Interrupting our ongoing discourse on good luck knots, I’m going back to basics with an illustration of terms used to describe various cord parts and configurations.

What with all the good luck knot stuff I’ve been doing, it’s time to fix up the main page and do a how-to or 2 or… But that sort of thing takes time. All the first round of pictures are scanned and need to be processed, text added, etc. See the files as they are worked on. When the pages are complete, they will replace the directory listings. This is a peek under the hood.

Last but not least is the nonagonal good luck knot. More accurately Greek vs Latin, the term enneagonon is more “correct”, but nonagon is the more popular and commonly used term. Plus there’s this whole ennegram/enneagram personality thing to confuse matters. Best to stick with nonagon, am I right?!? 8)

Behold the Heptagonal good luck knot. An alternate term for a seven sided figure is septagon, but in an effort to minimize confusion, let’s stick with “heptagon”.

As I was posting 3, 6, and 8 I felt a twinge of discomfort. Was it OCD? Anal retentiveness? Whatever it was, it is surely related to completism and the collector’s instinct. I wasn’t going to be happy unless I filled in the blanks.

Here’s the first. A pentagonal good luck knot, done with two over 2 crown knots.