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1 form an overhand anti-

clockwise loop with one
cord. note that the cord
ends in an eight o’clock
position.

3 Continue clockwise to pass the cord over the

first loop, under itself and over the bottom
half of the first loop to exit at the four o’clock
position.

2 Bring the second cord from

a two o’clock position, under
the first loop, then pass over
the eight o’clock tail of the
first cord in a clockwise
direction.

The finished Josephine
Knots in a piece of
macramé.

Half Hitch as this, so I will show only a few simple elements to
The Half Hitch we have seen previously, although encourage you to explore this art further. I highly
perhaps not as it is used in macramé work. It acts recommend it to those of you who value delicate
to cover pendant cords that would otherwise be tracery.
exposed, enabling the pendant cords to form a One of the more well-known or famous (in my
pattern like that seen above in the Gold Square mind) decorative coverings, which I recall distinctly
Knot piece. from that part of my childhood spent at my
grandmother’s house, is that of the anti-macassar.
tatting The name alone fascinated me and the patterns
Tatting follows one of the simplest of forms in were even more fascinating. It is a kind of furniture
knotting, and yet achieves great complexity when doily or cover, intended to keep the (nasty) macassar
wrought into patterns with cotton threads. I cannot oil, with which the gentlemen of the Victorian and
hope to do justice to tatting in such a small volume Edwardian day treated their hair, off the precious