I teach 10 practical knots and Paracord basics at various local events and festivals throughout the spring, summer and autumn, and during the winter months I often lead macrame and paracord sessions in several local residential homes and at community and wellbeing sessions.
I thought it would be nice and make me look more professional if had a portable knot board to display.
I teach with black and white cords so that there is a visible contrast between left & right and standing & working ends and I would like to use this concept on the board.
The ten knots I teach will be included on the boards along with a standard whipping, back splice, eye splice, short joining splice and a small selection of stopper knots. I would also like to display some basic Paracord work including Cobra weave, Solomon weave, Dragons eye weave, Fishscale weave, Chain link weave, monkey’s fist and a few different types of zip pullers.
I’ll be using a plywood board because of its durability and versatility along with portability. However, I would like to know what would be best way to fix the knotted cords to the boards?
If the standing end(s) can be left longish (not too long) and the cord/rope to be semi-permanent, I would consider hot melt glue. It could allow the item to be rotated to view the unseen side, and would allow the knot, etc. to be removed if there becomes a reason.
You could put a rope border and fancy carrying handle on the board as well.
At the moment I am considering utilising a 4ft x 2ft piece of plywood for the display knot board. Basically because this is a convenient size for me or my wife to handle, which also matches the modular size of my fete and gala games and slot together plywood flat pack for storage picnic tables.
Alas, due to an ongoing major insurance claim my wife and I had to move into temporary accommodation while the extensive repairs to our house are undertaken. Unfortunately this means all of our stuff has gone into storage and I am currently not in the position to make my portable events & festival knot display board in time for this year’s season. We are scheduled to move back into our house in mid July: it was supposed to be today 02/06/26 after being in this apartment for 3 months since moving out of our house on the 27/02/26.
The good news is that I keep all of my jigged paracord teaching boards in a garden shed and that I took the vast majority of my cords and tools with me to this flat and I can begin my festival season this week as scheduled.