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Chinese Button Knot

As a decorative knot, the Chinese button knot is right on
par with the Turk’s Head knot. Ashley’s Book of Knots calls the

Chinese button knot every name in the book: #787, the sailor’s
knife lanyard knot, the marlinspike lanyard knot, the single-
strand diamond knot, the two-strand diamond knot, and the
bosun’s whistle knot. The Encyclopedia of Knots and Fancy

Rope Work calls the Chinese button knot #190, the two-strand
carrick diamond knot. Kim Sang Lan, in her beautiful book
Knot Craft, calls it a lotus knot, or the button knot.

Left: A zipper pull made with leather
lacing, and other jewelry made
of satin rayon using the Chinese
button knot. Above: Materials for
the bracelets and zipper pull include
satin rayon rat tail cord and leather
lacing.
zipper pull made
of leather lace
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