Directions for Making a Sailors Bracelet

Nylon string can be used to make a sailor's bracelet.

A sailor's bracelet, also known as a sailor's knot bracelet, is braided all the way around. Nylon or cotton string can be used to make a sailor's bracelet. The bracelet is made while it's on your wrist, so it can be put on and taken off by simply sliding the bracelet over the wrist.

Things You'll Need

• 3 yards of three-ply nylon

Instructions

1. Take a 3-yard piece of three-ply nylon that is 1/8 of an inch thick, and wrap it around your wrist twice.

2. Take the end of the string that is hanging off the wrist and pass it under the right strand and over the left strand.

3. Keep the long part of the string over to the left.

4. Take the remaining two strands of string wrapped around your wrist and twist them together.

5. Hold the twist together with one hand while using the other hand to weave the long string in and out of the twisted string, so it looks like a braid.

6. Continue weaving all the way to the end of the bracelet, and then weave it through again.

7. Continue the weaving process until there is no string left.

References

• Jan Brett: Sailor's Bracelet