Hemp Jewelry Designs

This really isn’t a full pattern per say but it will show you a technique that can be used in making hemp jewelry.

These instructions will show you how to use 8 hemp cords to make a necklace or choker. You can add any type of beads you wish to it, or use none at all. The pattern will speak for itself if you use no beads.

I do not have a finished product for you to look at, but this is what I am going to accomplish with this post.

Step 1:

Cut 8 hemp cords. The length is going to depend on how long you want your necklace. If you want to practice this I would suggest to cut them about 2-3 yards each.

Step 2:

Seperate 4 cords because we are going to work with them first. I used a couple of beads and strung them into the center of the 4 cords. On each side of the beads I made 3 square knots. Set this one aside.

Step 3:

Take the extra 4 cords and find the middle and make square knots until the length is the same length as the first four cords used in step 2. As you can see, in this picture, I did NOT make the second one as long as the beaded one to save me time.

Step 4:

This is how you are going to “intersect” both sets of square knots.

Put the two sets next to one another and use all 6 ‘inner’ cords as your knot bearers and the two outside cords as knotters and tie a square knot. You can see the 2 square knots I made in the above picture. This is where you can add beads or not, and you can make as many of these square knots as you wish to.

Step 5:

Now you are going to separate the cords into 4 cords on the left and 4 cords on the right and make two separate square knot sinnets.

You can make them as long as you wish to. When you are done, then go back to Step 4 and repeat steps 4 and 5 until you are done with this side of your necklace or choker.

Then you will go to the other side and repeat exactly what you just did with this side.

I know, not exactly a good pattern, but I wanted to get this up to show you how you can ‘intersect’ hemp cords to make an unique looking choker or necklace. Plus I was asked :)

Happy Knotting

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