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

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Fold a cord, leave a suitable length

for the necklace loop, then tie a clover-

leaf knot (1) followed by a good luck knot

with four outer loops (6). Extend each outer

loop into a cloverleaf knot (2–5). Bring the

cord ends together and tie a button knot (7).

Pull the cord ends through the loop at the top

of an old coin, then turn them back and sew

them onto the button knot. Make a button

tassel (8) and attach it to the bottom loop of

the coin.

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Fold a cord, leave a suitable length

for the necklace loop, then tie a

double connection knot (1) followed by a

cloverleaf knot (2). Separate out the right

cord end and tie a cloverleaf knot (3). Place

it on the middle outer loop of another

cloverleaf knot (4), then hook up the outer

loops of cloverleaf knots 4 and 2. Then tie

a knot similar to a ru yi knot (8) by replacing

its topmost cloverleaf knot with a round

brocade knot (6). The left and right sides of

the ru yi knot are both cloverleaf knots with

two outer loops (5, 7). On the bottom of

the ru yi knot, tie a cloverleaf knot (9) that is

hooked up with cloverleaf knot 4, as shown.

Then tie another two cloverleaf knots (10,

11) using the same tying technique as that

of cloverleaf knots 3 and 4. Repeat the

steps on the left side of the knot formation

(12–20), making sure both sides are identi-

cal. Bring the two cord ends together and

tie a cloverleaf knot (21). Sew a pair of fold-

ed cords onto the base of the knot forma-

tion. String each of the four cords with a

bead and sew a tiny bead onto the ends.

Finally, insert a big bead in the center of

the knot formation.

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Start this knot formation from the base. Fold a cord and tie a cloverleaf knot (1) followed

by a winged pan changknot (2). Start tying a round brocade knot with fourteen outer

loops (15). Extend the second outer loop on the left into a cloverleaf knot (3). Extend the fourth

outer loop into a round brocade knot with six outer loops (7), and extend the first, third and

fifth outer loops of the round brocade knot into a cloverleaf knot (4), a pan changknot (5) and

a cloverleaf knot (6) respectively, as shown above. Extend the sixth outer loop into a cloverleaf

knot (8). Repeat the steps on the right side of the knot formation (9–15), making sure both sides

are identical. After completing round brocade knot 15, bring the cord ends together and tie a

double connection knot (16) followed by a button knot (17). Finally, sew beads of different sizes

inside the loops of the round brocade knot, as shown above.

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