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the golden rose combinations but was still built up in a similar
Next I show you how to make the Beaudoin Rose fashion. I have named this version of it the Golden
(by Alton C. Beaudoin). The Beaudoin Rose is Rose. Try it – you may like it and it represents
stylised here to show the general form of the knot, a possible challenge to make it with a single
rather than the specific form invented by Beaudoin. continuous strand instead of three separate strands.
His knot employed some different Turk’s Head

1 Form a three-pass Monkey’s Fist and leave one end 2 Form a five-bight three-strand turk’s head with

three passes with the end from the Monkey’s Fist
out of the ball, while the other end forms the core.
inside.

3 Form a three-bight, four-pass tripled

or quadrupled turk’s head with the
end of the line from the previous
turk’s head. if you prefer to add
some florist’s wire covered in green
paper as a stalk and perhaps a silk
leaf or two, you could go on to make
a whole bunch of roses!