Here you will find the Lashing Tutorial you need! You will learn how to create beautiful and functional necklace cords and lashings for your pounamu (greenstone or jade) pendants. Our techniques do not always rely on holes in the pendants, making them perfect for a variety of shapes and sizes. With our easy-to-follow video instructions, you’ll be a lashing pro in no time!
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How I Bind a Pounamu Hei Toki – Lashing Tutorial
Discover how to create a secure and beautiful binding for your pounamu hei toki pendant. This technique respects traditional Māori methods while providing a strong, flush lashing for your precious stone.
How to Lash a Māori Hei Toki (No Hole Required)
Discover a beautiful and traditional way to create a secure and functional cord for your pounamu (greenstone/jade) pendant. This technique preserves the integrity of your precious stone as it doesn’t require drilling a hole. It’s a wonderful way to honor the Māori heritage and the original purpose of these tools.
How to tie a whipping knot for a greenstone pendant
Learn a specialized whipping knot that offers superior strength and won’t unravel. This intricate technique is perfect for anyone working with cords and ropes.
How to do a koru lashing
Lashing Tutorial: This is a lashing that would fit on any carving with a bar, like on this koru, or an open koru too. It is similar to the ring bolt lashing I have used before also. I use this for my pounamu jade pendants binding.
How to Lash a Pounamu Koru or Bar – Lashing Tutorial
This is one of the ways I lash or bind my pounamu and jade koru. It can be used on any pendant with the similiar shaped part for lashing, even open ended koru are fine as the friction will keep it in place.
How I Tie a Ringbolt Lashing
Lashing Tutorial – How to do a ringbolt lashing on a pendant. This is a pounamu pendant, pounamu from Fiordland, Hapopo type I have heard it called.
No Hole Snood Lashing for Fish Hook
This is how I worked out the best way to lash or bind a fish hook or hei matau carving. I use Jade or Pounamu for mine. It has no hole which I like as the binding is functional then and does not weaken the attachment with a hole. The hei matau has many different ways to do a lashing on it, this is the best I could work out that I was confident would not come undone or unravel.
How to tie a Toggle and Loop Necklace
Learn how to replace the toggle clasp and create a new adjustable loop on your necklace. This technique is great for refreshing old necklaces or customizing the length.
How I Make or Replace a Necklace Cord for a Pounamu
There are many ways to make a neck cord for a pendant whether is be pounamu, jade, bone, metal, plastic, gold, silver etc. This is what I do. This method is strong and durable, and adjustable.
How I Make a 3 Strand Plait Braid for Necklace Cords
Learn a simple braiding technique that’s super strong and great for making necklaces, lanyards, and more. This video is perfect for beginners!
Materials: 3 strands of cord, string, or nylon An optional weight to secure your braid
How to Tie a Māori Roimata Lashing – Lashing Tutorial
This is how I tie the lashing or binding for my māori pounamu pendants that I carve. The carvings that I use this for are kuru, tear drop, and some hei matau or fish hook shapes.
How to Tie and Adjustable Sliding Knot for a Cord Necklace
This is how I tie all my necklaces for my nz jade, greenstone, pounamu pendants. I use two whippings to tie the adjustable knot the second is the tricky one. It is a good low profile technique for connecting two ends of a necklace with an adjustable knot.