How to French Braid Horse Hair

Braiding is fairly easy, once you know how to do it. You can even use it to make your horse look even more beautiful!

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Horse (for this tip) or just Hair, string, yarn..etc (something to braid)

1. Wash your horses hair. It's easier to handle that way. (plus, once you undo it, it's pretty to)
2. Once it's washed, comb it to detangle any hair. With horses, the hair can get pretty dangled.
3. Start your braiding at the top of the head: Separate a good amount of 3 areas of hair, starting at the head area, either with your comb or fingers.
4. If you'd like, you can recomb those sections. If not, that's fine to.
5. Taking the section of hair that is in the middle of your 3 sections, cross it UNDER to the right, while taking the right section over that. It's a cross action.
6. Take the left section and cross it OVER the right section [the piece you just crossed over] -this is another cross action. That piece should be in the middle now.
7. Straighten out any hairs that are dangled, with your fingers. Once you get the hang of it, you can do it as you go. (braiding hair other than your own, is easier sometimes)
8. repeat the steps over and over until you've reached your desired length of braid. (over and under- cris cross) all the way down until you reach the backside of the horse.
9. Tie it off with a rubber band, string..etc...if you'd like. That's your choice.
10. Finished!
11. If you wanted to have the horse have more than one braid on the neck, you will have to do it in parts. By the time you're done, you will be at the backside of the horse (lower part of the neck) with a bunch of braids, but this way is for one single braid from top to bottom.
12. For the horse tail, you'll only have to do that once for a big braid, if you want or you can do it more than once, to give it many smaller braids. For an active horse, you may want to try the optional tip.

Tips & Warnings

• Optional: Place a rubber band at the start of the tail (near rear end of the horse). Depending on how big the rubber band is (and hair), wrap it enough to have pull/hold on the hair, but not enough to bother the horse- then make your braid. Once you're done, cover the rubber band with a nice bow, or just leave as is. This should hold the braid in place, at least a little longer than without one.
• And keep in mind, experiment with your horses hair. If they let you do this, I'm sure they won't mind you playing ;)
• Pictures from website: http://www.exhibitorlabs.com/article_02c.cfm -Go to that website for more step by step information and other very helpful tips.