Shares 114 This summer, Aidan and I got into crafting with parachute cord (paracord) and made several bracelets and keychains. We have plenty of cord left, so we experimented with a way to make Christmas ornaments out of parachute cord. With some cord and a piece of wire from a coat hanger, you can easily make this fun candy cane ornament! This project requires adult help, but would be fun to do with a scout group or after school club. I would recommend it for ages 8+.

To make them, you will need: • Red and white parachute cord – we used 325 parachute cord from Hobby Lobby. • A wire coat hanger • Wire cutters • Scissors • A ruler • Scotch tape • A lighter – for fusing the ends Step 1: Cut a 4 ft. Strand of parachute cord from each color. Step 2: Cut a section of coat hanger and bend it into a candy cane shape (adult job!). Step 3: Lay the red and white strands side-by-side and tape the ends to the candy cane. Fold the ends over and run them along the length of the coat hanger.

Then tape both strands to the other end. (See photo below) Step 4: Fold back the extra cord that is left hanging off the end after you tape it down to the coat hanger as shown. Use the extra strands to begin tying square knots starting at the bottom end. The first knot is a little tricky, but after that, it gets much easier to make the candy cane! Microsoft Windows Wlan Autoconfig Service Server 2008 on this page.

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The photo below shows how to make the knots. For each knot, start on the opposite side – this is very important!

If you forget to alternate sides, your knots will start to form a twist. Step 5: When you get to the other end, trim the ends and melt to fuse (adult job!) The coat hanger will show through a little, but this wasn’t a concern for my boys. Aidan said that it made them look more boyish. It’s hard to not have a little bit of coat hanger hanging out on the bottom end. You can file it off smooth, or pull on the whole thing a little to slide the parachute cord down. One side of the candy cane will come out with red in the middle, and the other side will have white in the middle. I love how they turned out!

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We are making the first-ever full size book for a minority language in West Africa. I want this not just OK, but a really nice and well done 'real' book.

I even found a budget for quality binding. So we have page numbers, an index, an introduction, drop caps, the main story of course with many illustrations and captions, we are presenting the author and the illustrator and we are having a glossary. The book is typeset in the visually simple and tidy Andika font, as this language is just emerging into written form, so by definition all our readers are beginners. Quick readers, here is the request Now to help the readers to orient in the book, I want to insert something like those centered book ornaments, to say visually: 'This part of the book ends here.' I am looking for book ornaments which will go naturally with a clear sans serif font (although I guess there are not many out there).

Timewise and for practical reasons, I would prefer to use font-based ornaments, but independent vectors are possible in our DTP tool. End of main request, more context below I tried googling for what I need, but this is one 'where words fail me'. I found a single sans font which is tagged for 'flourishes' but those flourishes are all on letters (characters), and there are no free ornaments, like there are in famous Windings.

These ones do not fit a sans font in my mind, but they are the basis for my searching: Please do not write that what I want is wrong. I want to find five different but belonging-together ornaments and try them in a draft print-out. Of course I am also using generous white space, to separate each part of the book. I just want to introduce some of the classical elements of printed books and see how it will be received. If you do not have an answer appart from 'I do not like it', then please do not answer.

If you have other ideas how to visually divide a book - then I would be interested. Our illustrations were commercially obtained, so I cannot custom-order more for this purpose; since the artist is no longer alive. Update: I just went ahead and purchased the LiebeOrnament, because its non-changing line-weight and simple style harmonizes very nicely with our Andika font. 20 dollars was a fair price - I consider it a penalty and 'learning fee' for not having started this research earlier. Even through this posting and two answers/comments I have been inspired to make our own ornaments/flourishes/swashes for the next book project or whenever I have to structure text in a 'non-academic' friendly way. Thanks to you all. Need some ornaments of your own, something that is free from traditional western decorative curlique?

Theres' one possiblity: All these are capital A characters heavily distorted and repeated. Horizontal and vertical flipping or rotation increases the possiblities. The black and green are made in Inkscape. An A is typed, coverted to path, added path effect Bend and dragged the handles.

Actually the distorted A is the same in the black and green, the repeating only differs. The red one is made in Photoshop. Again an A was typed in BIG size, rasterized, selected the characted area and distorted to polar coordinates.

Then repeated. As a bonus, there's something left from the used font.