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9 turk’s head knots
The Turk’s Head Knot is what truly embodies a add decorative TH Knotwork covering to almost
decorative knot for many people, and – oh, what any piece with panache. I will also show you how
magic that term ‘Turk’s Head Knot’ evokes! The to add to a simple Single-Strand TH by inserting
would-be knot-tyer wants to know its mysteries, a second or third strand, as a different colour, to
the novice wants to practice it once again just to enhance the appearance. Lastly, I will show you how
solidify their new knowledge, the practiced knot- to make Flat and Globe-Shaped TH Knots to allow
tyer wants to know how to expand a Turk’s Head, for a more varied use. Be aware that this work is
and there are those who profess to be able to tie not for the faint of heart, but also that, unless you
any Turk’s Head Knot in any fibre all done in hand! try it, you may never know the joys of achieving a
The dreams and wonders that this knot tells! One perfect Turk’s Head Knot, in mat, cylinder, sphere,
could easily fill a book or several books on the cruciform, or any other solid or flat object shape!
subject but we have limited ourselves to just this Here is what we have included in this chapter:
chapter. With that in mind, I am going to show
you how to make many types of this one-strand Cylindrical Turk’s Head Knots
Turk’s Head Knot (TH Knot). We will do this by Flat Turk’s Head Knots
expanding on some simple basic structures – not all Globe-Shaped Turk’s Head Knots
TH Knots perhaps, but close enough that you can
