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Bracelet Buckle

Table of contents
1. Prepare
1.1. Learn knots
1.2. Strings
2. Making the top loop
3. Bottom loop
4. Videos
4.1. Making the top loop
4.2. Making the bottom loop and end
4.3. Making a chinese staircase loop
This tutorial shows you how to tie the bracelet buckle of mine. It fastens the bracelet around the wrist using only the bracelet threads.

Prepare

Learn knots

In addition to the ordinary bracelet knots, will have to learn the macrame knot (you can also use the ordinary forward knot as in chinese staircases, see the video in the end of the tutorial).

Strings

The threads should be a bit longer than when you make ordinary bracelets. Start with looking in what order the coloured threads should be in the pattern you're going to make.

Making the top loop

Start in the middle (as the arrow in the pic below shows) and make some makramé knots.

When you have made some macrame knots from the middle and outward it will look like this:

Now, bend the whole thing:

When you have bent it it should be around 2cm long total, as the image shows. Now, check the order of the threads. Are they in the right order so you can begin on the bracelet? If not, an extra macrame knot on one of the two ends will swap the outer threads and maybe turn them in the right order. The inner threads can be twisted to get the right order. Experiment a bit until the order is right and you can begin on the bracelet pattern!

Make the bracelet pattern length about 4cm less than your wrist circumference.

Bottom loop

When you are done, you continue like this:

Make a makramé knot to gather all threads, then split them into two bunches, as the three images above shows.

Since you have divided all threads into two divisions, continue making macrame knots in two lines. They should both be about 2cm long.


Now join all threads again, and make one line of macrame knots. Finish the buckle with a knot as the picture above shows.


You are done! The image above shows how to "close" the buckle. The protruding knot keeps the buckle locked.

Videos

Making the top loop





Making the bottom loop and end





Making a chinese staircase loop

This is how you make the beginning loop with the chinese staircase instead of macrame knots.





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LEMon44, Cake71, Mockingjay, Purple, Keep_Smiling and 28 others likes this. Unlike
coco 2 days ago
ok how do yu do this with more than 6 strings or an odd number? please help meee really!!!
Kitten_luvr 3 days ago
omg thx soo much to whoever did this i was so confused on how to start the bracelet after the loop and now i do ths a bunch!! :)
Mockingjay 3 days ago
This makes so much sense! I never thought about it before! })i({
brieee12 3 days ago
I did it! my macrame knots weren't exactly correct, I used this tutorial http://www.ehow.com/how_7536_tie-square-knot-properly.html and it came out looking different than the knots on this tutorial. But it still works and now I can easily put on/remove my bracelets! Yay!
SportGeek113 7 days ago
a video would really help, im in sports so i cant just tie the strings in a knot on my wrist cause it doesnt come off... so this would relaly help if i could do it, i just dont understand the macrame knot...
manilla 7 days ago
thanks looks so much easier than some of the other bucke tutorials
Purple 9 days ago
Ok... thats a little confusing. I was wondering if there was a vid about this?
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