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Starting with the 3L4B TH, we can expand it by any even number are divisible by the number two and
the same process to 3L7B, 3L10B, 3L13B, etc. therefore impossible with one strand, according to
By so doing we can create almost any Three-Lead the law of the common divisor), so we must expand
TH Knots we wish, just by having the right start the knot before we have formed the final start. What
configuration. I wish it were that easy for all the this means is that we have no way of forming the
TH Knot progressions! This brings us next to the expanded knot after forming the base knot as we did
expansion/progression of the Start D TH Knots. for the Three-Lead knots, where we could add more
The process for a Four-Lead TH Knot start is to bights. To increase (expand) the bights of knots
expand an Overhand Knot. Because the Four-Lead built on Start D, we instead simply add another
has no even-numbered bights (the number four and Overhand Knot tuck at the start, as shown below.

4L7B th knot increasing from 4L3B

1 start with an overhand Knot. 3 Bring the working end around to the right and

tuck up to the left.

2 Make another turn, left to right. 4 tuck down to the right, being sure to keep the

tucks a little loose.