Hi, I’m in need of some help. does any one know of a video tutorial describing the 8 strand globe knot Des Pawson describes in his "Knot Craft and Rope Mats’ book. The knot is tied with 8 strands around a ball and finishes his “Bell Rope worked with eight ends” described on page 39. I’m usually ok at following illustrations but i’ve hit a wall with this one.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. If not this knot then another I could use with 8 strands using a ball core would also be appreciated.
Nailed it! After giving up multiple times, I reached out here, via my instagram account, and to the Man himself, Des Pawson. My pleas were answered and with great advice from Des Pawson and Knotty Mabel I finally cracked it…
Hi Miss_stringsmith, so sorry I haven’t been here for awhile and missed your post. You’ve probably already mastered the Globe knot, if not here are some pointers.
Treat the initial wall and the following fancy crown as two seperate entities. Drag them apart a little so they are seperate from each other. You’ll then see the 8 strands connecting the wall to the crown. Twist the crown slightly to make the connecting strands twist at an angle. Now take note of where the working ends exit the crown, hopefully you’ll see that they have a natural directional lay. Follow that lay and go over the next crossing strand and under the next one. Repeat this eight times so all the working ends have been extended once and your’e almost there. Now you will hopefully see where you need to start doubling. The doubling starts as soon as your working ends re-enter the wall knot. About this time you’ll need to insert the ball.
Hope this helps.
The fancy crown Des describes is ABOK #954, if you look it up you’ll probably get even more confused. You’ll need to also look at ABOK #907 this describes the method of first starting with a Wall knot.
Good luck
PS there are some pictures of my bellropes on my instagram account, look me up on @blood_knot
Nice idea posting pictures but I’m either too old or too young to know how to do that. I’m a photographer by trade but i gave up trying to post images to a previous cycling forum I was involved with. That was awhile back, so I thought I’d try again here. No luck.
