How to make a leather knot bracelet

One of our recent popular request is the leather knot bracelet using the Josephine infinity knot. We did a previous tutorial on a variation of this knot HERE. In our tutorial today, we’re using 5mm flat leather or as another option, two piece of round leather.

What you’ll need:

2 pieces of 12″ 5mm Flat Leather
2 – Crescent Slider Bead for 10mm Flat Leather(Ant. Silver/Gold/ Ant. Copper/Ant. Brass)
Small Magnetic Clasp (Ant. Silver/ Ant. Brass/ Ant. Copper)
Super New Glue – A015821

Items used in bracelet example: A015688, Z012736 (2) & CH00043 (24)

Knot Tutorial

Start with 2 pieces of 5mm leather at 12″ each or four pieces of 2mm round leather at 15″ each.
Follow illustrated diagram to make knot.
At the end, after you gently pull your ends to create your knot, slide on your slider beads through both leather cinch the knot in the middle.
Measure the bracelet to desired length, making sure to center your knot. Cut leather with sharp shears or Xuron Shears.
Add a small dab of Super New Glue to clasp channel and slide one side of your leather ends through. Repeat to other clasp end.
Let it fully dry for a few hours before wearing!

You can also checkout this video tutorial clipped from our Facebook Live episode featuring Tory’s Birthday.

Tutorials starts at 10 minutes and 35 seconds.

Flat Leather
Leather
Tutorial
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In this tutorial learn how to make a simple knotted bracelet with recycled African Trade beads.

Step 1

Gather your materials such as the round leather, recycled trade beads, African hammered bicone, as well tools.

You can alternatively use a pair of scissors to cut leather cord.

Step 3

Measure 45 inches of round leather and cut.

Step 4

Insert the African hammered bicone to the leather cord.

Step 5

Measure 1 1/2 inch at the end of leather cord towards the first bead.

Step 6

Pinch the ends of the bicone beads, leaving the short end on top and the long part at the bottom

Take the long part of the leather cord and wrap around your index finger.

Make another wrap in front of the first wrap.

Slip your index finger out of the wraps

Weave the long part of the leather underneath the loop wraps.

Pull the longer part of the cord to tighten knot.

Tighten knot as much as possible.

Step 13

Insert the first recycled bead.

Insert the short end into the first bead

Step 15

Follow the the knotting technique of Step 5

Support the beaded part of the bracelet with index finger as the long cord is woven through under the wraps.

Tighten the knot by pulling on both sides leather cord and beaded side to have equal tightness.

Check for knot straightness.

Cut end tail.

Step 20

Insert the next glass bead.

Follow the knotting technique of step 5.

Each knot has two wraps

Check for straightness of bead and knot.

Check for length

Step 25

From end of the last bead, measure a loop of 1/2 inch.

Pinch this loop with your fingers to secure.

Create a knot under the loop you are holding.

Measure the size of the loop, making sure it still is 1/2 inch.

Adjust to fit the loop for African Bicone

Tighten knot.

Step 31

After adjust ing the loop and tightening the lat knot cut the end tail of the round leather 1/4 inch away from the last knot.

Conclusion

Enjoy your bracelet. This knotting technique is very simple and can be applied to other beads. So have fun and don't forget to share your finished bracelets to us by tagging us on your social media.