[MR] dare ya....funky hat

[Leslie Cox]

If it is truly correct that it is all square knots, I'm thinking that the
pieces that look wrapped are square knots worked with fairly thin cording
over a fat cord or sheaf of cords?

>From other work I've done, I could almost manage to count the cords needed
for the cylindrical part of the hat from that picture and begin to figure
the pattern, but the animal on it is (pardon but I can't resist) a different
animal altogether (not quite a horse of a different color, since the color
didn't change ;-)   ) and so is the tassel- like stuff at the top.

Are there more pictures of this wonderfully bizarre thing?

-- Lady Lucy Rose Falconer
      (erstwhile 70's macrame crafter - don't laugh, it made money; but I am
showing my age a bit...)


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Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2004 7:24 PM
Subject: [MR] dare ya....funky hat


> Hmmmmm, entirely of square knots.........I would venture to  guess this
hat
> could be done in a macrame technique (yeah, I know it sounds  wrong but
macrame
> is VERY period, provided one is not making plant holders with  wooded
beads)
> over a form, using bobbins.  Since there is a textural  effect the knots
would
> have to be of different sizes to get that  effect.  I wonder if more
thread
> (parts of line) would be needed to make  the fatter knots.
>
>      The decorative rod shaped bits on the  face of the hat are very
likely a
> macrame technique still used to  day.
>
>      Hey, how would such a hat look on  ME?
>
>      Instead of a wolf or such, I would  get a tin Laurel to pin on
> it......hey, yuse guys, yousa wanna see mya  doc-u-menta-tion?
>
> May your threads never tangle,
> Dame Roksanne Grenestrete
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