dragon plafond knot 🐉 3Lx4B ring mat, plafond tie to decorative lanyard knot

[alana]

the dragon plafond knot 🐉
carrick bends, using plafond tie
it's chinese new year, 10 feb 2024 !
((( gonggg )))

two carrick bends [3lx4b ring knot] are woven together to form a decorative lanyard knot,
circular in form, with serpentine features

70cm of 3mm cord

i have based the tying process of this dragon plafond on the steps first shown by Mark of @Paracordguild channel in his demonstration of the square plafond knot

[KnotMe]

Considering that the OG plafond knot is 2 reef knots (they aren't to start with, but after the flipping around, are they reef knots??) , and here you've stacked then flipped 2 double coin knots, one wonders what other candidates for that treatment will give us plafond-ishness?  "Dragon" is much more fun than "quadruple coin", eh? 

[alana]

hahaaa it is a quadruple coinnn!  ☺

[alana]

the overhand knots keep their handedness when they're folded in,

but i just happen to have given reef knots the plafond-tie treatment!,
looks very similar, but yeh, a variation

[alana]

yet more plafondery
various base knots tied via plafond knot steps (as shown by Mark of paracord guild),

including some beads, which i didn't notate!,
but in the line-up, they all (except last one) have a carrick bend base knot,
so the funny thing about them is that they don't jam. beads that don't jam  ☺

that's quite enough knot tying for today

[alana]

https://www.surreyknots.org.uk/17-chinese-lanyard-knot.htm

[alana]

in browsing the internet i came across this igkt chart 17,
drawn by Geoffrey Budworth,
of the tying process of the plafond knot,
Chinese lanyard knot,
possibly dated 2009 ☺

https://www.surreyknots.org.uk/17-chinese-lanyard-knot.htm