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In the Ashley Book of Knots this knot is tied on a having to resort to scissors or wire cutters! You
board, but with a little practice and some not-too- can make an easy and inexpensive frame using two
small measure of dexterity, I tied it in hand. You may U-shaped wires (four legs), inserted up through a
also like to try a wire form to tie the knot around. It poly-foam or corrugated cardboard base.
is a handsome knot, no doubt! An additional single
pass will still satisfy the over-under pattern, so you
will be able to expand the number of passes from
four to six, eight, ten, or more in order to achieve
full coverage. Note that the form of the knot is a
series of circles around the sphere, two circles in
each of the three principal axes, exactly like the
regular Monkey Fist, but using a weave instead.
This first photograph below, just before the tying
sequence, shows the basic structure, shown open
so that you can see how it develops. The series of
photographs after that shows how to make the knot
on a wire frame, using a wooden ball as the core.
If you use a wire frame for your Globe Knot, be
sure you can remove the wire frame easily, without

Ashley’s #2207, tied in 3mm cord around a 25mm core. The
coverage is deliberately sparse, and shows the 3D-structure
clearly!