Hello everyone,
My 6 year old firefighter is now 7, and although still hoping to be a firefighter, temporarily more interested in being a superhero!
I’ve been doing a small range of knots, including some turks head mats in ribbon, but I’d like to be able to do what I know as multiple plaiting. That is, instead of 3-strand plaiting, 4, 5, 6, etc strands.
Does anyone know where I can find some instructions on that, please? My internet searches are not turning up anything useful.
Regards,
Mrs Glenys Chew
hello Mrs G Chew,
I have a few examples on my website. The URL is : www.dsv.nl/~salmaj
You’ll see some buttons there. You need the one left to the button showing a Turk’s Head knot
Hope this is what you’re looking for
kind regards
André vam der Salm
Thank you, Willeke and Andre. I am printing those pages out so I can practice them whilst I’m waiting for appointments, etc. Although, I am supposed to be catching up on my sewing and mending with Tim’s school uniform then… 
Hi there Willeke and Andre,
Just to thank you both properly for the plaiting information on your websites. I’ve just made my daughter a belt, in 4-cord plait, which is exactly the circumference of her waist, plus a tiny margin of the ends. Then I used some remaining cordage in 4-cord plait again, for which I left a good pair of loops on the top end, and whipped it at the bottom end. (This part forms a hanging “tail”.) The two loops “hook” on to the ends of the waistband, by means of folding back on themselves to create what I can best describe as a sort of reversed half hitch. I hope I’m describing this well enough for you to know what I mean.
Anyway, if I ever get round to using the digital camera again, I shall take a photo of it for you. It’s in a very striking gold cotton cord, with multicoloured metallic thread running through it. Hence the whipping - it wouldn’t melt. She likes it, anyway.
Regards
Glenys Chew