Butterfly Pendant

Hand-crafted Knot Jewelry:
Decorative Marlingspike Seamanship rendered in precious metal.

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For some time, now, I've been in the habit of showing a slightly distorted form of the Prolong Knot that I teach as a cuff bracelet, but in string, to give people an idea of how adaptable it is. I finally got around to implementing one of them in silver, to see how it comes out.

Three-loop Prolong Knot with stretched loops.

It wasn't immediately obvious to me how it should be suspended, though, but I went ahead and put some jump rings on it. Not sure this is what I want, but it isn't too bad.

Three-loop Prolong Knot with stretched loops, suspended from both antennae.

I think I like it better hanging with a slight bias, though, as shown here:

Three-loop Prolong Knot with stretched loops, suspended from one antenna.

Just for fun, a little bit more complexity, a longer body, and it turns into a dragonfly: