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figure 50
Double crown: working from an unlaid end of rope (see crown knot page 57) or from a number of
strands (we have used four in our illustration), pass each strand around over its anticlockwise
neighbour (you can also work clockwise) with the last strand passing down through the bight of the
first strand to have been worked (figure 51.1). This can now be pulled tight, which will have the
effect of making each strand point downwards. Now pull back any one strand and make a clockwise
turn around the strand it originally passed over, and this will return the strand to its original position.
Repeat this with the other strands, passing the last through the now-double bight of the first (figure
51.2).
figure 51.1
