This video tutorial will show how to tie a Two-Bight Turk's-Head lanyard using about 5.5 feet of 550 paracord. The Turk's Head part of the knot is described in 'The Ashley Book of Knots', knot #595. I added the lanyard knot and loop on the end to make it useful as a lanyard. The actual time it took to make the lanyard from start to finish was under 20 minutes, but I edited the video down to keep it under YouTube's 10 minute limit and not have to upload multiple parts. The time consuming parts are making additional passes and then tightening up and working the slack out of the knot.

More knotty stuff, including links and learning resources, can be found on my blog page, Stormdrane's Blog: http://stormdrane.blogspot.com

A great site to visit for those interested in knots: Knot Heads World Wide: http://www.khww.net

Another is Animated Knots by Grog: http://www.animatedknots.com

I used Windows Movie Maker, and the uploaded video is a hastily done version after I screwed up editing the original, and started over. I don't tend to talk when tying and I left out a lot of typed instruction to shorten the video. I hope it's not too hard to follow what's being done in the video.

*The AudioSwap music playing with the video is 'Amy' by Thinkstandard. (less info)