How Do You Make A Sailor's Bracelet?

Sailor's bracelets are also known as surfer's bracelets or Nantucket sailor's bracelets. They were made popular by the children's book "Comet's Nine Lives" by Jan Brett. You will make the bracelet directly on your wrist and tie it off, so it stays on until the cord weathers through and breaks.

Wrap one end of the string around your wrist two times. Tape the end of the cord in place on your wrist. You will use the long end to weave back into itself to finish the sailor's bracelet.

Take the long end of the cord and roll most of it into a smaller ball you can unravel as your work. Pull this long cord beneath the right string and then over the left one. Pull the long portion of the string to the left and hold it with one hand.

Use the other hand to cross the middle strand over the right strand and hold them in place. Take the longer left string and push it under the middle strand and over the right. This is the first knot in the sailor's bracelet.

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A Sailor's Knot Bracelet uses what is known as a Turk's Head knot. It is actually a continuous braid. Finish off both ends of the cord so they don't fray.

Tape the cord to a tube, can or pole. (Optionally, you can use your own left hand. See "How to Make a Sailor's Head Knot.") Wrap the cord all the way around the can, creating an "X."

Poke the working end *up* through the top of the "X." Pull tight. * Turn can towards you, so the working end is hanging from the bottom.

Reverse the cords, forming an "eye" shaped hole. Poke cord "up" through the hole. Pull tight.

* The cords form an "X.". Poke cord *up* through top of "X." Pull tight.

* Poke the working end *up* through the top of the next "X." Pull tight. * Continue until you've returned to the starting point.

Continue poking the cord in and out. Be careful to keep it flat (don't let the cords cross) and parallel to the previous cycles. This bracelet goes around two times; you can do more to make it wider.

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