Hemp Jewelry Designs

We are going to make the wrap knot or gathering knot, as it is sometimes called. This one is kind of long.

Bare with me, this was kind of hard to get good pictures to explain this!

The red hemp is the knot bearer and the natural hemp is used to make the wrap knot.

Step 1:

First cut a short length of your knot making hemp and then form a loop with a long end.

Step 2:

Set your looped hemp over your knot bearer and with the long end begin to ‘wrap’ it around the knot bearers AND the loop that you made. In the picture I made the first two loops (shown at the bottom) loose so that you can see how it ‘wraps’ around all the hemp. Also, when you set your loop over the knot bearers, make sure that you leave a tail at the bottom before you start to wrap around (you can barely see it in the picture behind the red hemp), you will use this hanging piece of hemp at the end. Keep wrapping for the length of knot desired.

STEP 3:

When you get the length of knot you want, you are going to take the hemp cord you wrapped with and put it through the loop.

STEP 4:

Then you will pull the bottom cord (that you left hanging in step 2) slowly, and that will pull the loop at the top down through the wrap knots that you have made and cause the loop and cord that went through it to come down into the wrapped cord. Gosh, did that make any sense at all?? If you have left over cord hanging out of the top, you can just cut it off. By pulling the loop down into the wrap knot it secures it so that it doesn’t unravel.

STEP 5: It should look something like this.

See how I have a natural colored cord on the top going up and then a natural colored cord at the bottom going down? This is how it will look after you have pulled the loop down into the ‘wrapped’ knot u made. Cut the top natural cord and the bottom natural cord flush with your knot and your all set.

To see a better picture of the finished knot, you can look at this hemp necklace

I hope this was clear as mud. If you have questions please ask, I will do my best to help you out. I really like this knot, it can be decorative or it can be used as a closure for a piece of jewelry. The knot bearer cords inside the wrap knot can slide, that is why it can be used as a closure.

Thanks for reading. Happy Knotting

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Here is my attempt at showing how the half hitch knot is made. This is the first step in learning how to make the “zig zag” looking knot.

This hemp knot is actually pretty easy. I have a pic here with numbers by the steps in order in which you tie the knot.

The natural colored hemp is your knot bearer. The read one is which you will tie the knot.

Step one: Take the read hemp and go OVER the natural hemp.

Step two: Form kinda a loop with the read hemp and then go UNDER the natural hemp.

Step three: Place the red hemp OVER the start of the loop before pulling it tight to tie. Here is another picture showing the hemp almost tied.

Last step is to pull the knot tight. That is it!! Simple simple simple. (Unless my directions aren’t very good lol)

Now to tie a Double Half Hitch knot, you will just repeat the process that you just did with the same knotting cord.

Happy Knotting

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Next is the square knot. If you can tie your shoes, you can tie these knots.

The square knot is two half knots together! You are just going to reverse what you did with the half knot.

Lets see if I can explain this. (Instructions are not my best suit!)

Step 1: Tie a half knot, and now you are going to take your left knotting cord (blue) and take it (1) over the knot bearers (natural) and (2) then under the right knotting cord (blue). Notice, I did not tighten the first half knot (at the top of pic), that is because I wanted to leave it untied for this tut, personally once I make that knot, I tighten it.

Step 2: Now take the right knotting cord (blue) and take it (1) under the knot bearers (natural) and then (2) over the left knotting cord (blue) –it will actually be going up and through the loop created in step one.

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