| Dear Olmander: I agree with Blaire. Double knotting will make it more flexible and will lengthen it a bit. Since you only have 24 knots to add, it may not lengthen it enough. I would turn the points of the pearls to face each other and possibly put a small gold bead 2MM between the points. I would then knot the rounded ends of the pearls which are now facing each other. What you will then have is something which looks like pearl bows.
Its hard to see the clasp to know if it will be difficult to restring. If you double knot between the pointed ends, I'm afraid it might not be as pleasing to your eye, which is probably why it wasn't knotted in the first place.
Those pearls are much too pretty to be ignored.
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Pretty Panda pic by nlerner on her U.S. excursion last year, San Diego Zoo.[/size][/size]
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