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recommend that, unless you are sitting with a make and insert a
teacher or instructor of Chinese Knotting who 3 third loop through the
can guide your every move, try these knots first second one.
by pinning them to a board and then tightening
them little by little to achieve the final shape. The
final shape is all that will eventually be seen, so
it is toward this elegant shape that you should
steer when trying these more complex looped and
wrapped structures.
There are four underlying methods of tying the
fourteen basic Chinese Knots, according to Lydia
Chen. They are: 4 make the end
of the cord
Pulling and wrapping of outer loops, using those pass over,
intertwined loops as an extension from the centre; under, under,
Flat knots, developed from flat knots either as under…
Reef Knots or as Granny Knots;
Overlapping outer loops, using the Carrick Bend
form;
Using S-curves to make opposing half-loops on
either side of a knot.
The fourteen basic knots she describes, together
with photographs to illustrate their construction,
are as follows.

type a: pulling and
Wrapping outer loops

Cloverleaf Knot
by interlocking inserted loops to produce a knot 5 – then pass over, over, under, over to finish,
You will find instructions for three types below. The
pulling each loop tight around the preceding
first is the standard Cloverleaf Knot. It is formed
trapped loop. then adjust everything, to bring
that has interlocking centre parts and outer loops the loops to the size you want or need.
that may be connected to other knots or to pieces of
jewellery. Here is the sequence of making a standard
Cloverleaf Knot:

form two loops and insert the A standard three-lobed Cloverleaf knot made with
1 & 2 second one through the first. red cord.