Woven paracord bracelet/watchband

Step 4: Begin weaving

Now you begin weaving the long working end of your paracord. The shorter end will be left out until it's time to finish the bracelet/watchband, and tuck it into the weave.

This weaving process is called 'weaving with three warps'. You'll be going around the outer cord with your working strand, under the center two cords(which you treat as one cord), and around the other outer cord.

You weave it back over the center two strands and around the outer, continuing this process, back and forth. Try not to leave too much slack as you go to keep the weave uniform. Every couple of weaves, push your work tight, up towards the starting buckle end.

Comments

[Adambowker98]

Does this certain knot have a name?

[killeryeti4217]

I believe that it is called the triobite bar

[Stormdrane]

The 'trilobite bar', also also called the 'ladder rack knot', and before that the 'six pack', is tied differently using two working ends. The method I used in this instructable is simply weaving with one working end, as shown in the book, 'Creative Ropecraft' by Stuart Grainger. ;)

[Stormdrane]

This paracord bracelet/watchband pattern is just a form of weaving, it does not have a specific name, so that's why I just called it a woven paracord bracelet/watchband.

There's an example of this woven pattern in 'Creative Ropecraft' by Stuart Grainger, one weft and three warps, although the drawn diagram in the book is shown loosely made, so it does not closely resemble the finished tightened pattern.

[Adambowker98]

Thanks! BTW, do you or someone you know of have a fishtail bracelet tutorial or instructable or something?

[Stormdrane]

I have some info with doing a two working strand style in a blog post from a few years ago.

Knot tying friend Ken Cardwell has an instructable for one with a single working strand, that he calls the in-and-out loop, based on a paracord bracelet I'd made a few months earlier.

JD of TIAT has a couple of videos, single color and dual color.

[sthtxmadman]

You have the easiest-to-follow tutorials, Thanks a bunch.

[Paracord Ninja]

Stormdrane I like all of your instructables this one is awesome thanks

[Paracord Ninja]

I used this design over the past months and it works great

[angusbangus]

If you trim the shorter end down to about an inch and place it in between the middle 2 cords, you can weave it right into the band. That leaves as clean a finish as you can get. Pull on the short end as you tighten the knots. But be careful not to pull it so much that you shorten the outside cord that it is attached to. On the last few weaves before you finish, you can use the end of a paper clip or safety in to pull it tight. Remove the safety pin and voila... no more short cord to deal with and it's right where you would have laboriously put it later with the hemostats.

[Stormdrane]

Good tip, thanks for sharing!