WRT my instructions for a no-fail weaver's knot: a couple of people have asked about turning the knot over. I think that step is there because of how I thread the end of the 'broken' thread--the purple--through the slip-knot loop and then hold that end. As I think about it, I can't come up with any reason why the purple thread can't be equally well anchored if it is pulled "down" instead of "up"--those directions are only relative to the pillow and shouldn't matter to the thread.
So I just make a series of weaver's knots without turning the slip knot over, and they hold fine. The main thing is to pull the two ends of the 'new' thread away from each other so the broken thread can pop up and the slip knot tighten beneath it (Steps 5 and 6). Having been prompted to think more critically about this, I conclude that turning the knot over is mere superstition and not the real reason my knots are holding. :-) Chagrined, I have deleted Step3 from the photos on Flickr. Thank you very much to the lacemakers who commented in response to my posting, and asked about this particular point! Nancy Connecticut, USA On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 11:34 AM, N.A. Neff <[email protected]> wrote: > ... > These photos have been uploaded to Arachne2003 on Flickr, into the album > "Weaver's Knot". > ... - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
