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Ok. now let's start our braiding. You want to take your 3 strips and just sort of pile
them up on top of each other, and a nice threaded needle and push that thru. We're just going
to secure these pieces together; I'm just going to go threw a few times and knot that
off. And then we're going to tie it to a chair or something secure that will hold the end
while we do our braiding. So I got a piece of hemp twine here and I'm just going to slip
it in to that knot and I'm going to tie it to a chair. Ok. now we want to begin our braiding
and it's just a simple braid taking from the outside to the middle and from the outside
to the middle. Now you can change the color by folding the denim in different ways; so
this one is folded so the inside is showing and this one is folded so the outside is showing,
and then you can; and the colors will change if you do it like that. You want to braid
with a flat braid so I'm, I'm almost like flattening the piece out when I fold it over
and then as you work down you have to continuously pull the ends apart because they'll get all
tangled up. So you want to continue braiding and if you decide you want to change color
you can always turn the, the piece inside out again and; and get a different, a little
bit different look. You're braiding fun; you there is an upside and an underneath side
to the braid so you want to, any; you want to decide which is going to be the top of
the braid and so you will put any like extra tags or anything like hanging out when we
do a join, you want to try to keep that on one side; on the bottom side and try to keep
the top side of the braid looking the neatest. Now it's not such a neat thing anyway; we're
using rags and but you want a little, a certain texture on the top. So you keep continuing
down until we get, until one; one braided piece gets too short and I'll do it go one
more, about 3 or 4 inches like this. Ok, so now this piece is about 3 or 4 inches and
we're going to join another piece; we're not going to sew it on we're just going to put
the two together, I'm going to put it underneath like this and then fold the piece; and then
continue braiding with the doubled up piece and that will secure the new piece in there
and continue lengthening it. So whenever you come to the end or not quite to the end; you're
going to add another piece in the same way and continue braiding. You need quite a long
length in order to make a rug. Now I'll show you what to do when you come to one of these
corners; remember we made these corners as we we're cutting in order to have a very long
extended piece of cloth, so when you come to this you can just sort of roll it up and
then continue braiding. And if there are any flaps or anything sticking out; you want to
try to keep that towards the underneath. And remember to constantly run your hand along
the strips to kind of keep the ends from being tangled as you braid.