Mystery Knot
August 10, 2015 4:27 PM   Subscribe

I need help identifying a macrame knot so I can make a necklace.

I have a pendant for which I would like to make a macrame necklace. While on pinterest, I found the necklace I would like to make, but it's on etsy. I did a reverse image search to see if I could find the knot and maybe a pattern, but no luck and so I turn to the crafters of Metafilter for help. This is the necklace on etsy. The knot doesn't look particularly complicated, but I'm too much of a novice at macrame to identify it or back engineer it.
posted by miss-lapin to Sports, Hobbies, & Recreation (5 answers total) 3 users marked this as a favorite
 
There isn't much on the internet about macrame (I searched pretty heavily last week, in order to make this for Gishwhes). Have you tried searching for friendship bracelets? There seems to be more out there for that, and you might get lucky.
posted by kjs4 at 10:10 PM on August 10, 2015


Best answer: Check out this tutorial. You can see the middle part is the same knot as the necklace, and the part that goes around the two little beads can be adjusted to look like the central part of the necklace you linked to. Watch the tute all the way through and just use the relevant bits.

It's not hard, as it only uses a single knot and not many threads. I've made some very similar things to that pattern.
posted by ananci at 10:19 PM on August 10, 2015 [1 favorite]


Response by poster: Ananci-the side part of the bracelet is IT. The problem is from the video I couldn't quite get it. I need a picture tutorial as I'm just a newb.
posted by miss-lapin at 2:46 AM on August 11, 2015


Best answer: For some reason I can't find this exact knot in a picture tute, but here's another video that might clarify things -- it goes slower and the knot-making is very clear. Just skip putting the beads on, but you can see how you use the knotting threads to make the top of the 'x' part, then you cross the base strings, knot them, and keep going to make one whole 'x'. Make sure you pull your base strings the direction you want them to lay.

If you still can't figure it out, PM me and I'll see if I can help.
posted by ananci at 1:00 PM on August 13, 2015


Response by poster: Thanks that video is much slower and easier to follow.
posted by miss-lapin at 6:17 PM on August 16, 2015


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