Knots

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.

Interlocking overhand knots

• 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 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

• 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)

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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 in line) 🤝
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offset_overhand_bend 🤝 💩 ☠️
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overhand_loop 🤠

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• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flemish_bend (figure eight in-line) 🤝
• 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 💪

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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