The knots we have learned throughout this journey: -Lark’s Head Knot – Square Knot -Spiral Square Knot -Double Half Hitch Knot -Horizontal Larks Hend Knot -Small Macramé Wall Hanging
I hope you’ve enjoyed this journey with me. Together we learned 5 basic knots and then turning some of them into a macramé creation. I hope these tutorial will be helpful to anyone who wants to take macramé crafts into the classroom
Here is another video I found on YouTube of a bigger Macramé craft that uses many of the knots we learned 🙂
In this weeks video I teach you how to make the Horizontal Lark’s Hend knot. I really enjoyed making this knot and found it a lot easier than last weeks knots. I tried filming the close-up from a different angle and I am a lot happier with how it turned out. I also put on a little make-up this week. I started filming before fixing myself up and I had to stop. The lighting was really good, but I didn’t like how it made my face look. I think applying a little make-up really helps when the cameras on you.
I am getting better at uploading the video to youtube, and actually embedding it to my page. I’m not a huge fan of how public it has to be on youtube, but I’m getting over that.
In next weeks video I am going to finally teach how to make a piece of macramé. I won’t be using all of the knots I’ve taught, but you will notice a few familiar ones. The piece I will be teaching will be pretty simple, as this is one I may bring into a class room.
In this weeks video of learning new macramé knots, I tackled the Double Half Hitch Knot. This one a more difficult knot and I needed to practice it many times before I was ready to record myself. I took another shot at the time-lapse filming and this time I filmed longer and it actually worked. Next time I will try and avoid my body being in it and just my hands. I am really proud of how these videos are turning out, and making them is making me better at macramé, so when I am in a class, I will be ready to teach the kids the skill.
This weeks knot is very closely related to last weeks square knot. Please enjoy my video I made showing how to create the spiral square knot. This week I tried using time lapse on during my video to speed up the video when I needed to make a lot of knots in a row. Next time I will make my time lapse video a little longer. Even though I felt like I had recorded a lot for it, when I went to add it on I felt like it could have been longer. I still enjoyed adding it to my video and I hope you do too.
In this weeks video I walk you through the square knot. In this video I used a slow motion effect to allow you to watch it at a different speed. I also had to add it to YouTube to upload it because the video itself was too large, and Youtube was very easy to use.
In this video I will show you how to create the first knot of macramé. This will be the knot that will start all your pieces, so it is very important that you understand how to create this knot first. Practice it as many times as you need to perfect this knot 🙂 I used my phone to record my video’s and created the final product with IMovie. A tip for next video, I will not wear my glasses as I noticed there is a terrible glare on them.
This week I wanted to learn where macramé started. For those who do not know, macramé pieces are made up of many knots. Some can be made by repeating one knot over and over, while others are made up of several different knots.
After doing some reading, I have discovered that no one can pinpoint where it started, but there are ideas where it may have come from. Its origin can be attributed to Arabic weavers in the 13th century who used the knots to finish the loose ends of tapestries . Its origin is also linked to third-century China’s wall hangings and textiles. I was surprised to read that sailors are to thank for keeping macramé knots around, as it was a common pastime on the ships and they would sell and trade their macramé goods, which introduced the art around the world (Modern Macramé).
Photo copied from https://modernmacrame.com/blogs/journal/how-macrame-came-to-be
In the 1970’s, Macramé was very popular and it was very common to see many pieces of macramé in a household. It soon became very outdated and quickly filled the thrift stores. Now, it is now making a booming comeback and is beginning to fill homes again. This is why I have decided to learn how to make macramé pieces. I think it could be a fun easy craft to make for Christmas or Mother’s Day, so children are bringing home crafts parents can actually use.
Cited
Modern Macramé. “Macramé: A Short History”. June 30, 2018. https://modernmacrame.com/blogs/journal/how-macrame-came-to-be Accessed on September 30, 2022.
To begin my journey into the world of macrame I would like to see if I can learn where it all began. I know there are many knots, so my tasks are to find out how many and to see if I can learn them all.
