Knots
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Knots are useful for rigging for one thing.
Problem: Practical knots are not documented very systematically.
This makes learning them much faster via systematical understanding impossible and thus much slower.
Solution attempt here: Find better ways to systematically cover them to make it easier to learn them.
Contents
[hide]Interlocking overhand knots
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeppelin_bend ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeppelin_loop )
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_bend ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_loop )
- Shake_hands_bend (not on Wikipedia?)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley%27s_bend
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter%27s_bend (or Rigger)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_lover%27s_knot
- And other unnamed bad ones useful for full systematic coverage and mistake avoidance
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisherman%27s_knot
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_knot (ornamental)
Interlocking unknots
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrick_bend ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrick_bend_loop )
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reef_knot
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thief_knot
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granny_knot
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grief_knot
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheet_bend (two variants)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowline
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowboy_bowline
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo_bowline
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_hitch (well known trivial)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clove_hitch
- ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buntline_hitch
- ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground-line_hitch
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constrictor_knot (self-dissolving)
- ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strangle_knot (not unknot!)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noose
- ?? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Span_loop (self dissolving?)
Ornamental:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reever_Knot
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harness_bend
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship_knot ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship_knot_loop )
Overhand knot variants
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strangle_knot
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noose (and double and multiple)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_overhand_noose (self dissolving)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_overhand_knot
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisherman%27s_knot
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_fisherman%27s_knot
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_fisherman%27s_knot
Parallel threaded knots
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noose
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offset_overhand_bend
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overhand_loop
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flemish_bend (figure eight)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_figure-eight_loop
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure-eight_loop
Friction knots
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_hitch (slower to tie but better & neater)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_hitch
Related
External links
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_knot_terminology
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Guild_of_Knot_Tyers
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ashley_Book_of_Knots
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Knots
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Bend_knots
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Binding_knots
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Jamming_knots
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Loop_knots
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Knot_stubs
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Double_knots
