Designers, such as Candie Cooper, who used it in her Sunny in the Outback necklace for Stringing Summer 2009,make me want to run out and buy a whole host of cord colors. It adds a different texture to jewelry patterns and is quite inexpensive. If you don’t use cording that often, you might want to consider incorporating it into your stash. Tying a sliding knot is a little tricky, but is a great technique to add to your bag of tricks especially if you use leather or satin cording.
It looked great with my purple bell-bottoms and Holly Hobbie sweatshirt. I loved this bracelet and wore it until it fell apart.
SCAFFOLD KNOT HOW TO
It wasn’t until Al came over again to show me how to slide the knots toward each other to loosen it, away from each other to open it, that I could put it on. It had a sliding knot clasp that I’d never seen, and my exotic deprived family members certainly weren’t any help. I had a hard time figuring out how to put the thing on, though. They felt very exotic and, in our family of seven kids, there wasn’t a whole lot of exotic to go around the table. The beads were plain: dark brown, wooden, with one simple circle carved into each. But at the time I thought this bracelet was magical. Knowing what I know now, the bracelet probably came from a street vendor who had a thousand of them for just céntimos a piece. I received a leather cord bracelet with large wooden beads. You know, the kind who walks in the front door unannounced, opens the fridge, and asks, “What’s for dinner?” Al was like a brother to all of us, and when he took a trip to Peru he brought back gifts for the entire family. When I was about 8, my brother had a friend, Al, who was just like family. And, as often happens in the middle light of a groggy dawn, I had the most wonderful memory regarding a sliding knot. Oh, I’d learned how to string macaroni on yarn and fell in love with the beading process pretty early on, but I’m talking about really falling in love with the beads themselves. 288pp, 20 x 25.8cm.Ĭlick YouTube icon to see this book come to life on video.I was lying awake in the dark this morning thinking about the first time I really fell in love with beads.
SCAFFOLD KNOT FULL
Beautiful modern design, highly illustrated with full colour photos and instructive diagrams, a quite spectacular book. The decorative knots are quite beautiful like the Multi Plait Chain Splice and the Turk's Head bracelet. And you don't want to miss the 'soft' Shackle which is said to be 15 times stronger than its steel equivalent. Once you've learned the basics you will be entranced with the knots themselves - the reliability of the Triple Fisherman's Knot, the elegant simplicity of the Knute Hitch, and the sheer ingenuity of the Poldo Tackle to name just a few. Over 200 knots are scored for strength, reliability, ease of tying and untying and step-by-step photographs take you through your paces for making the Indian Jug Handle, the Prusik Bottle Sling (useful for steadying that wine bottle aboard!), the Double Overhand Knot, the Scaffold Knot, the Spanish Bowline to spread the load when lifting something heavy, an adjustable loop, a slip and nip loop which is a jolly useful, all-round noose or a single stopper used on the end of a really large line that may be too stiff to bend around. The complete and definitive bible of knots for seafarers featuring all the knots, hitches, bends, splices, whipping and decorative knotwork that you would find on a boat.