Braiding Horsehair Bracelets: Your Beginner's Guide

Especially for horse owners and riders who enjoy crafts! Add a new twist to your love of horses. Fashionably express it by wearing a bracelet you braided from your horse's hair. This guide will teach you how to:▪ Legally obtain horsehair.▪ Prepare it for braiding.▪ Plait three braids: a 4-string, a 6-string, and an 8-string.▪ Measure your wrist and determine the length of braid you need for your bracelet.▪ Attach the end caps, rings, and clasp. Author Janet Wolanin Alexander learned about horsehair jewelry when a friend showed her a bracelet she had purchased out West during vacation. Entranced, Janet vowed to braid one from her own horse's hair. After spending years seeking instruction and practicing her skills, she wrote this comprehensive guide to save you some of the time and frustration she went through. The sooner you begin braiding your keepsake bracelet, the sooner you will wear your love for your horse on your sleeve! Janet discovered horsehair braiding in 2005, located her first horsehair braiding teacher and created her first bracelet in 2011, founded Swishtails Custom Horsehair Braiding in 2013, and received an Individual Artist Program Grant from the Indiana Arts Commission to study under a second artist in 2014. Read more