by Noémi Speiser's ground breaking researches
into the reconstruction of the 17th-c. English notebooks, followed by
that
of the 19th-c. Japanese treatise by me (Masako Kinoshita, 1987).
I have become more
and more
aware, as my friends send me information about the loop-manipulation
(L-M)
braiding technique, that it makes a world of difference that they
happen
to know the technique. As we need more information to learn more
about L-M techniques, it is vital to have the technique known as widely
as possible. I have, therefore, decided to start the
Loop-Manipulation
Braiding Research & Information Center (L-M BRIC). The success of
the
Center depends very much on my friends who are interested in the
technique
and are willing to send information to the Center to share with
others.
I'd like to hear your comments.
L-M BRIC News
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©
1998-2011 Masako Kinoshita
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No.
1 (March 1998. Revised 2001,
2006)
No. 2
(March 1999. Revised 2002, 2006)
No. 3
(May 2000. Revised 2002, 2006)
No. 4
(March 2001. Revised 2002, 2006)
No. 5
(April 2002, Revised 2006)
No. 6
(April 2003, Revised 2006, 2011)
No. 7
(March 2004, Revised 2006)
No. 8
(May 2005, Revised 2006)
No. 9 (May 2006)
No. 10 (May 2007)
No. 11 (April 2008)
No. 12 (July 2009)
No. 13 (June 2010)
No. 14 Coming soon
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