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the ring knot (garakji
maedup)
The Ring Knot is known to Western tyers as the
Turk’s Head Knot. This one is a four-bight, three-
part Turk’s Head, tied as a ring and then formed
into a ball, an unusual and welcome step. The Ring
Knot is formed on the fingertip and is called the
Ring Knot for that reason. It may be formed like the
Turk’s Head into a cylinder, a flat mat, or, as here,
into a ball.

3 tuck the right-hand end of the cord to the left

and then pass it over and under as shown from
left to right.

1 Wrap the cord twice around your first finger.

4 rotate the ring toward you at the top to show

the second ‘X’ and pass the end of the cord
from right to left over and under as shown.

2 slip the right-hand loop across the left-hand 5 slide the ring off your finger, here showing the
same second ‘X’, and pass the end of the cord
from left to right over and under. the cord
being held on the left is the starting cord. note
loop to make an ‘X’ in front.
that the passed cord now lies alongside and to
the right of the starting cord, like a pair of
parallel railway tracks.