My old Girl is being kind enough to be the model to show off some of the new super soft yet amazingly strong knitted (lucet style) slip on in house dog collars. This blue one is a simple two strand of the same wool measured, cut and done into a eight cord. The typical lucet cord will give you a four stand cord, and they are very strong on their own but for the puppise, I wanted them to a little bigger, wider and stronger, so I doubled it. They have a fair amount of give to them, so they slip over the head. 
I made a much more bling one with different strings, and colors, this one is made with four different cords/strings all measured out and done together at the same time.
I got the wool on sale for three dollars for a ball and used maybe? five cents worth, but with tax, and the cost of the lucets plus my time.. what the heck, call them my ultra frugal homemade dog collars made for a cost of ten cents.
I am not going to recommend these for out of house/off farm use, one, because there is no place for your tag to attached and two, because I would want a sturdy place to attach the lead, but my next one is to see if I can make a whole peice, both collar and lead with a loop handle for a nice slip on lead.
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I must say, she looks lovely in the “orange multi” collar. It goes quite nicely with her fur; )
Your collar/lead combo sounds like an “English style” lead. They have a hand loop at one end and smaller one at the other to make a sliding, pull-through loop for over the head. There’s also usually some sort of a sliding bead or whatever that acts as a stop: maintaining just enough tension to prevent an accidental Houdini.
Choco-Louis loves his and walks quite proudly with absolutely zero tension; while Dustinilla is still too much of a gung-ho dumb-arse to use one yet. Perhaps some day he’ll suddenly “grow up”? *Sigh* But I’m not holding my breath…
Speaking of tensioning… How much do you think one of these could safely bear, if made into a leash/lead? The ones you buy are usually made of nylon which is either too slippery or burns the hell out of your hands, should the dog suddenly try to go AWOL. Could wool be the happy medium somewhere in the middle?
Yes, that is the style I had in mind, I honest don’t know how strong it would be, part of it would depend on what kind and weight of wool I use, plus how many lengths I am using, clearly a two or three strand or more is going to be alot stronger then a single one.. Give me some time to play with it, so far the leads have held up to basic use, now to see if the collars do, and then see how the combo’s go from there.
Rope, in the old days, used to be made out of plant fibres like hemp. Would it be possible to use your Lucet for these other fibres too?
Could you use macarame cord instead of wool? Wouldn’t be as soft but might be stronger.
Hi Deb
Yes, anything that can make cord can then be made to be used with the lucet, the only thing it does not recommend is to fine of a wool cord, like angora etc, but bigger and thicker, no issues there, I got a number of sizes to be able to do, very small cord, med size cord and one big one that is for critter cord like halters, ropes etc.
Thirfty Momma, Yes that would work for being alot stronger for sure, I even have some around, will give it a try.. thanks for the idea