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                      There are many, many more variations of the         introduction to Pineapple Knots you should try
                      Pineapple Knot to try – so many that I would        to add two colours or more and to incorporate
                      encourage you to try making them for yourself,      patterns inside the weaves. I wish you well as you
                      based on following the central idea of making the   try your own variations on them. Many friends and
                      number of bights the same and the number of         fellow knot-tyers have shown that patterns that can
                      leads two less than the starting TH Knot. Look      be made include zigzag, lightning bolt, ‘W’, ‘X’, and
                      in Tom Hall’s book Turk’s Head Workbook and         even ‘O’ shapes, by using two or three additional
                      Bruce Grant’s Encyclopedia of Rawhide and Leather   strands in the second and third weave. Those efforts
                      Braiding or perhaps online. From that simple        are beyond the scope of this book.
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