Prince Edwards' carrack bracelet 1631

 This unusual turks head knot bracelet is made from this pattern published by Charles Hamel which was deduced from this piece of sailor's craftwork made in 1925 by  HRH Prince George Edward Alexander Edmund, Duke of Kent now held in the knot collection of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England.

Using Charles' pattern mounted on a cardboard tube I made this example out of 3/32" cotton cord.

This is available in my Zibbet marketplace.

You can see that the knot is a plain weave turks head of 7 parts and 8 bights. The carrack bends (there are 8 of them) appear in the inner part of the knot offset from each other. This example is rather loosely tied.

Here are a few more patterns by Don Wright also courtesy of Charles' web site:

Don Wright interpretation 1

Don Wright interpretation 2

Photos of Don's attempts to decipher the knot

Don's drawing of the knot grid

Photo of a knot tied from the grid

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