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Instructions for a 6-strand Round Braid #1

Although I call it a round braid, this braid actually has a trapezoidal cross section on its own, but will become round if worked around a core. It is useful for applications where six strands are to be used and a flat braid is not desired.

The first step is to take the outside right-hand strand, and bring it around behind the other right hand strands. Bring it also behind the inside left-hand strand and then up and around that strand before bringing it back to the right hand as shown by the arrow. Place it to the inside of the other right-hand strands.

Now take the outside left-hand strand and pass it behind the other left-hand strands, and bring it up and around the inside left-hand strand in the same manner as the first step. Pass it back to the left hand to the inside of the other left-hand strands.

Here both steps have been done, and these two steps are repeated for the rest of the braid.

Here is what a short length of the braid looks like from the front.

Here is what the back of the braid looks like.

"So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone..." I Samuel 17:50

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