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