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I find it very soothing to work with a bit of cotton string -- it actually helps me concentrate better when I'm engaged in conversations or attending concerts or shows. I make quite a few of them, usually finishing the ends off with a small tassel, and then I give them away.
Very often, people will ask "How much?" I point out that since I give these away in person, I cannot, in all conscience, ask for payment from any recipient.
If you look around at any of the conventions or dances that I have attended, you will probably see at least a few folks sporting these as bracelets. If you have glanced through the photo folders here on my site, you may have noticed them on the wrists of some of the individuals in the pictures.
Please don't ask me to start mass producing these and sending them out -- they are made on the spot and given away, strictly on an ad hoc basis. If you want one, come and find me, in person, and ask for one.
In addition, feel free to explore the part of the site where I have placed illustrated directions on making them, and learn to do your own.
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In teaching kids how to make bracelets in string, I've been working my way toward easier and easier teaching props, and I've come up with patterns that can be wrapped around those styrofoam "noodle" pool toys and used as a guide for the Turk's-head knots I use. There are two, so far, the five-lead by nine-bight knot and the seven-lead by nine-bight knot.
Print the pattern out with no scaling and it should be just about the right size to wrap around the noodle. Put toothpicks into the loops, no particular precision required, then follow the over and under pattern of the knot with string.
Once you get back to the starting point, pull it off the cylinder and run more string through, next to the first pass, and tighten it up to the desired size. Practice until you get it right. Oh, and never tighten it down on someone's wrist -- always leave some slack.
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