Where can I get braiding supplies (leather lace, snaps, etc.)?
Leather lace can be purchased in small lots from pass-through catalog operations such as Hide Crafters or Tandy Leather Factory. I buy mine from Mac Lace, Pty, Ltd, in Australia. (If you don’t speak Australian, Texan is close enough. If you are “from up north” you may have problems.) See the Links page for some of the above. Try the fishing supply houses for the snap swivels. As for core material, I once bought some nylon cord from a well-known, or at least well-advertised, Dallas hardware store. The young salesman marked the sack “200 ft nylon chord.” I put the sack up to my ear and listened but heard nothing. Apparently I don’t have an ear for modern synthetic music, or shooting shotguns really does damage ones ears (or both). Anyhow, I cut that batch up into smaller chords (12 bars) and jazzed up some lanyards!
