This is a tutorial on how to make a parachute cord bracelet with 2 colors.
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*A Quick Disclaimer: In my area, these bracelets with 2 colors are a very popular craft project for kids to make and wear, and most of the time aren’t made for survival purposes. They are, however, still loosely referred to as a “survival bracelet”. If you want a true survival bracelet, make a single colored bracelet – they are much more useful (because after unraveling a single colored bracelet you’d have one long cord, instead of 2 shorter ones). There are many good single color survival bracelet tutorials on youtube.
**Here are the directions, in case you can’t see them well in the video:
*You will need: a small plastic buckle, lighter, scissors, pliers, and one foot of paracord per inch of the bracelet length.
*(So if you want an 8 inch bracelet, you’ll need 8 feet of paracord. Since we are doing a 2 color bracelet, you’ll need half that amount of each color)
*First, trim all of the white thread that is sticking out
*Melt one end, and flatten it as small as possible with the pliers.
*Next, take the other color and melt it, but don’t flatten it.
*Stick the other color inside it while it’s still melted, and flatten both together with the pliers.
*Melt again if necessary.
*Take one end of the buckle and stick both ends through. Then pull the ends back through the loop, forming a loop around the buckle.
*Put the other ends into the other half of the buckle.
*Slide the buckle up to the length you want the bracelet to be.
*It’s helpful to use another bracelet for reference.
*Turn the bracelet around to start weaving.
*Choose which color will go on top (this color will show more) Make an “L” on top with this color. In this video, this is pink (color 1).
*Put color 2 over color 1, then stick it up through the loop made by color 1.
(Color 1 = pink) (color 2 = black)
*You are basically just tying a knot around the two middle cords.
*Then pull tight.
*Repeat this process until you get to the end of the bracelet.
*Once you get to the end, trim the cords leaving an inch or so.
*Melt and flatten the ends.
*If you want to finish it off the traditional way, melt the ends together and to the back of the bracelet. This may take a few tries!
*If you can’t get it to stay, or if you don’t want to do it this way, use this method:
*Put glue on the ends and clamp them tightly to the back of the bracelet until the glue bonds.
That’s it!
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Post time: Mar-02-2017