Macramé For Beginners

By Carlisle Palmer

Macramé For Beginners: Here's the Perfect Solution If You Want to Make Beautiful Macramé Fast 

Are you looking for a simple, step-by-step guide to making your first macramé projects?

If you want to master a new skill and find a new hobby that will help you beautify your home and garden, macramé is the way to go!

 

Macramé is a wonderfully old craft that has been experiencing a renaissance lately. And it's no wonder - this ancient skill is earth-friendly, satisfying, and productive! With macramé, you're training your hand-to-eye coordination, focus, memory skills, AND producing beautiful home and garden decorations!

Macramé is a deeply calming and satisfying activity too. The process itself is highly enjoyable, but once you create your first knots and decorations hanging around the house, you'll be also filled with pride and joy! 

This book has detailed instructions that will help you get started immediately. With some very simple knots and 10 beginner-friendly projects to try, you'll become a macramé master in no time! 

 

Here's just a small preview of what you'll find inside this book:

• What is macramé and how to understand its origins over the centuries
• The 5 principle knots of macramé any beginner can learn to master 
• Most popular knots for jewelry, decorations, and much more
• Mind, body, and soul benefits of macramé to fall in love with this beautiful skill
• 10 beginner-level projects to try out, with detailed, step-by-step instructions
• AND SO MUCH MORE!

With macramé, the only limit is your imagination. So if you have some time on your hands and are looking to fill it with a productive, calming, and creatively stimulating hobby, this is it. Use this book as your macramé mastery bible, and you'll be making impressive decorations in no time… 

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Carlisle Palmer
• Release date: Nov 18, 2022
• ISBN: 9798215011829

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MACRAMÉ FOR BEGINNERS

The Step by Step Guide to Get Started on Your First Macramé Approach Including Some Easy Knots to Get Started and 10 Beginner Projects

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Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER ONE

Macramé and Its Origin

CHAPTER TWO

Modern Macramé

CHAPTER THREE

The Macramé Bases, Its Adaptations and How to Start in House and Garden

How to Start

Spring A Plant Upkeep

How to Decorate A Macramé?

How to Make A Plant Hanger?

CHAPTER FOUR

Health Benefits of Macramé

CHAPTER FIVE

How to Master Your Knots

5 Main and Simplest Knots of The Macramé

How to Untie A Knot?

CHAPTER SIX

Macramé Knotting

Selecting the Best Tools to Create Your Macramé

Best Macramé Knots to Make Jewelry

Decorative Knots

Hemp Knotting

Noose Knot

Most Popular Knots Used in Jewelry

CHAPTER SEVEN

Simple Projects to Start

CONCLUSIONS

INTRODUCTION

Macramé dates back to the 13th century. The word macramé is of Arabic origin, meaning fringe. It is understood that the Arabian weavers began the skill by knotting the additional material at the edges of the loamed material. It eventually came from these origins to Italy and France in the early 14th and 15th centuries. Sailors picked up the skill as it was a preferred way to spend some of the long hours out at sea. The basic knots used by the sailors are the same knots of macramé today:, the half knot and the square knot. The sailors have passed on their techniques to the Chinese, who have harmonized their skills with their own unique customs and culture. Macramé became popular with the British in the nineteenth century.

In this book, you'll be able to learn the simple skills you need to get started in macramé. As time went by, the skill fell to neglect. It was renewed in the 1960s and 1970s, which brought the revitalization of the ancient skill. Its popularity fell in the '80s and' 90s, but the beginning of the 21st century saw the return of its popularity to full swing, with an unlimited number of creative possibilities for hobbyists, artists, and appreciators of the many diverse macramé products.

Nowadays, macramé means different things to different people. For many, it is good in several ways. Tying the different knots can strengthen both hands and arms. Creating a macramé project can be quite calm to the mind, body, and spirit! Macramé's projects call for a few tools and a call for supplies without any chemicals or fumes; it is unquestionably an earth-friendly, natural art form.

It is also explained in this book that macramé projects are different from jewelry, plant hangers, home decorations, wall hangers, purses, and belts. The colors and textures of macramé are of a wide variety to choose from. Materials range from different thicknesses of jute and hemp to twine, colored nylon, and polyester fibers. These days, there are not only wooden beads in the projects but also glass and ceramic beads as well.

