{"id":172,"date":"2008-05-30T14:31:01","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T19:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=172"},"modified":"2008-05-30T14:31:44","modified_gmt":"2008-05-30T19:31:44","slug":"fingerloop-fibers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=172","title":{"rendered":"Fingerloop fibers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This will be put on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/supplies\">sales site<\/a> in more detail, but since I was just asked a question.<\/p>\n<p>This is a 5-loop fingerloop braid done in the silks and cottons that I carry. (Linens yet to come.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/fl1-20080530.jpg\" alt=\"Fingerloop braids\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From left to right: 6-ply rayon, 20\/2 silk, 60\/2 silk, scale marker, 8\/2 unmercerized cotton, 10\/2 mercerized cotton, 5\/2 mercerized cotton (not listed, but I do have some).<\/p>\n<p>Since the question was specifically about silk, here&#8217;s a close-up.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/fl2-20080530.jpg\" alt=\"Fingerloop braids\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I like the 20\/2 for fingerloop &#8211; doesn&#8217;t slice your fingers off, goes fairly fast, makes a cord large enough to be useful with only 5 loops\/10 ends. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This will be put on the sales site in more detail, but since I was just asked a question. This is a 5-loop fingerloop braid done in the silks and cottons that I carry. (Linens yet to come.) From left to right: 6-ply rayon, 20\/2 silk, 60\/2 silk, scale marker, 8\/2 unmercerized cotton, 10\/2 mercerized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,11,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-braiding","category-string","category-stringpage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}