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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 917596, member: 5833&quot;]Yes, if I&#039;m going to knot, I only use silk.&nbsp; You need knotting tweezers to do it properly.&nbsp; When I was teaching myself, I practiced by taking apart some costume pearls that had belonged to my mother &amp; become stretched out.&nbsp; You have to select a gauge of cord small enough to go through your smallest bead holes but thick enough to make knots larger than the largest holes.&nbsp; If you are knotting only beads all of the same type, there&#039;s usually no challenge.&nbsp; I solve the problem of mixed hole sizes by basically plugging the larger holes with smaller beads, little pearls, crystals or gold spacers, &amp; then treating the 3 beads together as 1, knotting only either side of the small beads.&nbsp; Knots create joints, making the piece more supple.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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