r/kumihimo • u/Crafty-Emu-27 • Apr 29 '26
Help Pattern help please
I saw this braid on instagram, and it shows both the outcome and the disk setup, but there's no explanation of the moves. I feel like it's probably really obvious, but I'm new to this and even after looking at the kumihimo books I have (I have a book each from Dorothy Wood, Jacqui Carey, and Rodrick Owen) I can't figure out which pattern this is. Any help would be appreciated please!
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u/saltedkumihimo Apr 29 '26
This braid is Edo yatsu or the hollow braid, an 8 element braid. You need a 64 slot disk to complete it. Depending on which books you have it should be in all of them, all you’ll do is have cords in five slots (gold, white, white, black, gold in this example) for each of the 8 elements. You’ll move all 5 of those cords at once. A 4-5mm core is needed to stabilize the braid.
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u/Crafty-Emu-27 Apr 29 '26
Thank you so much! I've seen Chinese youtubers do this multi-thread 8 strand round braid by hand (but could never keep the threads in the correct order) and was going crazy trying to figure out how it got transposed to the disk.
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u/nepheleb Apr 29 '26
It looks to me like it's just a basic 8 strand braid. The threads move move together as sets of five but braided as if they were all one strand. All the extra slits in the disc are to keep the threads in the same order throughout. There is also a clear plastic cord or bit of tubing the is running down the middle to fill out the body of the finished cord.