Button knot
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A button knot is a knot that forms a bulge of thread. Button knots are essentially stopper knots, but may be esthetically pleasing enough to be used as a button on clothes.
{{Quote|The single-strand button is a third type of knob knot, in which the working end leaves the knot at the neck, parallel with the standing part, so that the two parts, or ends, together form a stem. The lay of the two ends is the same, and the knot is symmetrical throughout.|The Ashley Book of Knots{{ABOK|page=101}}}}
There are many methods for tying button knots, such as the Chinese button knot, the Celtic button knot and the monkey fist. The Ashley Book of Knots contains over a hundred examples.
File:CiftIpteDugmeTekkat.jpg|Celtic button knot single, with 4 steps of tying it
File:CiftIpteDugmeIkikat.JPG|Celtic button knot double, flat and tightened forms
File:DirsekteTekIpteDugmeHalkasi.JPG|Celtic button knot formed on the bight, untightened - flat
File:DirskteTekIpteDugmeCiftKat.JPG|Celtic button knot formed on the bight, tightened
File:CiftIpteDugmeOnden.JPG |Chinese button knot front side
File:CiftIpteDugmeArkadan.JPG |Chinese button knot back side
File:ÇiftİpteFenerGerdelFenerGerdelKöstekCevizi-1.jpg |Rose knot on 2 ropes step1 wall
File:ÇiftİpteFenerGerdelFenerGerdelKöstekCevizi-2.jpg |Rose knot on 2 ropes step2 crown
File:ÇiftİpteFenerGerdelFenerGerdelKöstekCevizi-3.jpg |Rose knot on 2 ropes step3
File:ÇiftİpteFenerGerdelFenerGerdelKöstekCevizi-4.jpg |Rose knot on 2 ropes step4 second wall
File:ÇiftİpteFenerGerdelFenerGerdelKöstekCevizi-5.jpg |Rose knot on 2 ropes step5
File:ÇiftİpteFenerGerdelFenerGerdelKöstekCevizi-6.jpg |Rose knot on 2 ropes step6 second crown and tucked ends
File:ÇiftİpteFenerGerdelFenerGerdelKöstekCevizi-7.jpg |Rose knot on 2 ropes top view
File:ÇiftİpteFenerGerdelFenerGerdelKöstekCevizi-8.jpg |Rose knot on 2 ropes side view
File:ÇiftİpteFenerGerdelFenerGerdelKöstekCevizi-9.jpg |Rose knot on 2 ropes back view, [https://www.animatedknots.com/stopper-loop-knot animated tying]
File:Rosenknoten,4-kardeelig (1).jpg|Rose knot on 4 ropes
File:Rosenknoten.wiki.(1).jpg| tying of Rose knot on 4 ropes
File:Gemelos-Camisa-Nudos.jpg|Pairs of monkey's fists formed as cufflinks in silk
File:Affenfaust.jpg|a larger monkey's fist formed with a thicker rope
File:Monkey's fist.jpg|a heavy monkey's fist for throwing with an eye splice