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If you cut down an Italian prune but don't either poison it or dig out the roots, new trunks will sprout around the stump of the old tree. This will give you several very straight, vertical trunks of roughly equal size that can be braided together and left to merge.
A photo for my daughter, who's intrigued by braids. Photo Frederick "FN" Noronha, Creative Commons, attribution. Some rights reserved. 2006.
Wild Ennerdale partners revisited Glen Feshie to go further up the valley to see the inspiring braided river and regenerating juniper pine woodland.
Finally I was able to finish braiding this cord... I've put this aside for a long time. Practicing my braiding skills for lots of kidada projects! :D
I didn't really like the color combi I used on this proj but its just for the sake of practicing anyway... Will add charms to it and see how it turns out :) I will post the finish project once done and list up kidada bracelets for sale when I'm ready ;) Wish me luck!
This is a braid of sweet grass. For those who don't know, sweet grass is a traditional sacred medicine used by many North American Indian tribes, and for us one of its main uses is as a sort of purifier before sacred ceremonies. Anyway, around 25 or so years ago, my (now deceased) stepfather and I went on a cross country road trip to Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. My stepfather, Jan, a Kickapoo-Potawatomie Indian and spiritual leader, wanted to visit a traditional Kickapoo-Potawatomie friend of his (and his family) who lived in that area. Originally the Potawatomie (now located in other areas including Kansas and Oklahoma) were from the Great Lakes region and it's a sort of spiritual homeland to them.
While we stayed with this traditional family in Sault Ste. Marie, we all went on a day trip to go pick sweet grass. At first it's hard to differentiate from any of the other marshy grasses that grow everywhere in Michigan, but once you know what to look for, it absolutely glows. I remember so clearly how different the green of this grass was to the others and how translucent it seemed with the sun behind it. We gathered armfuls of the stuff, then went back to the family's house, where we spent hours braiding the shoots together. The sweet grass eventually dries, and goes from that beautiful green to the color of this braid.
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It seems that telephone exchanges in London were named until the introduction of the DIRECTOR telephone system, introduced to Holborn (for example) in 1927.
This could be the oldest thing yet found in our house.