

The general consensus about crocheting is that it can be difficult to stop once you start. Generally speaking, larger hooks seem to be easier to learn on, but small hooks seems to work better (and damage less hair) once you become more experienced.

We use a hooks between 0.3mm and 0.6mm and love it, but if you are planning to utilize this technique you will need to find what is most comfortable for you.

Hooks this small can be difficult to find in ordinary craft stores so you may need to shop online for one. The second most important factor is to make sure that you are using a very small crochet hook – 1mm or smaller. Your expertise and awareness of what you are doing will certainly affect how badly it breaks, if at all though. The long and short of crochet is that no matter how careful you are you may be breaking hairs when you use this technique. However, not all dreadheads are a fan of this technique. So dreads that are only weeks old may appear years older. To the untrained eye, crocheted dreads have the appearance of being mature. Crocheting has become very popular in the dreadlock community as a way to tighten up all your dreads and pull in most of the loose hairs on the surface of the dread.
