Rember that the right hand must be kept perfectly still as long as the left is in motion, and that the knot must be formed of the loop silk that is in the left hand.

     The right hand, or shuttle silk, must always be free to run through the knots: if it were itself formed into knots it would not have the free play needed for loosening and tightening the loop on the left hand, as required.

     FOURTH POSITION OF THE HANDS (Fig. 4).
The second part of a knot is formed by the following movements:

Pass the shuttle, as in Fig. 4, from left to right, between the first and third fingers through the extended loop; the right hand seizes the shuttle in front of the empty loop and extends the silk; the left hand pulls up this second part of the knot as it did the first. As it is necessary to thoroughly understand making this "double knot," it is well to practice on it untill it can be made rapidly.

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