fil noueur

English translation: knotting strand

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French term or phrase:	fil noueur
English translation:	knotting strand
Entered by:	Rachel Fell

11:45 Aug 11, 2006

French to English translations [PRO]
Art, Arts & Crafts, Painting / Crochet/Jewelry Making

French term or phrase: fil noueur

This is a term used in hard/sculptural crochet. A similar term, fil porteur, I have found in English as carry strand. I think fil noueur may be a knot strand, but I can't find any use of it in English. Does anyone know for sure what it is?

Kelly Lardin KudoZ activity Questions: 6 (none open) Answers: 0 United States
Local time: 14:41

some info.

Explanation:
there are some crochet terms here in the crochet section that may help -

cru.cahe.wsu.edu/CEPublications/em4720/em4720.pdf
http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:U765XUrOhi4J:cru.cahe.wsu...

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I think it's probably "knotting strand"

6. Continue using the white strand as your knotting strand, and make two basic knots over each of the other neighboring strands in the order they appear.

http://www.babaganewz.com/teachers/pdfs/95quickbracelet.pdf

separate strands of thread. One strand is the carrier strand, and the other is the knotting strand, which must be at least twice as long, if not longer. You can knot as you string with this method, or string all of the beads on to the carrier string only, and then work the knotting string through the beads as you go. Start with either a bead tip or one bead through both strands. Then, take the knotting

http://pmegio.com/instructions/knot.html

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Rachel Fell
United Kingdom
Local time: 20:41

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This is definitely it.

Thanks.
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some info.

Rachel Fell

this may help

Marion Sadoux

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4 mins confidence:

this may help

Explanation:
If you google Knot strand nothing comes up as such.
May be this list of knots from wikepedia can help you find what you are looking for, if you haven't already looked.

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_knots

Marion Sadoux
China
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French

17 mins confidence:

some info.

Rachel Fell
United Kingdom
Local time: 20:41
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This is definitely it.

Thanks.

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