Handwoven bespoke braid – inspired by Lupins!

Last year the aphids ate all the lupins in my garden.  This year they came up in different places, where they seemed much happier and produced masses of flowers.  The colours were so lovely that, unlikely as it might seem, I found myself “inspired by lupins” – to produce a handwoven bespoke braid based on those colours :

I pulled together some threads and made up a warp to put on the loom:

Actually it was 5 different warps so that I could swap the colours between the blocks. This is the result:

I was so pleased with the result that I wondered what it would look like with some matching buttons:

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