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now we turn the knot over and go 16 – until you get this rather neat whorl of col-

ours, disappearing like a whirlpool of colours
15a back through the centre into the over-three Crown at the centre, rising above
down into its centre and thus forming an
the rings around the equator of colour.
space opposite where the cord, blue
in this case, comes out.

17 here we see the finished object from the

side.

15b Count over four strands and

continue with the tucking…

The finished Captain Whitney Rose
Knot looks a little fragile, but recall
that this is intended as decoration,
not something to be used as a
Manrope Knot!