Note that there are five distinct paths around the ring, being followed by the two solid and one twisted strand. This is a "five-lead" knot.
While I have made rings with only four leads for a special order, I would not ordinarily bother with anything less complex than five, certainly nothing as trivial as three.
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Now this ring has two more paths around it, so it is a "seven-lead" knot. Again, the paths are being followed by two solid and one twisted strand. You can see that this makes for a pretty wide ring.
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With additional leads, the multi-strand pattern rapidly becomes too wide to be comfortable, so when I go to a "nine-lead" knot I only follow the path with a single strand.
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Ok, I think you get the idea. I've gotten a bit carried away, here, going to a knot with eleven leads across.
It would be possible to go further, but I doubt if anyone would be willing to pay me as much as I would demand for anything requiring this much effort, let alone offer enough to get me to attempt an even wider ring.
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