the tie that binds

I was fiddling around with making machined cords last night. The pink and green cord is space dyed silk ribbon from carma.biz stitched around a solid woven cord inner core. The blue/purple is some fiber I purchased from joggles.com and is also wrapped around woven cord, as is the variegated pink on the right, which is just some commercially made grosgrain ribbon. Along the bottom of the photo is a double layer of hand-dyed viscose gimp from stef francis. These I just machined together without anything wrapping them.

Here's a little closer shot. You can see the unfinished edges of the silk ribbon, which I think adds texture and makes the cord more interesting.

As usual when I make things like this, I have no idea what I will use them for, but they're bound to come in handy sometime.

Thanks for the comments on my doors blogpost yesterday, especially from new posters. (You oldtimers know I love you already, I hope!)