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

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Gloves can be decorated with knot

formations for added elegance. Fold

a cord and tie a cloverleaf knot (1) followed

by a round brocade knot with six outer loops

(4). Extend the middle outer loop on each side

of the round brocade knot into a cloverleaf

knot (2, 3). On completing the round brocade

knot, tie a double connection knot (5) and a

cloverleaf knot (6) followed by a hui ling knot

(9). Tie the side loops just before and after

the right corner loops of the hui ling knot into

a cloverleaf knot (7, 8), making sure the left

and right sides of the knot are identical. On

completing the hui ling knot, separate the

cord ends and tie a cloverleaf knot on each

(10, 11), then bring them together to tie a

cloverleaf knot (12). Tie a second group of

three cloverleaf knots (13–15) following

89

Tie a copper wire into a series of flat

button knots and hook up the two

ends to form a bracelet.

90

To make this bracelet, first cross two

strands of double cords, then tie a

four-layer good luck tassel head. Fix a button

ring knot made of gold cord to the four cord

ends. Repeat the process of tying a good luck

tassel head and fixing a gold cord button ring

knot until the desired length for the bracelet

is reached, then join both ends with a metallic

knot and hook.

91

Tie a cord into a series of flat button

knots to form this bracelet. Hook up

all the button knots with a gold cord, then

sew a metallic hook and knot on the ends

of the bracelet.

92

This upper arm ring is made from a

length of metallic cord with a slanted

grain. Fold the cord in half and leave a small

loop at one end of the ring. Unite the two

ends of the folded cord below the loop and

leave enough length for the lower circumfer-

ence of the arm. Since metallic cords are stiff

and not easily distorted, bend both sides of

the folded cord into a simple pan changknot

shape, as shown above. Unite the cord ends

and wrap around half the circumference of

the upper arm. Bend the cord ends into a

hook for attaching to the loop. Before making

this upper arm ring, do a drawing to deter-

mine the length required as excessive bend-

ing might make the cord snap. If you use

pliers instead of your hands to bend the cord,

be careful not to crack the cord.

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This bracelet is made with a silver guitar string. Fold the string, then twist the fold to

form a loop. Bind the twisted cord end with thread. Tie a series of double connection

knots until the desired length is reached, then bend the end of the string into a hook and bind

with thread. Attach love beans to the middle of each double connection knot with strong glue.

steps 10–12. Then tie a pan changknot (16),

a cloverleaf knot (17) and a pan changknot

(18). On completing the pan changknot, hide

one cord end inside the knot body. Tie the

other cord end into a ru yiknot (19) and hide

it also inside the pan changknot body. Finally,

sew the knot formation onto the glove.

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See page 48 for photographs of applications 89–94.

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