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

Fun with chinese Knotting-(Berkeiey)

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Fun with chinese Knotting-(Berkeiey)

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FORMATION SKILLS 17

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Direct hook-up

Two knots can be directly hooked up through their outer loops to create a formation

or to hold them in position in the formation. Hook-up can be done through corner

loops, as shown in diagram 22, or through all the outer loops, as shown in diagram

23. When extending loops, hook-up can be employed on all the extended loops to
    form a knot, as shown in diagram 24.

Double coin hook-up

This method is much the same as the direct hook-up, except that two knots are

hooked up by tying the outer loops of the two knots into a double coin knot, as

in diagram 25. To achieve this, it is necessary to first form the outer loop of the first

knot into a figure eight before introducing the outer loop of the second knot into the

figure to produce the double coin.

Rim embellishment hook-up

As shown in diagram 26, in the rim embellishment hook-up method, two knots are

tied, then the cord ends of one knot are tied to the two sides of the other knot, there-

by hooking up the two knots and achieving an embellishment effect at the same time.

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See project 128 on page 157 for instructions on

making this knot formation.

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