Here begins the
tutorial for the fob shown in the centre of the display.
The mandrel used is
two standard wine corks glued end to end and the core is a 25m.m. wooden bead.
The diameter of the
mandrel must be greater than that of the core otherwise the
bead may not go into the knot. Therefore I've wound a piece of card around the
mandrel which gives it a diameter of 28m.m. and I've found this to be ideal for
this size of core.
The finished covering
is simply a column of 4-strand square sennit grommets woven into a doubled
3P*5B TH.
The TH is laid down
so that there are no crossovers in the centre.
Place coloured pins
as shown in the photo.
Both ends are the
same except that the bottom pins are offset to the right by half a bight space
as for a TH with an odd number of parts.
The red push pin
indicates the top of the mandrel.
For the TH I'm
using 1.4m.m white venetian blind cord as it renders easily through the 11
grommets which comprise the horizontal work. Here is the run list for the TH.
Starting at the top
white pin,
DOWN around
white and green
UP around red
and yellow
DOWN around
yellow and blue
UP over at white
and around green
DOWN over at
green and around red
UP over at
yellow and around blue
DOWN over at blue and
under at white
UP over at green and
under at red
DOWN over at red and
under at yellow
UP over at blue and
under at white
This completes the first
pass......
The knot is now
doubled which gives 20 vertical parts of white into which the grommets can be
worked.
Cut four 2m. lengths
of different colours.
Here I'm using
orange, navy, green and yellow.
Take orange up
through the bottom and bring it out at the compartment above the lower green
pin.
Working from right to
left, go O2, U2, O2....... and finish as shown in the photo.
Similarly, bring navy
up in the compartment below the top blue pin and work a 2-strand common grommet
as shown, finishing as shown.
Next, turn the mandrel upside down and come up through the centre with
green in the compartment shown,
(1) Come straight down over navy and under orange.
(2) Over two white, under navy and under two white. (working from
right to left).
Repeat these two steps throughout. Make sure green goes under the
standing part of orange and over the standing part of navy when these points
are reached. Finish as shown coming down alongside the standing part of green.
With the yellow cord, come up through the middle in the compartment
shown.
(1) Come straight down under navy and green and over orange.
(2) Over two white, under orange and under two white.
Repeat these two steps throughout.
Come under the standing part of
navy when you reach this point.
You will go over both parts of orange naturally
at the point where they meet. Finish with yellow similar to green and that is
the grommet finished.
Continue until there are 11 grommets, working them down tightly
together.
Then take the 4 ends out through the top, remove the pins and take
out as much slack as possible from the TH while still on the mandrel.
This will hold everything together when the knot is removed from the
mandrel.
Remove the knot and insert the bead.
Start tightening the white VB cord. You can do this reasonably firmly.
Having done this, take one of the coloured cords and, starting at the
top, take out the excess slack all the way to the bottom.
Next, take another cord and do the same but from bottom to top.
Do the same with the other two cords, top to bottom then bottom to top.
You can now fully tighten the white cord firmly.
The coloured cords can now be tightened for the last time in the same
manner as before.
It just remains now to "roll" the finished fob and add a
lanyard of your choice.
The surface of this knot is particularly smooth, especially when
"rolled" .
The knot behaves well both in the making and the tightening.
The knot behaves well both in the making and the tightening.
