Friday, August 14, 2015

Knot Work

 This is the first knot I tied when I decided to start doing knotwork.

I do not recommend starting with something this complicated. I was pausing and rewinding the video a lot.

The video I learned this knot with is: A Long 4 Bight Paracord Turk's Head Knot (video) by Stormdrane. He also has some stuff on: Instructable - DIY How To Make Instructions (videos and written instructions with photos).

Some more great sources are:
TyingItAllTogether (videos).
"Ashley's Book of Knots" by Christopher Ashley. This book was written in the 1940s and is still a very comprehensive source of how to tie knots.

Oh, I almost forgot to say that I did this one in May of 2013.

In case you are curious it is tied around a case for reading glasses.