Macramé has changed; yes, it's all part of an imaginative process that lasts on a multitude of levels. Novice macramé craftsmen, as well as experts, find it therapeutic, fun, creative, and satisfying. There are more and more choices for superior macramé to enhance the decor of your home, wardrobe, and personal style for those who just want to use and appreciate the finished pieces. Now, without wasting a lot of time, let's start. We’ll start by going back to its origin and how it started.

CHAPTER ONE

Macramé and Its Origin

Macramé is an age-old craft that uses fiber cords to tie knots. This craft has been around for hundreds of years, and it can be traced back to the 13th century. It was believed that the art originated with Arab weavers who traveled through the desert and traded the products of their craftsmanship with city dwellers.

In time, the craftsmanship of macramé spread throughout Europe, attracting the fascination of all the social classes. In fact, manly sailors have been known to macramé when spending a long time at sea. When they were in port, the sailors bartered their finished craft so that they could buy essential supplies before returning to their ships. With this, the art of macramé continued to flourish.

Macramé's popularity peaked in the Victorian era. Macramé lace was popular and could be found on curtains, women's sleeves, hems of dresses, pillowcases, and anywhere else that could use a little lacy embellishment.

Where the Persians and the Syrians used it to make their own clothes, in the 13th century, it arrived in Spain with the Moorish conquerors and spread throughout Europe where it was used to make vests, wall hangers, and carpets; using strings made of cotton, jute, flax, and silk. It's a very ancient technique. Macramé was introduced in England at the end of the 17th century.

It became fashionable in the British and American world during the 19th century. All kinds of necklaces were made with glass beads, hammocks, bell fringes, and belts. It was taken to South and North America by European sailors who spent long hours in the ocean making all kinds of knots to decorate their ships, their knives and their bottles of wine. Macramé jewelry became popular in America as part of the hippie movement, starting in the 1970s using mostly square and granny knots, using the Hemp string, combining it with handmade glass beads and natural elements such as bone, shell, and stone. In the 20th century, Macramé became one of the most popular crafts making an unlimited number of possibilities, using materials such as hemp and waxed polyester strings.

Regaining Popularity

Macramé is very popular in Central and South America today. There are many forms of knotting, and weaving techniques are very similar all over the world, even though craftsmen from Argentina weave differently than those from China (both of them are based on the same basic square knot).

Macramé has reached more complex levels than anyone could ever imagine; home decor and interior design have become a new field for this unique craft. Top musicians, Hollywood actors, and influencers are talking about this art form. From Japan to Argentina, a new part of art has been reborn and is being used to decorate businesses and private homes, boutique hotels, and display apparel used for fashioning clothing and stage wear. It is used in movies and custom cinemas, and every kind of wearable design is made by hand.

Over the centuries, Macramé's popularity has gradually decreased. Some of the more elaborate knotting techniques were soon forgotten, leaving no record of their patterns and designs. The art of knotting, however, keeps coming back to life; the passion for knotting burning continuously beneath the surface.

The passion for macramé regained life in the 70s. During that decade, macramé pieces have always been seen everywhere. Without a macramé plant hanger or macramé owl hanging on its walls, there was never a home. During this revival period, the craft-focused more on textiles and furniture, such as macramé hammocks, chairs, and decorative macramé accessories used at home. By the time the rocking and rolling eighties had come, macramé had faded from people's memories.

However, this disappearance did not last long. The grunge scene came with the nineties, and, once again, the age-old craft experienced a revival of sorts, although this time in the form of hemp jewelry. Macramé bracelets and necklaces can be found at craft fairs and shops. The natural, earthy look of hemp was the perfect complement to the knotted form of art.

Sure, hand-knotted tapestries, plant hangers and accessories which filled every nook and cranny in the '70s has made a mighty comeback now, but this craft has been handed down hundreds of years from all over the world. Although it may be difficult to pinpoint the very first Macramé ever made, thanks to the 13th-century Arab Artisans, the craft slowly spread throughout Europe