sword wrap

[Yvarg]

i've wanted ot know how the sword handles of the samurai were wrapped for a while now, so im posting this here because i think someone here would know. is there a site with a tutorial or somethign liek that on the subject of it? this is a picture of what im talking about:



thanks muchly

[Takeda Sanjuichiro]

greeneel22 said:

i've wanted ot know how the sword handles of the samurai were wrapped for a while now...

I can do no better than to quote our august host...

admin said:

This link was too good to lose ... so here it is.

How to tie your saya cord:
www.japanese-swords.com/pages/tying_sageo.htm

and of course
How to wrap your handle
pages.prodigy.net/tlbuck/tsuka/tsuka.htm

And Yasugawa-no-ason shows us how its done:
tousando.proboards18.com/index.cgi?board=arms&action=display&thread=1109211629

[Yvarg]

thank you, i must have missed that post....