#SINGLE STRAND SCAFFOLD KNOT HOW TO#

Interweave can help you master all of the most complex and basic bracelet making techniques to round out your arsenal. Use our sliding knot bracelet instructions to create cool friendship bracelets-the sliding knot friendship bracelet is a classic, after all-and incorporate it into your necklace and earring designs if you want to add a decorative knot and a closure in one. The clean, textured look of the sliding knot makes it great for dainty, simplistic designs. This type of knot allows you to showcase the cord or whatever other material you’re working with without adding an extra material and component that can drain your budget and take away from the overall design of the piece. Why not subscribe to Stringing and be inspired, too?īesides the fact that the sliding knot is used by some of our favorite crafters, it’s also a great way to add that same exotic and bohemian flair to your work. In that same issue, Margaret Sherman shows off a great looking bracelet that incorporates both leather cord and wire, giving me ample ideas for other jewelry making techniques. Designers, such as Candie Cooper, who used it in her Sunny in the Outback necklace for Stringing Summer 2009,make me want to run out and buy a whole host of cord colors.

It adds a different texture to jewelry patterns and is quite inexpensive. If you don’t use cording that often, you might want to consider incorporating it into your stash. Tying a sliding knot is a little tricky, but is a great technique to add to your bag of tricks especially if you use leather or satin cording. It looked great with my purple bell-bottoms and Holly Hobbie sweatshirt. I loved this bracelet and wore it until it fell apart.

#SINGLE STRAND SCAFFOLD KNOT HOW TO#

It wasn’t until Al came over again to show me how to slide the knots toward each other to loosen it, away from each other to open it, that I could put it on. It had a sliding knot clasp that I’d never seen, and my exotic deprived family members certainly weren’t any help. I had a hard time figuring out how to put the thing on, though.

They felt very exotic and, in our family of seven kids, there wasn’t a whole lot of exotic to go around the table. The beads were plain: dark brown, wooden, with one simple circle carved into each. But at the time I thought this bracelet was magical. Knowing what I know now, the bracelet probably came from a street vendor who had a thousand of them for just céntimos a piece.

I received a leather cord bracelet with large wooden beads. You know, the kind who walks in the front door unannounced, opens the fridge, and asks, “What’s for dinner?” Al was like a brother to all of us, and when he took a trip to Peru he brought back gifts for the entire family. When I was about 8, my brother had a friend, Al, who was just like family. And, as often happens in the middle light of a groggy dawn, I had the most wonderful memory regarding a sliding knot. Oh, I’d learned how to string macaroni on yarn and fell in love with the beading process pretty early on, but I’m talking about really falling in love with the beads themselves. I was lying awake in the dark this morning thinking about the first time I really fell in love with beads.

Single strand scaffold knot