Reproduction of cultural property braids has been largely depending on the experience of only a limited number of braid experts, while extraction of their knowledge at high availability are needed for the consistent reproduction to be practiced over the subsequent generations. In this paper, interview and eye tracking analysis, using the photographs of two cultural property scrolls, were performed during the reproduction work of the expert, Makiko Tada, and important braiding parameters such as the interactions of ribs with the neighbors and the number of transits were derived. It was found that patterns consisting of multiple color yarns play a core role in the parameter analysis.
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