Macrame pixel knot vs upside-down alpha
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Bullfish
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1 week, 4 days ago by Bullfish
Which type of knotting do you prefer on alphas?- upside-down knotting - macrame pixel knotting Personally, I prefer the macrame pixel knotting. For me this technique on the one hand makes very straight, squary knots and on the other hand does not compress the knots as much as the upside-down technique. Final result. in my opinion, is closer to "normal" knotting than in upside-down technique. Upside-down technique actually shows the backside of "normal" knotting as the frontside and therefore is is way more flat and compressed and less structured for my eyes. As for the knotting itself, both techniques are just slightly different from "normal" knotting and both are just a matter of practice. The only thing, on both techniques, is: I couldn`t yet find a way to work these as a clean back alpha. Whatever I tried, it won`t work for me. Did anyone find a way for a clean back on either of these two techniques? |
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halokiwi
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1 week, 4 days ago by halokiwi
Can you link images of examples?
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halokiwi
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1 week, 4 days ago by halokiwi
About making these clean-back:The upside-down alpha technique is the regular alpha technique but upside down. If you use the clean-back alpha technique on a regular alpha, the back will be clean. Therefore you have an upside-down alpha with a clean back. Or am I misunderstanding something? |
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Bullfish
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1 week, 3 days ago by Bullfish
Well, due to the fact that knotting is the opposite of "normal" knotting, I could not yet find a way to carry along other strings, that are not in use at that moment. It is easy to do that with "normal" knotting though.Personally I prefer the macrame pixel knotting as the final product has extremely straight knots but more structure than the upside-down technique. My first alphas, must be like 15 years ago, were just with "normal" knotting and I always hated the fact, that the knots tended to lean right in forwards rows and left in backwards rows and I am knotting since the late 1980s. I adjusted every single knot, but that for alphas were like a never ending story. Okay, I am a perfectionist, but with macrame pixel knotting knots are straight and little squares, just as they should be and without the need to adjust. So definitely way more fun for me. Anyway, the question was, which technique other knotters prefer and why. |
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halokiwi
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1 week, 3 days ago by halokiwi
Do you have a link to an example of the macrame pixel technique?I think most knotters are unfamiliar with it. So it is probably only going to be a very small minority. Most do regular alphas and a few do upside-down alphas. - Maybe I didn't explain my thinking properly: If you do the clean-back alpha technique, both the back and the front will be clean. If you do the clean-back alpha technique, the back will be identical to the upside-down alpha technique, only mirrored. So wouldn't just doing a clean-back alpha with the image mirrored equal to an upside-down alpha with a clean back? |
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Bullfish
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1 week, 2 days ago by Bullfish
Here is a link to macrame pixel knot (has a second name as well), but pixel seems to be common.https://youtu.be/zd8ovw9WWZ4?si=puO4eRML0guu544S Nowhere I could find an explanation, whether clean-back is an option and for macrame it does not really matter most of the times |
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halokiwi
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1 week, 2 days ago by halokiwi
To be honest, macrame pixel knot and upside-down alpha seem to be identical techniques to me. Can you explain what exactly the difference is?Potentially, these are just different names for the same thing. Macrame has been around and then people rediscovered the technique when tying alphas. |
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halokiwi
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1 week, 2 days ago by halokiwi
If they are identical, what I said about upside-down alphas, applies to pixel macrame too:You could tie a "regular" alpha that is mirrored using the clean-back alpha technique. In the end, both front and back will be clean. The "back" will be identical to upside-down alpha/pixel macrame and the "front" will be the clean "back" of the upside-down alpha/pixel macrame. You could probably reverse engineer how to do the clean back while the back is your front. In the end, it doesn't really matter from which side you work. Both should work out. |
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