Famous Cable Braiding Ideas. As the number of strands increase, the process becomes more and more complicated. Web when you knit a basic braid cable, it'll look like three knitted strands that are braided.

The new instalite lightweight braid (lwb) offers a low cost way to save up to 50% weight over traditional braids. Knitting braid cable looks hard, but it's really not. Web cables are braided for one of two reasons, either to electrostatically screen the cable or to provide mechanical strength to the cable.