I've been trying to figure out how to braid garlic that has garlic all the way around, like the way you see it in Italian markets. I know how to do a flat braid. Can anyone help?
Rose
Garlic Braiding
Here's a website that has good pictures: http://www.bloomingfieldsfarm.com/garbrdhow.html
Thanks Cathy,
I've been to that site and the braid they're showing is a flat braid. If you picked that off of the table there would not be any garlic bulbs on the back. The kind I'm looking for has bulbs all the way around the braid and it will not lay flat, you have to hang it. Thanks for your input tho. I've been to every online site I can find & all the directions are for this flat braid. I'll keep on looking. I've got a few months until garlic harvest time.
Thanks again, Rose
Rose.. Did ya see this site? Love how they have them haning as a hors eshoeon the fence.
Down at bottom of page it has the eight differnt designs they make where it says they were commisione d by NBc or somethign liek that
http://www.bluemoongarlic.com/
starlight What beautiful braids!!! The ones on the fence & on the TV show look like the kind I'm trying to make. The ones they show on the table are flat braids. Maybe I'll try contacting Blue Moon Farm and see if they have a source for braiding instruction.
Looks like that was done with a Chinese Crown Knot or something similar. I went looking for a good link to show a Chinese Crown or Lanyard Knot didn't see exactly what I wanted. Do you do Macrame? There is a Macrame Knot called a Chinese Crown you work it upside down, looks square when it's done. I bet you could work the garlic into it as you work the knot.
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Not the best picture, I use the Crown Knot quite a bit to start out my hangers. I like the look of it. This one is a bit rounder than some as I put a slight twist in some of mine to give them a rounder look. It's pretty easy to do once you get the idea. If you went to summer or scout camps when you were a child you probably made a lanyard to wear around your neck using this knot.
Hi HollyAnn
This looks like the right track. I did some macrame about 30 years ago - don't remember too much anymore. I will go to the library & check out some macrame books.
Thanks so much, Rose
Rose are you thinking about coming to the Spring Swap on May 16th?
If you are maybe we would have a bit of time to work on that knot.
Here is the thread with all the info.
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/956527/
I didn't realize that you & your husband are the ones hosting the Swap when I read your information re braiding. I read your notice about the Swap back in Feb when you posted it & thought it would be a great thing to do. I've never been to a swap before and you're not too far away from Pleasant Gap (near State College). Only about 2 1/2 hours. Unfortunately we already had something else going on that weekend and so I never signed up to participate. Really wish we could make it. Maybe next time?
Rose
Sorry that you won't be able to attend our swap, but I think there are more in the planning for later in the year. Swaps are great fun, so nice to meet everyone in person.
At one time Breton onion sellers, known as 'Johnny Onions' used to come round southern England in autumn with braided strings of onions hanging from the handlebars of their bikes. After the war they returned for a couple of years, and I can remember them as a small boy; but it became uneconomic and they faded away. My dad used to plait his onions into strings; but I never learned how to do it.
I think it looks so neat but never trie d it myself