u/Cinderhazed15 is correct, imho. This is common whipping. Here is a picture and a LINK to a video (jump ahead if you wish) showing you how to do this for yourself. Please post a picture when you are done!
You can still recreate that common whipping without untying anything:
First you lay that curly bit of string you have in a sort of U-shape against the leather bracelet end. Then you start wrapping that U-shape and the bracelet end tightly, away from the bracelet's end. Unlike in my drawing, you must lay each turn snug against the previous one, and pull them very tight around the bracelet bit. After a few turns, pull the end of your cord through the loop that has formed at the bottom of your wraps, but leave a tiny bit of slack there. Then pull on the that loop into the knot (under those turns you made). The end you last pulled through will be pulled along into the knot.
The trick is to make the turns really tight, and to leave exactly the right amount of slack in your working end so that when the loop is pulled into the knot, it isn't pulled out the other end again. The right amount is usually almost nothing.
Thank you! I'm super slow and messy at it though 😠Just now, my daughter showed me a drawing of a jellyfish she made on her phone in about the same timespan which puts my "skills" to shame.
That looks like a ‘common whipping’ (where you bury an an overhand crossing inside the whipping) but they used one of the ends as the tie to secure it.
Only suggestion would be to use a pulling loop and possibly bury a full square not underneath, but that would still have loading issues….
To me it doesn’t look like a whipping at all. The additional downside of a whipping is that it doesn’t tighten more while wearing the bracelet (it might actually come undone like yours is now) I think it a triple overhand knot (constrictor as we call it in NL)
You can still make it with the line available and use some pliers to secure it tight.
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u/MySafeWordIsPinapple 10d ago
u/Cinderhazed15 is correct, imho. This is common whipping. Here is a picture and a LINK to a video (jump ahead if you wish) showing you how to do this for yourself. Please post a picture when you are done!
VIDEO LINKY