Coil knot
How the Coil knot is tied, what it is for, and how much cord it uses.
- Family
- finishing
- Difficulty
- easy
- CordsWorking strands the knot is tied with, fillers included
- 1
- Cord per finished cm (x)Cm of cord a working strand uses for each cm of finished knotting when the knot is repeated in a column (filler strands use about 1x). Used by the cord length calculator; empty when the knot is not repeated.
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- Height per knot (cord diameters)Finished height one knot adds to a column, in cord diameters (a square knot in 4 mm cord is about 1 cm tall). Empty when the knot is not repeated.
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- Used for
- A decorative end stop on fringe cords and hanging loops.
- How it is tied
- The cord end is wound five or six times around the cord above it, then passed back down through the coil and pulled so the wraps tighten into a tidy spiral bump.
- Related knots
- barrel-knot,gathering-knot
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