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Crown knotting
Crown Knotting may be over one, over-two or, for
the ambitious knot-tyer, over-three. The process
may be made clockwise or anti-clockwise or
may be alternated, one layer clockwise, the next
anti-clockwise, then clockwise again, etc. Crown
Knotting may also be enhanced by using alternating
different-coloured cords. Crown Knotting forms
the basis of many other knots and is used here,
in Globe Knots, as much as anywhere else. It is a
technique that should be easy to remember and easy
5 Starting with the last strand tied, tighten up to reproduce, and I have presented it here in step-by-
step photographs to show the start and end of the
each strand little by little, pushing the overlying
strands around the knot anti-clockwise so that
the strands all lie next to the preceding and process.
following strand that was tied.

1 Lay out all the strands radiating from a

6 Keep working the knots tighter, little by little.
central point, as here.
Here we see that the left-most strand has been
tightened (see also that it comes up through its
own bight on top) and that the bundle, yet to
be tightened, requires shifting one of the strands
over its neighbour, to keep the order correct.

The finished Matthew
Walker Knot, with
each strand appearing
at the top coming out
of its own loop.

2 Working either clockwise or anti-clockwise

(here working anti-clockwise), pass one of the
strands over the strand next to it in the chosen
direction and allow it to hang down, or hold it
down.