Step 5: Shaping the knot
This step overlaps to some extent with the previous step: as you pull your ends through the knot, interweaving the same way over and over, you'll want to start giving the whole mat a pleasant shape. For the mats you use as hair ornament, you want it to approach a slight bowl-ish shape, so that you can fit a lot of hair into the knot.
This shaping is done by tightening the knot around itself - not too much, that'll result in too small a knot - while moving the slack through the knot by pulling the excess rope around and around through the knot until it arrives at one of the loose ends. This part can be somewhat longwinded, but I find it relaxing, and pleasant - something to make your hands do while you do something else. This knot was created while watching Cirque du Soleil and parts of the first Matrix movie!
This shaping is done by tightening the knot around itself - not too much, that'll result in too small a knot - while moving the slack through the knot by pulling the excess rope around and around through the knot until it arrives at one of the loose ends. This part can be somewhat longwinded, but I find it relaxing, and pleasant - something to make your hands do while you do something else. This knot was created while watching Cirque du Soleil and parts of the first Matrix movie!
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