How to tie a round Haori himo with pompom
(A round haori-himo can be worn on formal and casual occasions)
Knot with 4 rings / double knot

Knot with 2 rings / single knot


Once more, the single and double knot versions


Round Himo single knot / 2 rings
This is a nice and formal knot. A standard.
Step 1
Take your himo, put them together and fold them at about the width of your hand.


Step 2
Hold them with one hand with the pompoms at the front. Take the right back himo, make it a loop around the whole thing and make it go under its start to make a knot. Tighten.



Step 3
Do the same with the left himo, tighten, and you're done!


front

back

Round Himo double knot / 4 rings
A formal and rich knot.
Some people don't like to wear this knot for their wedding because they say you only ever marry one time.
Step 1
Take your himo, put them together and fold them at about the width of your hand.

Take your himo, put them together and fold them at about the width of your hand.

Step 2
Turn it around and hold it with one hand. Make a tiny loop with both himo behind the pompoms.
hold that loop by placing a finger within.

Turn it around and hold it with one hand. Make a tiny loop with both himo behind the pompoms.
hold that loop by placing a finger within.

Step 3
Turn it around so that the pompoms are facing you. Make a first loop around the whole thing with both himo. Be careful not to loose the first tiny loop we made behind the pompoms.

Turn it around so that the pompoms are facing you. Make a first loop around the whole thing with both himo. Be careful not to loose the first tiny loop we made behind the pompoms.

Step 4
Make a second loop around.

Make a second loop around.

Step 5
Turn the thing around have make both himo go through the tiny loop we made at the beginning.

Turn the thing around have make both himo go through the tiny loop we made at the beginning.

Step 6
Tighten

Tighten

Step 7
And you're done

And you're done

The original page where these images came from can be found at Immortal Geisha forum
* When the Haori pom pom is crumpled
What if I come to this, let's rely on the steam to the portion of the bunch. This is suitable good to held over the mouth of the boiling to have a kettle, it would be good to rely a little release the iron of steam (it'd better not press directly bunch with an iron). And it becomes exactly 100% original and can not be guaranteed, but in so became bunches, to return to the somehow the original as in the photo below.



* Attaching the Haori-himo ends to the Haori jacket.
