March 31, 2026 - BraidersHand has been sold and is moving to Eugene, Oregon! We are finishing up current equipment orders. Production on new equipment will begin again on May 1^st. Please feel free to place orders anytime. Orders of threads, books, and Disks, Plates, and Octo Plates will be shipped through April 10^th.

Selling BraidersHand is with mixed feelings of both melancholy and enthusiasm for both Janis and myself. We feel honored to have been able to provide kumihimo equipment for almost 25 years and we also feel honored to have worked with the best customers we could have imagined. Thank you all so much!

We have had the great fortune of finding (well, they found us) two people of like mind who want to carry this tradition of craftsmanship and service forward, they are Jim and Debra Semrau. Jim and I have been working together in my shop on and off for the last couple of months as he becomes familiar with all things BraidersHand. He has the same devotion to quality craftsmanship that I do and will be able to pick up where I leave off without you noticing. Debra is looking forward to working with our wonderful customers and has been in constant touch with Janis, absorbing the mountain of kumihimo information that Janis has to offer. Janis will be on call to help with questions for the indefinite future. We aren’t going away, it’s just that my body is saying (at 83) that it has had enough repetitive stress for one lifetime. We feel extremely fortunate to have been found by these two excellent people to carry this tradition into the future. ~~ Dave