How to Weave Your Own Paracord (Video)

Intro: How to Weave Your Own Paracord (Video)

Here is a video I made about how to weave kumihimo braids, a braid very similar to paracord. This is a cool way to make your own costom lanyards with designs you made using the kumihimo pattern generator.

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Comments

[Gibbiford]

What if you used some of that cordage you made in your Make Great Cordage Out Of Grass instructable, and used that to make a very strong grass cord?

[garside]

I'm thinking of blowing this up to mega-size! I want to do exactly what you did only instead of string, I want to use paracord itself! I'm thinking that you could totally get some interesting rope out of that!

[ThatKnottyguy]

This was my first one! The pattern should look like this right? I am hooked.

[nepheron]

That's perfect!

[embochner]

what kind of string did you use?

[nepheron]

I used copper colored size 3 crochet yarn :)

[Kryptonite]

It would be quite a complex system, but would look awesome if you could do that!

[sunshiine]

Nice job! Thanks for sharing you hard work!

[zazenergy]

Totally awesome! Good job with the video (I know how hard those can be to put together). Kudos!

[nepheron]

Thanks! It's hard work, but I love doing it. I already have 2 more in the works!

[Kryptonite]

Great vid! very instructive. It could help if the slower bits were sped up for the sake of brevity.

I love the finish, what sort of strength addition can you get?

[nepheron]

Thanks! I was afraid that people wouldn't follow if I went to fast. However I may have over done it :) !

This method of braiding has a hollow center (that's why it stretches so much when you first pull on it). I think If you used synthetic string for the braid and a heavy duty synthetic string for the core, you could make a pretty stong rope.

The next step is finding out how to automate the process. This brading takes a very long time, so It's hard to do experiments!

[rimar2000]

Fantastic! Thanks for sharing.