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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