The Two-strand Footrope Knot

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The two-strand footrope knot is #783 in 'The Ashley Book of Knots'. It makes for simple neat paracord zipper pull, pocket knife fob or lanyard, and can be tied in a series and worked close together or spaced out.
A tightened knot of ungutted paracord uses about 4 inches of cord, so whatever your project, use that figure for how many knots you intend to tie, plus cord length of your loop, and one or two more inches for the end strands to tighten up the knot.
As an example, I used about a 9 inch length of paracord for a short fob/zipper pull with a two inch loop, one footrope knot, and end strands coming out of the knot at 1/2 inch long each.
An example of a paracord cross is shown, done with two separate strands of gutted paracord, one strand for the top knot, another for the bottom three knots, then strands from the top and bottom are paired off to tie the arms on each side, ends trimmed/melted to finish.
I used leftover paracord scraps for the cross, and think the top piece was a little over a foot long and probably two feet for the bottom piece, but that was more than was needed so I trimmed the excess.

[@House_of_Caine]

Quite easy, but beautiful knot

[@micky1thousand176]

Is it just me, or is this the same knot as the two strand Lanyard Knot, ( from another one of your videos) just tied from the opposite end? They look so much alike.

[@Stormdrane]

At a glance, many knots can look similar, but these are different, more easily seen when you've tied them and compare them side-by-side. ;)

[@freedom0rdeth]

Could you do a video on how to do a 2 strand cross knot ?