
alt=|thumb|Detail of Cavandoli macramé Macramé is a form of textile produced using knotting (rather than weaving or knitting) techniques.
alt=|thumb|Detail of Cavandoli macramé Macramé is a form of textile produced using knotting (rather than weaving or knitting) techniques.
The primary knots of macramé are the square (or reef knot) and forms of "hitching": various combinations of half hitches. It was long crafted by sailors, especially in elaborate or ornamental knotting forms, to cover anything from knife handles to bottles to parts of ships.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).