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Thus far, as you may have already seen, the idea or support work of perhaps over-two crowning and
of the spherical covering has a central theme. Go a Matthew Walker, to act as a support to the knot.
back over the patterns shown to see the meeting at First, here is the Matthew Walker Knot in stages,
each face of three or four separate faces in those followed by the Crown and the Wall, so that you
examples to bring about a covering on a spherical have a reminder of how each is formed. Essentially,
object. So it is with the patterns of Globe Knot the Matthew Walker is a series of Overhand Knots
coverings we have looked at so far – they form tied through the previous knot. The knots are
panels with three, four, five, or six sides to them, so stacked, one on top of the other, to form a winding
that the meetings of the cords at each panel junction of sorts around the base cord. When tied in the
point are not overcrowding the face of the panel. individual strands of a three-strand or four-strand
rope, with the strands re-laid after tying the knot,
LittLe Lump Knot the knot is impossible to remove without first
Strictly speaking, this knot is not a Globe or Sphere unlaying the line back to the top of the knot.
Knot all to itself – it requires some lower end base

1 Lay out all the strands you intend to use, made 3 Take the next anti-clockwise strand and tuck it

under all other strands, then up through its own
here with eight strands.
loop after passing through the previous loop.
Try to keep the strands as shown, rolling them
under the prior strand.

2 Pass the end of your first strand under all other

strands and then tuck the end up into its own
loop, to make an Overhand Knot around the
bundle. Note that the knots are tied anti- Here the last of the eight strands has been
clockwise here and that we work on them 4 passed up through the preceding seven loops
one-by-one in the same direction. and then up through its own loop.