About this knot
This knot gives macrame its trademark spiral pattern in plant and wall hangers. The spiral looks sculpted and neat. It is easily achieved as the half knots pull into a natural spiral without you needing to do anything more than just keep repeating the same knot over again.
How to tie this knot
Step 1
The spiral half knot is made from 4 cords. Let us number them 1 to 4 from left to right as shown in diagram 1. Cords 1 and 4 are the working cords, and the cords 2 and 3 are filler cords and just pass through the middle of the half knots.
Step 2
Begin by passing the working cord 4 to the left behind the filler cords 2 and 3 and in front of the working cord 1 as shown in diagram 2.
Step 3
Take the working cord 1 and pass it to the right in front of the filler cords and through the loop made by cord 4 so that it passes behind cord 4 as shown in diagram 3.
Step 4
Gently pull the knot tight by pulling on the working cords
Step 5
Now we just repeat the previous steps to form the next identical half knot.
Pass the working cord 1 to the left behind the filler cords 2 and 3 and in front of the working cord 4 as shown in diagram 5.
Step 6
Take the working cord 4 and pass it to the right in front of the filler cords and through the loop made by cord 1 so that it passes behind cord 1 as shown in diagram 6.
Step 7
Gently pull the knot tight by pulling on the working cords
Step 8
Repeat until you have the desired length of spiral half knots. The diagram below is a flat schematic, but repeating spiral half knots forms a natural spiral without you needing to do anything more than just repeat the same half knot over again.
There are left- and right-handed variants of this knot, where the spiral twists to the left or the right. This can be seen in this section of the Helix wall hanging below.