Macrame Butterfly Knot

The chinese butterfly is a combination knot made with both the mystic knot pan chang and the josephine knot double coin.

Macrame butterfly knot. It comes in different sizes colors and twists. In this tutorial we used a 3 16 cotton cord sold as rope for clotheslines. The double butterfly knot. Larks head knot use this knot to place a string on an object such as a wooden stick or ring.

Butterfly knot wall hanging handmade by the macrame sisters one of a kind. You must know how to tie both knots easily or this macrame pattern will be difficult for you to complete. Here s what you ll need to learn and practice your macrame knots. This subreddit is a community within reddit that is focused on macramé sharing patterns helping beginners constructive criticism and sharing finished projects.

Good luck and have fun. Other macrame butterflies made using a similar pattern. Wooden dow rod cotton rope cotton yarn colors. Most of these projects only use macrame cord and a few other supplies.

These will help you place your string and create patterns. Use these basic macrame knots to make these projects today. The square knot is central to macrame but its worth getting to grasp with the others to expand the range of items you can make. This can be just about any kind of cord twine or rope made out of cotton hemp jute or synthetic material.

It is based on the butterfly in jd lenzen s book. How to knot a butterfly by macrame. 12 inch rod material. There are free macrame patterns for traditional macrame items like plant hangers and wall hangings as well as some unique items like trivets keychains table runners curtains and even chairs and chandeliers.

Free arrives in 7 10 business days size. So it offers the same non collapsible knot with the advantage of offering two slip points at once. Use your imagination and various knots combinations and you will create different types of macrame butterflies. Body and wings are made with the macrame square knot technique which is also called cobra knot or solomon s knot.

The pattern and some of the images used for this project are courtesy of anna krauze macrame 1987 uzbekistan. And the head is a 2 strand diamond knot. As the name suggests the double butterfly knot is similar to the regular butterfly knot with two side by side loops instead of just one. There s an absolute wealth of free macrame patterns and knots on here that are just waiting to be discovered by you.

Square knot diagonal knot come by and say hello. How to make a macramé butterfly.