Lifestyle Bookazine Macramé for Beginners Second Edition Edición anterior

Macramé for Beginners fuses the ancient art of creative knot tying with exciting new design interpretations to bring macramé into the world of modern living. Whether you are looking for an artistic feature to enliven a room, or decorative yet functional pieces to transform your entire home, we’ve put together a diverse selection of enticing projects to meet all your creative ambitions.

Whether you are wanting to learn a new craft or simply to advance your skills, we’ve something for everyone. There are twenty-four projects to choose from and we have presented them as twelve project pairings, with the first an ideal platform to begin your knotting journey and the second the perfect opportunity to expand on your current skills as a macramé artist.

In devising our designs we have aimed to introduce you to a wide variety of decorative possibilities, using an assortment of rope thicknesses, rich colourways and interesting textural techniques. There is a detailed guide to tying knots, and we strongly advise you to practise the knots you need before beginning a project.

Each project starts by listing the knots and techniques required as well as the essential materials you will need, before describing the pattern instructions in step-by-step detail for each design. There are lots of detailed photographs to guide you through the tying sequences; follow these precisely and you will see that even the most complex of designs is far easier to achieve than you might have expected.