ABSTRACT

One of our early design quests was to create bracelet patterns that illustrate torus knots. Like ballet danc-ers who make the difficult look easy, torus knots have a simple elegance that belies a precise choreography. For the bead crochet designer, they are a natural focus, since the various underlying spiral structures in all bracelets form some flavor of torus knot. We begin by explaining what they are and why we find them intriguing, starting with a few preliminary definitions.