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🧶 Knotted craft 🧶 To knot patterns
to macrame

to macrame

1 8.8
To knot cords together to make decorative items like bracelets
  • verb
  • /ˈmækrəˌmeɪ/
translation icon : hacer macramé
  • During the craft fair, she displayed all the items she had macramed, including keychains and bracelets.

Examples

  • Fuck yeah, they're the people who macrame and refurbish antiques—or would, or have that look like they might.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • She macramed belts, put turkey centerpieces on the table during Thanksgiving, and was repeatedly "Realtor of the Month."

    Fiction book (1997)

  • She decided to macrame a beautiful wall hanging for her living room.

  • After watching a tutorial, he learned how to macrame plant hangers with colorful cords.

How Intricate

to embroider
32 4.2
to macrame
1 8.8
weave
35 4.2
to tie
923 1.0

Surface Forms

macrame infinitive
macramed past
macramed past participle
macraming present participle
macrames third person singular

Etymology

Macrame as a verb comes from the same old words — French macramé, Turkish makrama, Arabic miqramah — which meant 'decorative fringe'. So to macrame is to make those fringes and decorations by knotting cords and threads.