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51 In making a grommet the principles of the Flemish eye (counter
laying three strands with three corresponding strands and a heart)
Grommet and the long splice are combined and when the circle of the
grommet itself is completed sufficient length of ta ils must remain
to proceed with the long splice, Fig 4.
IWirel A length of wire, approximately nine times the diameter of the
required grommet is needed and three adjacent strands are care-
fully unlaid, leaving the heart intact w ith the remaining th ree
strands.
The un laid strands are discarded and the heart is removed for
equal distances from both ends, leaving a length of heart equal to
the circumference of the grommet in the centre of the working
strands.
The circle is formed and the two sets of three strands married at
the point where the two ends of the heart meet, Fig 1. The right-
hand ends are brought under and up and the left-hand ends over
and down through the circle, fe·forming the six-strand lay as
Figs 2 and 3 and continued until the ends meet and the basic
grommet is completed Fig 4.
The tails are now unlaid. Fig 5 and as illustrated in Knot 50. a
long splice is formed w ith the three pairs of strands, which are
then cut 10 the required lenglh, Fig 6. It only remains 10 tuck
away the ends as shown in Knot 50, Figs 7 to 14, and the
completed grommet appears as Fig 7.