7/27/2019 Friendship Knot

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Friendship KnotThis knot is woven in friendship true And Interlaced with memories too

Of friendship found and shared by two,The ties time and smiles can't undo.

The friendship knot is also known as the Japanese Crown not or the !uccess not. It has been tied since ancienttimes by Asians for ornamental purposes. At first, it mi"ht perhaps seem stran"e that this knot has found its way,across thousands of miles, to us. #ut, in reality, it isn't really so stran"e at all $ for friendship knows no barriers. This

knot is also aptly named, for is it not so that one%s crownin" success is friendship&

The Norwegian Legend of the Friendship Knot

There once lived in orway, facin" the orth !ea, a fisherman and his dau"hter. The child was lonely. All day andlon" into the evenin", her father was on the water fishin". (er mother had died when she was only five years old. !hewas alone so much of the time. To help her idle away the lonely hours, her father tau"ht her the art of knottin", lacin"and braidin" and she spent many a happy hour doin" this work. (er favourite knot was one her father called the knotof friendship. It fascinated her because it looked so much like a four$leaf clover, which she had read about and whichwas supposed to brin" much luck to a person who found one. !he was fascinated also because she could notunderstand what friendship was. (er father could not e)plain *friendship% ... he could not relate it to a person, place orthin". (e could only say a friend was '"ood', 'kind'. 'sincere', and so on+ these thin"s she understood.

hen the child was eleven years old, the sea claimed the life of her father and she was sent into the city to live with anelderly distant relative. The woman did not understand the needs of a youn" child and, once a"ain, she was lonely and

afraid. Across the street from the house in which she lived was a small park and, each week, the child watched a"roup of youn" people "ather there. They all looked so happy and there was so much lau"hter and sin"in". !hedecided that the ne)t week she would "o and sit on the bench and be there when the "irls arrived so she could hearwhat they said and see what made them so happy.

 And so, the very ne)t week, she was sittin" on the bench when the "roup came troupin" down the walk. !he watchedand listened and found it was a "roup of -irl -uides and they were workin" with a map and compass. They seemedunaware that she was even around. In her deep interest in what was "oin" on, she did not see the tall blonde "irlleave the "roup and come to her bench. The "irl said, Come, /oin us and be our friend. Only then did she becomeconscious that she was there. There was the ma"ic word, friendship0 ow perhaps she would find out what it meant.Time passed+ the child did /oin the "roup and did become their friend. On one lovely evenin" durin" a campfireceremony, the child presented to each member of the "roup a li"ht blue rope neck tie and, on the end of each, she hadcarefully made her knot of friendship as her token of love and friendship. !he finally understood the word, friend .

Directions for making the Friendship KnotThis knot symbolises the ties which bind the "irls and adults who belon" to the orld Association of -irl -uides and-irl !couts, and is a si"n of the continuous friendships they share. The four ends of the knot represent the 1romise,the 2aw, the 3otto and !ervice to others. The four s4uares stand for the four orld Centres. ear it with pride0

!tep 5. ith the first ribbon, make aloop with the back end 65b7 lon"er thanthe front end.

!tep 8. 2ay the second ribbon across the toppart 65a7 of the first ribbon. 2oop the endunder the top part 65a7 and across the bottompart 65b7. This end 68b7 should be parallel toand above part 8a.

!tep 9. #rin" the end of the firstribbon 65b7 up over both parts 68a,8b7 of the second ribbon.

!tep :. #rin" the end 68b7 back over the ribbon 65b7 and under 5a. !tep ;. 1ull the ends taut.

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