Based on 10 years of sample exchanges, this is both a pattern book and a social history. Each of the sixty braids has full instructions and is accompanied by a page written by the maker, one of 42 braiders from around the world. The notes are sometimes personal, sometimes technical, but always interesting, often with details not found in an everyday textbook.
Useful appendices give suppliers’ addresses and an annotated book list.

You've mastered the round braid in the red booklet and now crave variety. Here are eight more structures adapted for the card. No numbers and no re-adjustment moves. You'll make winding spirals, round, square, lacy, zig-zag and flat braids. All are suitable for adding beads. One is designed to be beaded.