Bowknot hanging ornaments are also a common knot ornament in Chinese knots. Bow knots are generally derived from long knots or tuanjin knots. They are simple to make, beautiful, and have auspicious meanings, so they are deeply loved by people. Here, the editor will teach you how to make simple bow decorations. Let’s take a sample first and let everyone experience it~~
1. We fold the rope in half and divide it into two left and right ropes
2. Let’s make the rope on the right first, make a loop downwards, and fix it with a bead needle (the green star represents the running rope)
3. Let’s continue to make a circle upwards and counterclockwise, pressing the rope on the right (pressing means the rope is on top of the knot)
4. Let’s do the second step and pick one out (picking means the rope is under the knot, look at the picture carefully)
5. Press one, pick one, press one, pick one out
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6. Adjust the rope to form a double-money knot
7. Next, we still use the right rope, fold it in half, pick one, press one, pick one, press one, do it up and down twice, the right rope is finished, we fix it with beading needles
8. Let’s start with the left rope, all up, all down
9. We make a circle with the rope downward, and the rope should be under the circle
10. Let’s do it again, all up, all down
Let’s take the rope from under the circle we just made (pick two)
Press one more, pick one, press one, pick one, press one out
Adjust the rope to form a double-money knot
We still use the left line, pick one, press three, pick one, press three, go up, and when we come back, pick two, press one, pick three, press one, pick one out
Repeat step 14 we need to do it again
Okay, let’s finish all the lines first
We started to adjust the thread slowly, first tightening the knot in the middle
Look, there is a four-row long knot in the middle
Let’s pull the rope evenly, haha, doesn’t it look like a butterfly?
We will then adjust the butterflys ear wings to a suitable size and braid a double link to complete it. Look at it now, it looks like a beautiful butterfly about to fly
Extended reading:
1. Tutorial on hand-knitting Chinese knot pipa buckle
2. Basics of Chinese Knot: Illustration of Lock Knot Knitting Method
3. Illustration of the hand-knitting method of the Tuanjin knot in China
4. Basics of getting started with Chinese knots: Illustration of the diamond knotting method
5. Illustrated tutorial on how to knit Chinese knots
