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3 Keep the working end to the left side of the 5 pass the working end from left to right under
now turn the tube top toward you and tuck
the left-side wrap and over the right-side wrap.
the working end under the right side wrap.
the ‘d’ line, by the left index fingertip.
tube and over the left-hand wrap, as shown note that there is now a second ‘mouth’ above
here. We will continue going under and over,
moving from right to left and back from left to
right as we progress.

Former right side – now
passed over by left side
Former left side – now
passed over to right side

6 pass the working end from right to left under

the right wrap and over the left wrap. note
that you have now returned to the origin of
the standing part, seen at upper left in the
4 rotate the tube toward you again and pass
photograph.
the left-side cord over the right without do-
That completes the three-lead, five-bight Turk’s
ing anything else yet with the working end of
the cord, seen here by the left index fingertip. Head, which is the start for this one-pass Spanish
note that this makes a kind of ‘mouth’, up Ring Knot. Now for the next part where we pass
through which we will next pass the working from left to right and right to left again, but this
end.
time we cross over the standing part. Here are the
photographs, using a different cord.