Quadruple dread?

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Quadruple dread?

Post by BambooPanda13 » Thu May 26, 2011 4:34 am

I just did this as little experiment. Please disregard the messiness at the top I was using leftover hair that got tangled up and it looks crazy lol.

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This would basically give you 4 dreads per 1 braided area/spot. The downsides I see would be :

added weight to each spot, but I made my dreads thinner than I normally do so not sure if that would help, plus if they were curled the added volume would make up for them being thinner.

Since I just made this one I don't know how they would lay or look installed in the hair.

Thats all I can think of right now. But you would install it at first like a SE and thread your hair through the middle (it creates a small area in the middle where you can thread your hair through). Then you could just braid your hair down one dread like a DE installation.

What do you all think?

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Re: Quadruple dread?

Post by dreadviolet » Thu May 26, 2011 6:03 am

I experimented with three-ended dread once, for my own a-line dreads where the shortest ones at the back needed some volume. Well. It was a funny idea, but once in use the third end, which was a single-ender attached to a double ender, started wander along the dread. So extra dreads need to be anchored into the structure of a dread, otherwise it won't work.
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Re: Quadruple dread?

Post by BambooPanda13 » Thu May 26, 2011 11:29 pm

Ahh I see, thanks for the input!

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Re: Quadruple dread?

Post by [Phexxie] » Sun May 29, 2011 1:21 pm

ive made triple-end dreads before, i anchored them just by hand stitching the SE to the middle of the DE :)
not loads of stitching, just a few to hold it in place

be warned though... a full head of these buggers is seriously heavy, and you will probably have to abandon all your small-neck tops because youll never get them on lol

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Re: Quadruple dread?

Post by rivetlicker_ » Sun May 29, 2011 1:32 pm

I have done the triple ender thing too. SE + DE. They weren't too bad to wear as they were thin, so rather light, but they gave the much needed volume around my parting and the back when I had my microdreads in :)

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Re: Quadruple dread?

Post by Merry » Sun May 29, 2011 5:57 pm

I like this idea!!! I have to try it by myself :twisted:

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Post by MeanwhileDreads » Sun May 29, 2011 8:17 pm

I have triple enders in my hair right now xD
I like my dreads thin but I don't get enough volume so I make triple enders =)
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Re: Quadruple dread?

Post by Zombiæ » Mon May 30, 2011 10:58 am

I think it's a great idea! ^_^ I think you just need to give it a little more practice to make the 'knot' at the top a bit smaller for installs, I guess? :i2:
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Post by filthy_dreads » Tue May 31, 2011 7:06 pm

i experimented with those just after i've made my first de's :D

not for me, but still funny and crazy:D
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Re: Quadruple dread?

Post by Leanna Moore » Wed Jun 01, 2011 6:32 am

I like the look of this!

I make tripple enders often by setting up a double ender, and leaving one side whole, then splitting the other side into two. So theres one thicker dread, and two thinner ones. Gonna try making a quad-ender and see how it works out (:

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