How To Make a Braided Bracelet Using Hemp Cord

Hello, everybody who bothered to click on this link!
I apologize if I went missing for a while, I was lurking the Archives of FF and Instructables. But, I'm here now, and ready to redeem myself from the dreadful guideline that was my last instructable. Please, try to forgive me.
Anyway, here it is!

Step 1: Supplies

Natural Hemp cord (I used 20%, 100 gr, whatever that means... just kidding, I know what that means, sort of)

Small beads of any color

Opt. Small charm


The beads mentioned here can be combined on the braid in all manner of ways. I took pictures of the few I made.

Comments

[jennybotha]

Hi--- just wondering -- as I don't have hemp-- just wondered if it could be made with colored electric wire-- it looks like scooby doo but has wire in the middle as opposed to being hollow.

[Bleu Eyes]

Sadly, I don't have a clue what your talking about Scooby doo-wise, but yes, you can use colored electric wire, stripped or unstripped. Unstripped you'd have to loosen up your braiding quite a bit to keep the bracelet from being too tight, and you'd have to use bigger beads to fit over the plastic. Stripped, just bend it a little after you thread each bead so that you don't end up with it barely braided. Bending it will make it fit tighter together. I hope this helps a bit.

[jennybotha]

Thanks, Bleu. Scooby doo is just a name for bright colored thin tubing that that many use to make friendship bracelets with.You may know it under another name. The wire I'm talking about looks like the scooby tubes but just have very thin wire inside. Hope that makes it a bit clearer.

[Penolopy Bulnick]

Lovely! So many possibilities!