Fun with Chinese Knotting - Making Your Own Fashion Accessories & Accents

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Ordinary fuse wire can be used

to make innovative hair clasps.

Tie a length of fuse wire into a good

luck knot, then gold plate it. Insert

love beans into the three outer loops.

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Fold a cord and tie a cloverleaf knot

(1) at a suitable place, leaving some

cord length on both outer loops. String

an ornamental bead with both cord ends,

then separate them into left and right

cords. Tie each cord with the reserved

outer loops into a double coin knot (2, 3),

then tie the cord ends into a cloverleaf

knot (4) at the bottom of the bead. This

knot should be tied using the same tech-

nique as that of the cloverleaf knot resid-

ing in the ru yi knot. Finally, make a button

tassel (5). Some light colored cords can

be added to the tassel cords (see step 2,

page 113) for a more colorful tassel.

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To decorate a scarf folded into a roll, tie a cord into a pan changknot (1), then pull both

cord ends to the back of the roll and around it and hook them to the outer loops on the

top part of the pan changknot. Tie two more cords into separate dragon knots (2, 3) (see

Chinese Knotting, page 68), hooking up the outer loop on each dragon’s head with the corner

loops of the pan changknot. Finally, cross wrap the cord ends hanging from the dragon’s body

around the scarf roll and tie a tight knot at the end of the roll. Fold over each cord end and

bind it with thread.

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Tie a butterfly knot with a cord (1). Hide both cord ends

inside the knot body. Tie another two cords into a knot (2)

and string two porcelain beads. Pull both cords through butterfly

knot 1 from top to bottom and string a third bead. Tie each cord

end into a cloverleaf knot (3, 4) and bind with fine thread. To

wear this hair accessory, loop the shorter joined cords above the

butterfly knot onto a strand of hair, then pull the cord ends below

the third bead to tighten it. Cross wrap both cord ends around

the strand of hair and tie them into a knot.

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Fold a cord and tie a pan changknot , but

do not tighten it yet. Pull a cord end from

the hair band through the body of the pan

changknot, string some beads onto it and

then tighten the knot. Take another cord and

embellish the rim of the pan changknot, then

hide all four cord ends inside the body of the

knot.

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Fold a cotton cord and a plastic cord

and tie them into a ru yi knot. Hide

the ends of the plastic cord in the body of

the knot. String three beads onto one of the

cotton cord ends, then attach it to the plastic

ru yiknot. Bind the other end of the cotton

cord with thread below its ru yi knot but

above the first bead.

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