Sorry, this one happened too quickly for pictures. Seriously, once I started tying it just flew between my fingers.
The construction of the snake knot has the cords reversed on the inside. (Red is wrapped around black.) This means that the colors of the True Lovers Knot in the center are opposite the snake knot for a bit of visual contrast.
I really don’t like fusing cords. The molten lump is huge and ugly and prone to failure. Especially since you almost always have to make a tight bight at the fused joint so you don’t have a stitch or two as a single color.
Fused joint holds everything together.
With this snake knot, the fused joint is hidden from view, but it’s part of the loop that forms the closure. So any stresses to this hat band are taken up by the joint with zero support.
The snake knot has an oval cross section, so it works nicely for a bracelet or a hat band. In order to avoid the fused joint, I was trying to tie it using the folded over ends as a core, but then the black/burgundy intersection was forming a spiral instead of a line.
Side view
I’ll probably stitch the band to the hat in two or three places, which will also help protect that fused joint.
With a bachelors degree in history, I turn wrenches for a living. I’m most at peace when I hear the wind in the trees or the gurgle of a brook. I’m a believer in the Renaissance Man, as epitomized by DaVinci engineer, artist, soldier, statesman. As Heinlein said, “A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyse a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
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