Knotting Natural Bags & Belts: 18 Macramé Projects to Accessorize Your Everyday Wardrobe

by Stacy Summer Malimban

Overview

Rising in popularity in the 1970's, macrame is now having a modern-day resurgence! Use natural materials to create chic macrame bags and belts with a laid-back, bohemian style. With 18 step-by-step projects that slowly increase in difficulty, you will learn over a dozen macrame knots as you make fashion accessories. The author of the book, Stacey Summer Malimban, uses recycled cotton fibers and some jute for her strings, but artists can use their own preferred materials including hemp or raffia. Perfect for crafters of any skill level and macrame enthusiasts, enjoy the renewal of this popular fiber art and make your own hand-knotted master pieces. Achieve on-trend macrame designs that won't go out of style with this must-have book for crafters.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781497101418
Publisher:	Fox Chapel Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	06/20/2023
Pages:	112
Sales rank:	1,037,623
Product dimensions:	7.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.40(d)

Editorial Reviews

01/16/2023

Malimban, owner of the online macramé store Knotty by Nature, debuts with an easy-to-follow primer on creating macramé bags and belts. She recounts learning macramé to make decorations for her “Camp Boho”–themed wedding, which led her to open an Etsy store for her work. To help readers craft her designs, she offers an overview of necessary supplies, recommending measuring tape, combs to tease out tassels, and corkboard and pushpins to hold projects in place while one works. Malimban prioritizes “repetitive basic knots” in her designs to keep them beginner-friendly and shows how to craft a pink open-weave “net bag” and a fringed white “phone holder bag” mostly made of square knots. A broader variety of knots are used in the belts, which include the “zigzag pattern belt” and the relatively ornate “diamond-pattern belt with wooden rings.” The ample photos illustrating each step make the designs easy to follow, and the tone is fun throughout (“Let’s get knotty!”), even if Malimban sometimes goes overboard with puns (“Make sure you do knot cut the cord off before untying it”). Novices will appreciate these charming, simple projects. (Jan.)

Publishers Weekly

Stacy's book is ideal for artists looking to explore macrame in ways that are both timeless and on-trend. - Katherine Lile, author of Zigzag Rope Sewing Projects: 16 Home Accessories to Make with a Simple Stitch

An easy-to-follow primer on creating macramé bags and belts ... Novices will appreciate these charming, simple projects. - Publishers Weekly

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