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7 – to where you can see the two ‘over-over’ 9 – where you meet up with the start cord again.

Parallel the start cord all around for the first
cords, which you go over…
doubling. Make a tuck under the next cord
in this photograph before you meet with the
standing end!

I mentioned in the text above the notion of
the ‘first doubling’. Knot-tyers call repeating the
original lead of a pattern ‘doubling’ it. For some
knot-tyers, ‘doubling again’ means to parallel the
second lead again, making three passes; the original,
its double, and the second pass or ‘doubling again’
of that second double. So a pattern that has been
doubled and doubled again is one that has been
8 – then under and over to
followed around three times – confusing, isn’t it?

the left…

The Four-Lead, Five-Bight
Turk’s Head, doubled.