Knots

Knots are useful for rigging for one thing.
For why rigging may be relevant in the context of this wiki see page: Rigging

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.

This page is NOT about mathematical knots and links which need to be one or more closed loops.
There exists some interesting work on a "periodic table of mathematical knots and links" but for
the aim here to make learning easier by organizing practical knots more systematically
this would not fit the purpose and miss the point.

Still there is huge room for more systematic organization and didactic presentation.

Interlocking overhand knots

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All basic interlocking overhand knots. Systematic coverage of all combinatorically possibilities. Featuring all to the six possible transformations. (wiki-TODO: There is an error in the "Dustley" to fix, the pull-through on the right bright-red side needs to flip all crossings to over-over-under-under-loose-end-out.)

(wiki-TODO: Add the "periodic table of interlinking overhand knots" graphic. And link to knot forum post.)

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeppelin_bend 🤝 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeppelin_loop 🤠 & in-line 🛑)
• 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 but useful for full systematic coverage and mistake avoidance

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• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisherman%27s_knot 🤝
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_knot (ornamental) 🌸

Interlocking unknots

(wiki-TODO: Add illustrations.)

• 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 (granny + thief) 🤦
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheet_bend (two variants – same sides 🤝 opposite sides 💩)

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• 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?) 🤠?

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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/Water_knot (overhand) 🤝?
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offset_overhand_bend 🤝 💩 ☠️
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overhand_loop 🤠 (not the noose)

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• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flemish_bend (figure eight) 🤝
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offset_figure-eight_bend 🤝
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_figure-eight_loop 🤠
• ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure-eight_loop 🤠 )
• ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure-eight_knot 🪢 )

Friction knots

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_hitch (slower to tie but better & neater) 💪
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_hitch ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taut-line_hitch ) 💪
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamming_knot 💪🤠🎁

Legend

• 🪢 basic knot
• 🤝 bend - connecting end to end
• 💪 friction knot
• 💩 ☠️ bad and dangerous
• ⭕ hitch knot
• 🎁 packing knot
• 🤠 fixed noose
• 🤠⭕ sliding loop
• 💪🤠🎁 strangling loop
• 😈 secret tampering surveilance
• 🛑 stopper knot

Relation to nanoscale

Nanotubes are likely not very suitable to tie knots into them
as smaller bending radii will make them collapse king and cause breakage of covalent bonds.

Related

• Rigging

External links

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_knot_terminology
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Guild_of_Knot_Tyers

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• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ashley_Book_of_Knots
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_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

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Knot forum discussions

• 2021 – Topic: novel table for interllocking overhands bends