Horse hair braiding or hitching...

I have been sort of enamoured of this art form for a while. If you aren't sure what I'm talking about look here http://www.horsehairart.com/

I bought a book about it and I can do the braiding but I can't finish off the braid with the hitching ... I just can't seem to understand the hitching from a book. I tried to learn this about 5 yrs ago. It was put on the back burner because I got stuck...

I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that it's an American Indian and Mexican cultural art form. I've been tempted to walk into Mexican restaurants and ask if anyone knows how to do this and would they teach me... but somehow that seemed really derogatory to me.

It's been in the back of my mind all this time...

I met a man a couple weeks ago who says he knows how to do it. He doesn't speak English, but his son translated for me. He showed up at Rex's hearing she needed help cleaning stalls. I flagged him down before he left to ask if he knew how. I think he could show me how to do it without language being much of a barrier... I know a tiny bit of Spanish and Furry Husband knows restaurant Spanish... I think between the two of us, we could communicate basic ideas.

Besides, from trips we've taken abroad, where there is a will - there is a way to communicate with other human beings when you don't speak the same language... hands, pointing, using pictures...

He works at a barn near our house and I need to go there to find him. I haven't with the sub-zero weather...but hoping to find him this weekend. I have washed tail hair at the ready...

Could I be any more ADD? Is that quilt ever going to be finished if I try to pick up the art of horsehair hitching?

Ay yi yi.

I'm excited to learn this - I'll keep you posted.