Carol James went to Korea for a couple of weeks and took an intensive course on maedup (매듭) at Dong Lim Knot Museum. Luckily for us, to help herself remember, she's posted a number of videos to her YouTube channel.

She begins with the double connection (two strand Matthew Walker, 도래매듭, dorae maedup, machine translation: advent):

While not particularly decorative, this is visually interesting. It's a rope trick (and it's definitely a trick, watch her hands carefully. Here's the video:
http://www.math.toronto.edu/~drorbn/Gallery/KnottedObjects/WaistbandTric...

Here's a line diagram of what's happening from Kauffman's On Knots (page 98-99) via Google Books
http://books.google.co.jp/books?id=BLvGkIY8YzwC&pg=PA98

So, I'm going to the Bay area for Xmas this year and I was thinking: what do I want to do when I go there. Y'know other than shop. 8) And what I thought is that I'd really like to take one of Marion's workshops. Sure, I could probably experiment and figure out how to do the beaded edging on the donuts or how to get the lovely smoothly aligned yarns on her braids, but why should I? 8)

Marion is an artist who does beautiful fibre art jewelry, much of which is based on kumihimo, Chinese knotting and micromacrame. Also, wonderfully, she is unafraid to share her techniques through teaching. Originally from Switzerland, she now lives in the San Francisco area and does Asian fibre arts. What's not to love? 8)

The forget me knot ring is a rope-like ring topped with a bow knot. Available in silver or brass. (via)
http://fredflare.com/customer/product.php?productid=3367&cat=283&bf=hs#

A "sailor's knot" bracelet in New England (New Haven, Conneticut).
http://newhavenadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=13433

Beady Mum of Singapore makes a beaded Chinese knot necklace.
http://artybeadsmum.blogspot.com/2009/06/chinese-knot-necklace.html

Swimsuits with Chinese knot details from figleaves. (via
http://www.figleaves.com/uk/product.asp?product_id=FIG-097115&src=trddpu...

The Playground Bracelet is a combination of glass disc beads and knotted rattail.
http://www.interweavestore.com/store/p/3278-Playground-Bracelet.aspx?a=B...

This is a very long post, don't miss the video at the bottom!

eBay seller ryujapan-99 sells kimono and components (obi, kumihimo, fabric, etc). At one point the above lot of obi jime was up for auction and sadly I did not win. I wanted a closer look at that green obijime. I'm thinking that it's not actually kumihimo, but maybe a phoenix tail sinnet. Can you tell from looking? Let me know what you think!

See swathes of kumihimo in their signature showcase as part of samurai armour and armament at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, California. Exhibiting through September 20, 2009. (via)

A display of knots and fancy ropework by Alton C. Beaudoin at the New London Maritime Society's Custom House Maritime Museum in New London, Connecticut. The exhibit is on through August 2009. (via)
http://www.nlmaritimesociety.org/

Instructable (illustrated how-to) for making a handle with Portuguese sinnet (Solomon bar, cobra stich, macrame square knots).
http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-a-Wide-Sturdy-Handle-With-The-Portu...

Illustrated how to for tying a figure eight knot from the Examiner.
http://www.examiner.com/x-9599-Boulder-Rock-Climbing-Examiner~y2009m7d17...

And the double figure eight knot.
http://www.examiner.com/x-9599-Boulder-Rock-Climbing-Examiner~y2009m7d18...

A video how to for the square knot and bowline.
http://www.mynorth.com/My-North/July-2009/Outdoors-101-Knots-Every-Outdo...

South Korean ssamzisarang has been posting videos about Korean culture. They look somewhat like short segments from TV (interstitials?), but original or not, the video compression was dialed way up, at least on the good luck (chrysanthemum) knot video. The soundtracks on the videos are kinda distracting which makes me think that they are not professional productions, but I could easily be wrong.

In any case, there are only 2 knot-relevant videos:
동심결매듭 전통매듭 korean knot which is the good luck (chrysanthemum) knot and a 4 ear variant
전통매듭 Korean Knots - 자리매듭 brooch knot 만들기 which shows the ocean plat, if I'm not mistaken.

I've discovered the youTube channel of a 60 year old person (int301) in Taiwan which consists entirely of Chinese knotting instructions. The videos are silent, so the only language issue is the titles of the videos themselves. That's where I can help a bit. 8) The following translations are not formal with canonical knot names, they're just off the cuff notes I took for myself when I was looking at the videos

Looking at the full title of a video, the first one looks like this:
五福結 影片 中國結一線生機 提供

This part is duplicated, more or less in the title of almost all of the videos: 中國結一線生機 提供

Chinese Knot: 中國結
This part, I believe, means "video" more or less. Perhaps "instructional video", but I have put no effort into an actual translation: 一線生機 提供

五福結 interlocked double coin medallion
雙錢結 double coin
五股六花 circular mat (five:五, unit/ply/portion/section:股, six:六, flower:花)

Somewhere in China there is (or was) a street lined with giant glowing mystic knots.

Here's some more links to pictures (and descriptive text in Chinese) of the giant glowing knots:

http://hi.baidu.com/wengjijie/blog/item/71e181cff94d9d30b600c8d1.html
http://hi.baidu.com/wengjijie/blog/item/1f8d5d164da72f00c93d6dcb.html
http://hi.baidu.com/wengjijie/blog/item/3f0a358a0caa6f769e2fb4f7.html
http://hi.baidu.com/wengjijie/blog/item/345f00effb8372202df534d6.html

Based solely on the images, I'm guessing that this blog is from the manufacturer or supplier of the giant glowing knots who is reporting on appearances of the same.

Feeling unequal to the task of dealing with my massive backlog of links that I need to post at the time, I decided to fiddle with the blog itself. I put in a blogroll on the side, and a Google gadget to translate the page for people who would like a translation (I didn't read the source code before I included it, bad, Carol!, I wonder if the readers need enough English to read the "Google Translate" part... 8). I'm going to try it to see if it will translate all the non-English bits that are in this post into English. 8)

In any case, I was noticing that after the first few, the postings some of the blogs (while the content might be nice) were posted to very infrequently, at least of late (I should talk, eh?).

But, these topics, I would hope, are ones that could be covered in China/Taiwan, Korea, and Japan with probably greater skill, enthusiasm and local appreciation (not to mention other fun places like Singapore and the like).

My current automated searches were not turning up things that are not written in English, so could I, could I....?