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Here is another spherical TH Knot, this time with number of bights, adding two leads to bring each
forty facets, AKA Ashley’s #2217, with the same TH Knot to a 5L4B Knot, making it a 10L8B.

1 start winding the cord from 2 mandrel to pin #1Mu… 3 – then down to the right

pin #1uu down to the
continue round the
right to pin #3Ml.
again to pin #3ll…

4 – to the first crossing, 5 – then down to the 6 From here, go under,

over, under, and up to
right to pass under,
over to pin #2Mu…
pin #2uu…
over to pin #4Ml.