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.

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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