Flower Knot - bondage tips

The name of this knot reflects its simplistic beauty and floral appearance. A sequential variation from a number of different knot families, it is referred to as “Hana Musubi” (or Flower Knot) in Japan. Useful when seeking to create a harness that sprouts off of a knot maintaining two or more available loops, it makes an elegant centerpiece.

How to tie a Cross Knot

Rope length: Any length

Rope diameter: Any diameter

Start by making a bight, or a single loop, pointing toward the right.

Below this bight, make a second bight and insert it up through the first bight you created.

Create a third bight and tuck it up through the second bight you created.

Now take the working end of the third bight and weave it down through the bight it created...

then over both lines of the first bight...

then up and under the first bight.

Finally, tuck the working end of rope up underneath and through the third bight.

Adjust the piece by pulling on the “petals” of the knot while taking up any slack within the knot.