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Decorated Carafe

standard glass carafe lark’s head
150 feet of #48 cotton seine twine clove hitch (cow hitch)
sharp knife or scissors
ruler
masking tape

This project uses lark’s head knots, square knots, and
clove hitches to decorate a glass carafe.
Follow these steps to start the project:
1 > Cut a 6-foot length of #48 cotton seine twine. This
will be your base cord.
2 > Cut 24 pieces of #48 cotton seine twine that are
each 72 inches long.

3> Middle (fold in half) each of the 72-inch strands.

On the right: adding lark’s head knots to the base cord.

lark’s heads
(cow hitch)

clove
hitches

square
knots

A completed glass carafe. Carafe with base cord wrapped around its neck.