Macramé Knots

Generalities

Macramé is, of course, a significant craft in its own right with arguably more practitioners than Chinese Knotting. Here, however, we are viewing it solely from a knot element perspective. The vast majority of macramé is composed of half hitches and half knots. In fact, the craft of friendship bracelets is done with just the half hitches and the craft of tatting is done with just the double half hitch. It is all in how you use the knots and what material you tie them in. Indeed, a relatively new craft that I like to lump into the macramé pile is paracord bands. Paracord itself is a type of string and you can tie anything you like with it, but paracord bands (usually bracelets but also belts and straps in general) began with the flat knot chain (Solomon Bar, Portuguese Sennit, cobra knot, etc) and has mutated from there into datstaff friendship bracelets (but with less gifting).

Introduced as an additional basic knot in Lydia Chen's Chinese Knotting 2/Fun with Chinese Knotting the creeper knot is a flat knot unit, normally requiring 4 cords, tied with one cord.