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Celtic button knot

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ACeltic button knot is a stopper knot on a single rope that results in a spherical decorative knot with hair braid / basket weave pattern. It is essentially a single strand Turk's Head Knot that is structured such a way that it is effectively tied around the rope itself, creating a stopper. It typically is used as a button, or as a knot securing the end of the rope from fraying.

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Celtic button knot
Celtic button knot double pass version, both flat and tightened
Category	Stopper
Category 2	Decorative
Related	diamond knot, Chinese button knot
ABoK	#545

Tying

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Celtic button knots 4 steps; RB: two overhand loops, RT: third loop: over-under-over-under, LT: fourth loop: over-under-under-over, LB: tightened

There are 4 main steps to tying the Celtic knot:

two consecutive overhand loops, the last one placed partially over the first forming two petals of a four petal flower
left end woven from right horizontally through the loops; over, under, over, under forming the third petal
left end woven again from left: over the edge, under, under, over and up through the central hole finishing the four petal flower
1. optional: pushing the end again into the knot following the main part consistently on the inside. This may be repeated to give volume to the knot
tightening evenly to close the petals of the flower forming a sphere around the main part

Step one of tying a Celtic Button knot is a simple loop
Step two of tying a Celtic Button knot is another loop
Step three of tying a Celtic Button knot end woven into loops
Step four: the end goes over the edge line, and under until the middle
Optional second pass-step one: follow the first pass on the inside
Optional second pass-step two: follow the first pass on the inside
Optional second pass-final step of tying a Celtic Button knot done
Optional third pass-final step of tying a Celtic Button knot done
Tightening step of tying a 3 pass Celtic Button knot
A 3 pass Celtic Button knot as seat of a rope swing
Celtic Button knot on the bight therefore double, flat, with loop
Celtic Button knot on the bight therefore double, tightened, with loop

References

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Knots

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Bends	Adjustable Albright special Ashley's Alpine butterfly Basket weave Beer Blood Carrick Double fisherman's Fisherman's Flemish Grief Halyard Harness Heaving line Hunter's Nail One-sided overhand Racking Sheet Shoelace Shroud Simple Simon under Single carrick Surgeon's Surgeon's loop Triple fisherman's True lover's Water Zeppelin
Binding	Boa Bottle sling Constrictor Corned beef Granny Ground-line hitch Jamming Miller's Packer's Reef Strangle Thief Transom
Climbing	Autoblock Bachmann Beer Bowline on a bight Alpine butterfly Directional figure eight Double bowline Farmer's loop Figure-eight Figure-eight loop Figure-of-nine loop Friction hitch Klemheist Munter hitch Noose Overhand loop Prusik Trident loop Yosemite bowline
Coils & shanks	Chain sinnet Sheepshank
Decorative	Carrick mat Chinese button Celtic button Diamond Fiador Friendship Ghiordes & Senneh Matthew Walker Turk's head Wall and crown (triple crown knot)
Fishing (angling)	Angler's loop Arbor Bimini twist Blood Fisherman's Improved clinch Knotless Nail Palomar Snell Trilene Triple fisherman's Turle Uni
Hitches	Adjustable grip Anchor bend Axle Bachmann Bale sling Barrel Becket Blackwall Blake's Boom Buntline Cat's paw Clove Cow Distel Double overhand noose Falconer's Farrimond friction Friction hitch Garda Ground-line Half Halter Highpoint Highwayman's Hitching tie Icicle Improved clinch Killick Knute Lobster buoy Marlinespike Munter Ossel Pile Pipe Sailor's Snuggle Swing Taut-line Timber Trucker's Tumble
Loop	Angler's Artillery loop Bale sling hitch Bowline Bumper Carrick bend loop Cossack Cowboy bowline Diamond Double bowline Dropper loop Eskimo bowline Fiador Fireman's chair Friendship knot Halter hitch Handcuff Honda Jury mast Overhand Portuguese bowline Rigid double splayed loop in the bight Slippery eight Span Spanish bowline Tom fool's Trident Triple bowline Water bowline Yosemite bowline Zeppelin
Running (slip)	Hangman's Running bowline Running highwayman's hitch Tarbuck
Splices & splicing	Eye Fid Marlinspike Rat-tail T Western Union
Stopper	Ashley's stopper Button Double overhand Monkey's fist Overhand Stevedore
Whipping	Common Overhand knot with draw-loop Portuguese Sailmaker's West Country

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