Cavandoli macrame

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My journey with micro macrame jewelry got started in 1975 in the back of a pickup truck in Arizona while my future-husband-to-be painted en plein air in the middle of the desert… The only craft book we had with us was a small book on macrame I had bought at at the San Francisco Modern Art Museum. My first macrame piece was made with waxed linen and seeds found in the desert; the seeds got turned into beads with a nail and hammer to make the beads holes. Macrame was perfect since we had very…

Macramé is a form of textile-making using knotting rather than weaving or knitting. Cavandoli knotting (also called Tapestry Knotting) is a variety of macramé used to form geometric and free-form patterns like weaving. The Cavandoli style is done mainly using the single knot and the double half-hitch knot. Reverse half hitches are sometimes used to

The projects in our first book, Micro-Macrame Jewelry. Included in the Combo

Learn the technique for tying a Cavandoli friendship bracelet. The pattern lines move diagonally and are so simple a child can work them.