About dreads and crochet hooks
Dreading Methods
username1234: I'm in need of some advice i started dreading by backcombing about 4 months ago and I used a crochet hook on some of my knots but just once will they still eventually dread up I enjoy letting them do their own thing other than separating them and would hate to start over. I dont think my wife could take it.
the looser they are after the crochet the faster they will recover. if they aren't tight and stiff the worse you did was break a few hundred or thousand hairs
that does very lil to weaken them.. its only when you break those hairs again and again that they get weaker
for example.. an untouched natural dread 1 inch thick can support 1000 pounds (in my case 1 went under the back wheel of the car slamming my head against the headrest hard but did no damage to the dread)
a dread crocheted once might support 985 pounds crocheted monthly for a year and 600 pounds monthly for 6 years 100 pounds
thats still plenty strong to not break
but lets say they crochet 2 times a month for 12 years by this point, 1 pound or less s all it takes to break them
each time ou break a hair it gets shorter.. the shorter the hairs the weaker the dread
crochet only once the worse you'll have is stiff dreads for years that are 10 times frizzier from broken hairs popping out