Heartfelt thanks to Elliott Evans for sharing scanned images of the newsletters. He is also hosting them on his own website with my permission. It’s important to have back-up sites!
Ingrid Crickmore (aka loopbraider) has posted synposes of the newsletters here.
NEWSLETTER NO. 5 (April 2002, Revised 2006) Download scanned newsletter (pdf) Special Issue: Loop-Manipulation as a Technique for Making Single-Course Twining
F-H L-M OF Hunza PEOPLE: Reports from Ray Napier (UK)
SCOT Braids from Fifth-century Japanese Burial Mounds
The Yaos in Thai practice the 5 loops inner-finger-operated F-H L-M
The L-M used in India has been found to be ‘inner-finger operated’ method
Mystery of a Beater Stand Illustrated on the Face of a Cypress-strip Fan
About Single Course Twining
Single Course Twining
NEWSLETTER NO. 6 and Illustrated Instruction Series No. 6 (April 2003, Revised 2006, 2011) Download scanned newsletter (pdf) L-m braids, ca. 1630-40, Found in the Royal Danish Collections at Rosenborg Castle, Copenhagen
Family Tradition of L-M Braiding Kept in Aomori, Japan
Loop-braiding in Early 19th-c. Egypt
A Loop-Braiding Text from the Bad State Library, Karlsruhe, Germany
The F-H L-M METHOD 1 is also used in Finland
Braids on Frederik III’s gown
Mrs. Kumeda’s Method
Braids Found in The Karlsruhe Document
NEWSLETTER NO. 7 and Illustrated Instruction Series No. 7 (March 2004, Revised 2006)
Loop Braid from the Bronze Age
Discovered!! Fragments of Tortoise Shell Design Braids Proving the Practice of the Procedure Proposed by N. Speiser in 1986
About Tortoise-shell-pattern (kikko) braids
Braids on Relic Purses in Sion, Switzerland
A Florentine fresco shows loop-manipulation warp-twining
Edge Trimmings on the Llangorse Textile from Wales
Single-face Tortoise-shell Design Braids
NEWSLETTER NO. 8 & Illustrated Instruction Series No. 8 L-M Braiding Instructions Found in a Seventeenth-c. Printed Book
Comparison between the Tollemache book and the Serene book
Braids with an unorthodox pattern in English records
Braiding Techniques of Toraja People
Field Report on the L-M Braiding Practice in Mamasa
Twin Flat Braids with a Twill Pattern
NEWSLETTER NO. 9 & Illustrated Instruction Series No. 9 Braiding in Toraja / L-M braiding (2)
On the Braided Seal Strings on a Document from 1590 in the Danish National Archives
An Excavated Silk Sock at Reshui in Dulan, Quinghai, Northwestern China
L-M braiding in Ecuador and in Ethiopia
Braid Making for the Replica of “Kozakurakawaodoshi Yoroi”
Report from Frieda Sorber (1/8/06)
Symposiums on L-M Braiding: “Handling Carriage Horses like Braiding”
List of Observation Points for Recording L-M Techniques
L-M Braiding in Sulawesi Island, Indonesia
NEWSLETTER NO. 10 and Illustrated Instruction Series 10
Wale’keru: L-M Techniques of the Guajiro Indians in Colombia
‘Kaku-hira-uchi Braid Fragments’ of Engakuji Temple, Kamakura, Japan
Loop-Manipulation Braids on a Fifteenth-century Purse
Xi, Lace-like Fabric Fragments Excavated from Lianling Mashan Tomb No. 1
modern Attempt at Making a Medieval Fingerloop-Braiding Booklet
F-H L-M Braiding Technique of Guajiro Indians
NEWSLETTER NO. 11 and Illustrated Instruction Series 11
Finnish Finger-Held Loop-Manipulation Braiding Operated by the Small Finger
Braids in Chinese Classics And Excavated Braids from the Warring States Chu Cemetery
Loop-Manipulation Braids Found among Yi People in Sechuan Province, China
Idiosyncratic Appearances of Braids with an Unorthodox Pattern
Young People Enjoying Braiding
Fingerloop Braiding with 9 (and more) Loops, Using Method 2
NEWSLETTER NO. 13 and Illustrated Instruction Series No. 13 L-M braiding of Hongtou (Red Head) Yao People
Book Review – European Loop Braiding: Investigations and Results Part I, Part ll
L-11/I BRIC News Index No. 1-12
Three Warp-twining Braids
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