This a project I did a few years ago after making a few just like it with peoples names on them instead of ‘Scotland’. This was the first as way of a sort of trial which to the trained eye is evident by the uneveness of the braids - turned out to be more differecult to try and keep 28 strings in-line at once. Got there in the end with the others as shown in the second photo but it is a shame that the patterns did’nt quite turn out as expected on the string one.

I could only find a photo of the top of the last one - apart from the pine cone carving, there was also some braiding below it.

Since doing these I have done a few others and are very enjoyable to make - unlike with making braided belts or whips or if using rawhide, I can take my time, need very little force and can leave them for weeks or finish quite easily in a day - plus with fid work they are so much easier to alter incase of mistakes, unlike knots.