How to
An Instructable for how to condition and dye hemp rope. Better (?) they list a rope source that I had not heard of before. It’s interesting that there’s a disclaimer at the beginning about using your rope safely, but nothing in the dyeing part that once you use your nice big pot for dyeing your rope, you should never use it for food again.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Condition_and_Dye_Your_Own_Hemp_Rope/ (via)

So, my sweetie, who knows me well, was watching the World Baseball Classic and notices that many of the Korean baseball players are wearing string necklaces, some of which look braided (see left). Are they braided? Are they fabric tubes? Are they something else? Why are the players wearing them? Are Korean men in general wearing them these days? Are Koreans in general wearing them? Is it some sort of modernized tradition (pretty sure they didn’t have those plastic clasps until recently, relatively speaking)?
http://www.mynorthwest.com/?nid=29&sid=143036
http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/mPK_j5RnIMi/World+Baseball+Classic+Tokyo+Day+5/LMyQh3wd2vu/Kim+Hyun+Soo
http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/mPK_j5RnIMi/World+Baseball+Classic+Tokyo+Day+5/yhuOntPINrp/Lim+Chang-yong

Articles
A series of articles (in English at the link) published in a Spanish art magazine by a German writer (?). The topics range from quipus to computer generated but physical Gordian knots.
http://myvisit.to/franz-ost/langswitch_lang/en

Things to see
Seminal kumihimo author, Catherine Martin, who these days braids with gold and platinum wire studded with diamonds, is one of the featured artists at The Goldsmith’s Company’s Summer Exhibition, Creation II. The show is at the Goldsmiths’ Hall in London, England running from Friday May 29 to Saturday July 11, 2009. Admission is free.
http://www.responsesource.com/releases/rel_display.php?relid=46248

Things to buy
A designer macramé chair that has won design prizes and purchased by museums (to sit in or display?).
http://www.marcelwanders.nl/wanders/pages/seaters-knotchair_1_8_grouppage.shtml (via)