dread wraps

Hey everyone, I need a little help . Those wraps I see ppl with dreads have on 1 dread, how do u wrap them?? ne1 know what im talking about?? ive seen them made out of hemp (the stuff u make necklaces and bracelets out of) and ive seen wool, thred ect. Can any1 help i would love to have 1 thanks for your help in advance

 

The way I do it is I thread it through the roots and tie it, then just wrap it around, depending on how I want it. If I want the entire thing covered, then just go around and around, and push it together as you go down. If I want just a little bit for decoration, then I'll make a crisscross pattern, and not push the thread together. If that confuses you, I'll draw a picture. With my super sweet paint skills. Yes, I'm secretly hoping you'll say you want a picture. ^_^

 

i kinda get it but gi'ver on the pait im a visual learner so i will under stand it better...... hit me up wit you skillz!!




will this help knott it up??

 

Hey

They really are purple for decoration rather than knotting 9though it may knott at the root quite well as mine has.)

its just the same as the hair braids you get people to give you on the street.

Ues embroidery thread, about 5 times longer than you want the wrap to be i'd say. (or hemp or wool etc etc) if you used a few strands of different colours it looks quite cool.

fold the thread over so you have a loop now at one end of the thread.

Push that loop through the root of your dready so at the top of your dread you now have a loop sticking out one side of the dread and two bits of thread (or double the amount you already had) the other.

Take the two bits of thread and push them through the loop and pull tight. this should(will!) hold it into your dread.

then take ONE of those bits and wrap it around and around the dread. if you know how you to macrame then you can also to macrame knotts around the dread.

if your useing more than one colour then wrap for about 1 and a half cm then pull a different colour out and put the bit you were previously wrapping with into the middle as you now wrap with the next thread.

keep going untill you have the length you want. you can keep wrapping off of the end of the dread if you have thread still dangling down. if you do it about an inch longer (or more if you want) than the dread then take all the bitts of thread and tie them in a knott (as tight to the wrap as you can.. infact it works better if your actuaslly knotting the wrap rather than the loose threads)


HERE you can put beads omn if you wish by just threading all the bits of thread through the center of the bead and knotting (or adding them the way you do with macrame)

hope thats helped!!
Fleassy

 

PS. iced tea gives me the willies!

 

lol ok im drinking some right now im not joking.. but yes it DID help thank you so much. Im still waiting on that paint pic tho

 

Here you have it! hahah. Masterpiece. I am one sensitive artist, man.

 

And the other one. I know you're jealous of my talent.

 

SWEET those are awsome and a lot easier to undersatnd than words lol THANKS. thanks to you 2 fleassy.



P.S. im very jelious

 

yea im jealous too..... *sniffle* where av all m' tallent gone

 

Hey, in my experience of wrapping (which is not very much, but none the less), i've found that wrapping your dreads actually incourages them to tighten... because the ones i've left in for two weeks and taken out feel a lot tigher than they did, mainly at the top end.. but deffinatly its helped in some ways.. plus it looks awesome! take a look at mine!

 

those are awsome colorful

 

just aquick note.. doing whats called a speed wrap ..meanning just wrapping round & round with no knotting..will cause em to just fall apart in no time.. howevr doing macrame type stuff which is really easy & adds a decorative style to it will make it last even years.. i had 1 hemp wrap that lasted 4 or 5 years.. ofcourse dong the knotted style will take longer to put in..but isnt it worth it when it lasts 10-20 times longer?

 

i dunno how to do that macrame stuff but i put a small one (jeez it takes a lot) juss to c how it looks i did it at 1 in the morning and its now 2 so im a lil tired so im gonna go to bed but ill get pics and im puttin a full dread 1 in tomorow so ill c how it works out

 

man, i want a dread wrap!! but no one by me knows how... and idk if i cna do it alone haha my dreads need to tighten up man haha i love em tho!

 

i dont have dreads, but my friend does forest420 does haha but she was on this and i was logged in... so... it was really her saying that.... haha peace

 

i forgot to post the pics!! well here they are i took it out later that day.

 

...Honey, you have beautiful eyes. I'm positively hypnotized.

 

*blush* thank you, you are very beautiful yourself

 

I found another way http://www.goddardkansas.us/troop776/whipping.html its meant for rope but ya kno its close enough