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You have a nice donut bead/stone and want to wear it as a pendant but do not know how to present it better? Today I will show how to make a Cat Claw Knot .

This tutorial demonstrates Spanish hitching, a technique often used to create wraps for various objects. This eye catching method of wrapping is quite rare, but still, very rewarding! This paracord wrap is best using 2 or 3 colors.

The wrap is made by first attaching a cord to the object we are wrapping. He used a constrictor knot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8ixCI9dtC4

This first cord is quite long, we need it as a base onto which we will line up our hitches. After that, slide under the knot gutted paracord strands that will be used for the wrap. After that, we simply spiral the long cord around the object and line up hitches onto it. Tightening can be done every half/full row.

This video demonstrates another ringbolt hitching style called Zig Zag hitching. It is a nice looking style. The key to making it nice and even is as always in the tightening!

The hitching is also demonstrated in the ABoK under number 3610.

This tutorial demonstrates how to do the "Maori lashing". This is a simple technique that produces quite a nice looking bottle wrap. It is more suited to a flat bottle with a narrow neck, such as a whiskey bottle.

Hitching a bottle without needing to pull your rope through.

In this tutorial we tie the 3 pass Spanish ring knot. This version is a bit more intricate as far as looks go, but it is basically tied in the same manner as the 2 pass Spanish ring knot.

The knot is tied out of a 2 pass Spanish ring knot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MazKPm-b1QA

Which in turn is an interweave of a wide turk's head: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlqKtPWHAXk

I have found the knot is tied a bit easier if you switch to a smaller mandrel when it gets a bit tight.

This tutorial demonstrates how to make a Spanish ring knot.

A step by step photo tutorial may come in very handy, you can find it here: http://www.paracordguild.com/tie-spanish-ring-knot-2-passes

This tutorial demonstrates how to finish a braided belt. The author has so far not found a definite, systematic way of finishing braided belts. He had to just sit down and figure one out himself.

See the braided belt tutorial here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdsNSuSB80Y

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This tutorial demonstrates the twill sinnet, found in the Ashley's book of knots. It is a 10 strand flat sinnet (He prefers to call it a braid). It offers a neat look that can be used to make a belt or collar. You can really play around with the color combinations.

How to start this braid at the tip of a belt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9p-KGPqV5kc

Twill is a weaving style. You can see the pattern from the braid.

This tutorial shows how to make an adjustable necklace by using two whippings to tie the adjustable knot, rather than tieing a bulky knot. This tutorial shows how to do it with traditional whipping, but a similar effect could be done with wire wrapping.

Tutorial for triskelion/triangle knot. Done in paracord, but any cord would do.

DIY Macrame Celtic Knot Pendant Tutorial. A woven interlaced square/cross motif.

Macrame owl tutorial, in Russian, but since it is 95% visuals, the language doesn't matter. This design has the interesting features of: (a) tufty owl ears, (b) the wings are joined to the body with half-hitches over multiple cords, (c) the binding for the tail is done with whipping rather than square knots or half-hitches. This makes it a bit more uniform.

This video Macrame owl tutorial, inspired by Harry Potter's Hedgwig. You can customize the color by changing the threads, the bigger size, the bigger product. One interesting feature of this design is that most of the square knots are three-strand rather than four-strand. Another interesting feature is the way half-hitches are tied over multiple cords to tie the wings and the body together.

Fun knot that looks like 8 strand square sennit but is endless.

A floating keyfob with Single Strand Ringbolt Hitch. Matthew Walker Loop by courtesy of Mr. Hennessey

This tutorial shows how to wrap a stone or a cabochon with macrame. This is using the "looping technique", where a braid of square knots is made with loops on either side, and then the cord is threaded through the loops and tightened to hold the cabochon in place. This method is versatile, because one can change the size of the loops to capture larger or more irregular stones. This tutorial itself is rather long, probably longer than it needs to be. It covers not only the cabochon-wrapping, but three different methods of finishing off the pendant/necklace as well.

This tutorial shows how to wrap a stone or cabochon with macrame using the vertical larks head technique. This can be done with or without beads. The idea is that one has two vertical cords, and one ties alternating larks-head knots to these, optionally adding beads between each knot. I've seen this done without beads, but what I like about this method IS the beads, which give it some extra bling.

This is a tutorial on how to make a Macrame flower lace bracelet.

To make this bracelet you will need: 0,5mm waxed polyester cord (or ~1mm nylon thread) 2 cords x 320cm / 126 inch 1 cord x 60cm / 24 inch (colors of your choice)