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Canada Day 2010
A maple leaf for Canada Day. What can I say, maybe next year I'll knot a beaver or a moose. 8) Both leaves have a hexagonal flower core as the leaf on the flag has 3 big points (with 3 sub points), 2...
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American Independence Day 2010
A pentagonal stellar knot tied in red, white and blue in a tribute to the flag colours and stars. Since I wanted the colours to remain in the same order as they went around the knot, the ears could...
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Book Cover Scans
I keep resolving to scan and review my entire knotty (and braid-y) book library, but I've only done one or two so far for the blog. I have gotten started with scanning the book covers though. Note for...
View ArticleLink Dump Feed: Braid Gallery
Added another new tag: braid gallery.Here's the Google Reader pagehttp://www.google.com/reader/shared/user/13399843360271014998/label/brai...Here's the...
View ArticleLink Dump Feed: Jewelry Braids
Didn't realize I hadn't made this public a long time ago, another tag: jewelry braids.Here's the Google Reader pagehttp://www.google.com/reader/shared/user/13399843360271014998/label/jewe...Here's the...
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Finished Instructions for the Plafond Knot (藻井結, 国結び, 안경매듭)
I've finally finished the text to go with the images for the plafond knot. I hope you enjoy it.On an entirely different note, I wanted to print one of the pages from my blog out but the content was...
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Double Plafond Prototype: More Simple Knots
So, I was writing up the preamble to my instructions for the plafond knot and was thinking about how one might logically expand this knot. It has no ears and the usual construction methods are...
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Double Plafond Prototype: Alternating Simple Knots
Just to see what would happen, next I tied the fourth simple knot in a alternate orientation (right over left vs left over right) squaring things up to see that would happen. Yep, not much,...
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Double Plafond Prototype: Expand and Explode a Single Plafond
Taking a single plafond knot I started manipulating it to see where the spaces in it for alteration were. First pull out the side loops. This makes it more clear the macrame style square knot heritage...
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Double Plafond Prototype: Add Sauvastika
So, I tied a sauvastika knot under the centre of the plafond knot while interlacing the side ears around the plafond frame, and then put the incoming and outgoing cords back through top and bottom...
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Double Plafond Prototype: Intial Sketch
I had my frame around 2 diamond centres, but I wanted the side structures to be balanced. Here's a first sketch (sans-frame) with some cord paths. You can see that even by the bottom of the sketch I...
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Double Plafond Prototype: Plafond Input Output
Backing up a step, I took a second to map the cord paths through the body of the single plafond knot. A square symbolizes what I consider to be the mass of the knot and letters mark the entrance and...
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Double Plafond Prototype: Layout One
So, start by sketching out the 2 centres, one over the other connected, two cords coming in the top and out the bottom. These are the assumptions I started with. So, then there are 2 cord terminal...
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Double Plafond Prototype: Scaffold
Preparing to tie my proposed double plafond knot, I created a scaffold by tying a regular plafond and then tying a sauvastika knot in sequence.Taxonomy upgrade extras: sauvastikaplafonddouble...
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Double Plafond Prototype: Layout Fail
Now, I would like to say that I proceeded from my preliminary layout sketch to a path sketch, decided that it wouldn't work and then carried on to the next layout. But as you can tell from the title...
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Double Plafond Prototype: Layout Two
So, here's my second loop layout thought. What do you think? Will this one work?Taxonomy upgrade extras: double plafondprototyping
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Double Plafond Prototype: Layout Two Trace
To everything there's a learning curve, eh? So this time I followed up the loop layout sketch with a path tracing. Looks much better this time. We have complete coverage, all the inputs and outputs...
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Double Plafond Prototype: Tied on Scaffold
I started tying this knot on the scaffold and for some reason didn't have my bodkin. Slow and painful going. I got to the second pass through the top single plafond before I gave it up until I got...
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Double Plafond Prototype: First Working Model
Remove the scaffold and "tada!!" it works. *happy dance*. The knot is front back symmetric and the sides of the frame are fortunately balanced. I like it. I wonder though if there's a way to balance...
View ArticleDouble Plafond: Instructions and Expansions
I have shown you how I developed and executed the idea of a double plafond knot. From my available information, this was an entirely novel thing. So I posted my new creation to the main knotting...
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