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Braiding Techniques
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Published 2004
Better bread with water than cake with trouble.
—Russian proverb
My Early Attempts At Braiding took place before I got a job in a bakery. I’d hate to see one of those tortured homemade loaves now. I am sure my recollection is accurate: The strands all had a mind of their own. Some were thick as a rolling pin, others looked like pasta, and still others had a complete identity crisis, being overly bulging and anorexically attenuated at the same time.
But I’m sure I was delighted with these attempts; after all, I had succeeded in getting all the strands (most of them anyway) to stay put, even if it was through force and not skill.