Monday, July 25, 2011

Thinking about variations of micromacrame

cavandoli macrame bracelet I made in junior high

















Yesterday I was curious about the imaginary craft zone where tatting, micromacrame, Cavandoli macrame, and friendship bracelets intersect. Can you use a tatting shuttle to make a friendship bracelet? Can the pattern for it be described in tatting terminology? Possibly, but they are based on two different knots. In friendship bracelets(and Cavandoli macrame) each stitch is made of two identical half-hitch knots (double half-hitch). In tatting, each stitch is made of two different half-hitch knots (lark's head knot). Here are a couple of test projects I made while I was thinking about these types of knots.

friendship  bracelet style knots, using a tatting shuttle
What kind of macrame is it?

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