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TOMBELAINE Funditor Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 661 france Gender:	The most beautiful sling I saw Jun 10^th, 2023 at 12:09pm It's in the museum of Quai Branly, Paris. I saw it in the website of the museum. Marquisia Island, beginning of the 19e century.
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StaffSlinger Senior Member Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 445 Florida	Re: The most beautiful sling I saw Reply #1 - Jun 10^th, 2023 at 10:52pm Woven from palm frond, if I remember. The islanders in the Pacific do amazing things with palm fronds. I lived in the Republic of the Marshall Islands and had the pleasure of visiting many of the island nations in that part of the world...
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Yfir Descens Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 108 Sydney Gender:	Re: The most beautiful sling I saw Reply #2 - Jun 10^th, 2023 at 11:14pm Good one! Real artistry there.
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Eino Descens Offline Projecting stones with a rope-based device! Posts: 178	Re: The most beautiful sling I saw Reply #3 - Jun 10^th, 2023 at 11:26pm Wow! That is the best I've seen, too. I wonder how long and how much skill it would take to make... definitely a lot! I like how the cords seem to merge into the pouch, and taper down the center of it.
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joe_meadmaker Slinging.org Administrator Offline Slinging Ice is Cool! Posts: 2652 PA, USA	Re: The most beautiful sling I saw Reply #4 - Jun 10^th, 2023 at 11:31pm Definitely beautiful! It's interesting that the retention cord is braided the entire length. But the release cord appears to be converted to a regular twisted cord after an inch or so. I wonder if there's a particular purpose for that.
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Mersa Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Druid Posts: 2547 Australia Gender:	Re: The most beautiful sling I saw Reply #5 - Jun 11^th, 2023 at 5:54pm Yeah that thing is on a hole different level of beauty!! Gorgeous design and quality braiding
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IronGoober Interfector Viris Spurii Offline ...and now, No. 1, the larch... Posts: 1455 California Gender:	Re: The most beautiful sling I saw Reply #6 - Jun 11^th, 2023 at 11:07pm It's interesting that the retention side was braided last.. You can see it in the braid and you can see how they made the retention loop.
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JudoP Funditor Offline Rocks away! Posts: 875 UK - South West	Re: The most beautiful sling I saw Reply #7 - Jun 12^th, 2023 at 8:20am Pretty incredible, one day I may have a crack at that pouch, seems like it would be crazy difficult to make though, managing the fibres going from the centre to the edges.
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IronGoober Interfector Viris Spurii Offline ...and now, No. 1, the larch... Posts: 1455 California Gender:	Re: The most beautiful sling I saw Reply #8 - Jun 12^th, 2023 at 1:11pm It's unclear to me how they managed the non-fishtail braid sections, are those flat areas braided too, just a flat braid?
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Reply #9 - Jun 12^th, 2023 at 1:59pm

IronGoober wrote on Jun 12^th, 2023 at 1:11pm:

It's unclear to me how they managed the non-fishtail braid sections, are those flat areas braided too, just a flat braid?

It looks woven to me. My guess is that they bring strands out from the central main braid to form both the warp and weft of woven sections, the warp must rejoin the outer braid, or pass through it and go backwards to the pouch centre.

Unless you are referring to the central braid which goes into a sort of wider, repeating fishtail. This is not actually too challenging to do IIRC, but the transition could be tricky.

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