The document provides instructions for making both a basic and complex plaid friendship band. It outlines 24 steps to first make the basic plaid pattern by separating threads into sets and alternating their positions. It then details making the complex plaid pattern which involves tying individual threads in knots while retaining the original thread, completing one row at a time and repeating for additional rows until separating threads back into sets of two to finish with the basic plaid pattern and knot.