The fluffy pretty little ones are going for stocking stuffers for my nieces to play with on their dress up, the pretty little grey and white cord is for a mesh bag for storage (thanks to lynn for that idea, I like it) and the bigger cord has had a clip added to the end and I have done a loop on the other end, and its become a new hound leash for a gift for a friend.
This one is my first heavy corded out new sheep rope for makinga instant halter, I like it, its strong, soft and flexable all in one.., I can see a number of these being made and at the ready for use, I have a very heavy red cord in waiting for a big one for girl and a dark blue one for marty.. Talk about frugal, these cord came in my big huge wool buying at a farm sale, given that I got over a thousand dollars worth of new wool/cord for eight dollars, I don’t think that the halter cords cost me even a penny to make in materal, vs 9 dollars plus tax for a braided rope halter to buy.. now that is a fair saving for a bit of my time.
I have figured out how to do a nice loose soft cord for necklaces or hair bands, and how to do a very tight hard cord for critter use or for as a hard working cord for different house uses..
Just another Day on the Farm 
Woah, COOL! Okay, so I can see that this lucet thing is a braiding device; but how does it work exactly? Probably could work it out if I had more time to think about it (and actually had one on my hand; )
Funny, I went to school with some boys whose name was Lucette… The French version of your new to(y)ol perhaps? If so, a very old surname, to be a rope maker, that is.
Can you tell us a bit more about how it works please?
Ha! It’s sort of like bobbin weaving or what we used to call “cording”! To do cording (and don’t quote me on it, ’cause it’s been decades since I did this last; ) you’d use an empty wooden thread reel/spool; (gently) tap four finishing nails into one end; drop one end of your yarn down the hole and get hold of the tail in your fingers, then wind the yarn around the nails, til you had two layers on each nail. Then take a crochet hook to pull the lower thread up and over each nailhead. And so on, and so on, and…
Here’s a very interesting link on the technique and history of lucet braiding: )
http://kws.atlantia.sca.org/photos/lucet/
Gotta tell ya, after looking at Lucetting: this would be a whole lot less tedious than using the spool method and, like the person says in the article, there’s no limit to the guage you can make without any hole involved. Not to mention that it’d be a whole lot faster and less fidgety with bigger yarn and no crochet hook: )
Your dog lead idea is definitely one I’m going to be trying. There are tons of fancy leashes out there but they’re either too slippery and tightly woven to get a good grip on or too coarse and burn the hell out of your hands if they slip!
Thanks so much for showing us yet another lost and (almost) forgotten art.
Hi Deb
Glad you liked the post and as you found more info on it, i assume you answered your own questions about it, much easier then using the spool method at least to me.. just finished another present, made a super long soft blue knitted rope and then looped it over five times in slight larger loops and then tied off on the side as a over the top roped artsy scarf.
Love this idea!