"Four Diamonds" (Jacob's Ladder) and Increment Methods

Four Diamonds (Jacob's Ladder)

1. Do Opening A and release thumbs.

2. Thumbs move under intervening strings and pick up the far little-finger string.



3. Thumbs move over the near index-finger string and pick up far index-finger strings.



4. Release little fingers. (You can exchange Step 3 and Step 4.)

5. Little fingers move over near index-finger strings and pick up far thumb strings. Release thumbs.

6. Thumbs move over index-finger loops and pick up near little-finger strings.

7. Expand index-finger loops and hang them on thumbs. Navajo thumbs.

  

8. Index fingers move into the triangles. Release little fingers. Index fingers move away from you to extend the pattern.
  Index-finger loops drop naturally.



 Four Diamonds (Jacob's Ladder)

This ending procedure (Steps 7-8) is called Osage extension.

Four Diamonds without tangles

Instead of Step 3 of Jacob's Ladder, pass thumbs under the near index-finger string and pick up far index-finger strings.



Do Steps 4-8 of Jacob's Ladder.

 Four Diamonds (without tangles)

The tangles in Jacob's ladder (between 1st and 2nd, and 3rd and 4th diamonds) do not appear in this pattern.

Five and Six Diamonds

By doing the following steps between Steps 5 and 6 of Jacob's Ladder, you can add one diamond.

(i) The right (left) index finger moves away from you and twists its loop360-degrees.

(ii) The right (left) little finger moves away from you and twists its loop 360-degrees.

 Five Diamonds

If the twists are given to both left and right hand loops you can make Six Diamonds.

 Six Diamonds

This technique cannot be applied to Four Diamonds without tangles.Other procedures for four and six diamonds are shown at
http://www.alysion.org/figures/fairlyeasy.htm using movies.

Adding Two Diamonds

By doing the following steps between Steps 1 and 2 of Jacob's Ladder, you can add two diamonds.
Because this procedure is repeatable, you can make many diamonds in principle.

(i) Thumbs move under intervening strings, then move into little-finger loop from below and hook down the far little-finger string.
  Rotate thumbs down, toward you and back to position with the far little-finger string.

 



(ii) Thumbs move over near index-finger strings and pick up far index-finger strings.

(iii) Release little fingers.

(iv) Little fingers move over near index-finger strings and pick up far thumb strings. Release thumbs.

 Six Diamonds

 Eight Diamonds

You can add one or two diamonds further by twisting index- and little-finger loops in the same way as described above.

 Seven Diamonds

 Ten Diamonds

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