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Finally we combine the two techniques together
to make the Wall-Around-the-Crown seen here.

Finally, the fully expanded Wall-Around-the-Crown
plait, which nearly doubles the length of the plait
from the crushed version before.

4 Pull the wall tight around the Crown, making

it all snug and tight together. Be sure to keep
some pressure on top of the knot, so that it
crown, followed by a Wall around it, followed by
does not explode upward! Here we see the side view of several passes of a
another Crown, another Wall around it and so on.

Here’s what the Wall-Around-the-Crown (green, yellow, green, yellow) and then with side-
plait looks like when we use different-coloured by-side colours at the start (yellow, yellow, green,
cords, first with opposing colours at the start green):

Note the length of the spiral visible in the two Again the two colours are shown in their made
colours. form, with the Wall and Crown tight against each
other.

The spiral is still there, but now it is longer, with
Here the expanded version of the braid, pulled out adjacent colours at the start and having what
at each end, shows the lovely effect of the spiralling appear as Overhand Knots in the same colour
of colours. along the length.