The Knot Handbook
50 Essential Knots and Their Uses
Published on 12. September 2023
Book
Hardback
112 pages
978-1-78494-674-6 (ISBN)
Description
The Knot Handbook is an essential guide to 50 knots and their uses.
A fresh redesign of the bestselling The Knot Handbook, this book is an old favourite of a classic craft that is now being re-imagined for new and old readers alike.
This book shows readers how to tie 50 knots. Some have been chosen for their fame, some for their beauty, and some because they are knots that everyone should know how to tie. On every great theme, there are always possible variations, and, as the text makes clear, from time to time people come up with new effective methods of tying. Some of us may be destined to create knots that will bear our names for eternity, but first we need to study the time-honoured techniques: an intricate art that has been practised since before poetry or painting were dreamt of, which can't be mastered in five minutes.
Many of the knots featured are strongly associated with - and probably originated - from sailing, but even the saltiest of them have extensive applications on land: adhesive tape and Velcro have their uses, but they have not rendered knots redundant; no technological advance ever will.
Knots are classified by their areas of use: climbing, boating, scouting, camping, arborist, rescue, fishing, household, archery, general, equestrian, livestock, indicated by colour coded symbols.
A fresh redesign of the bestselling The Knot Handbook, this book is an old favourite of a classic craft that is now being re-imagined for new and old readers alike.
This book shows readers how to tie 50 knots. Some have been chosen for their fame, some for their beauty, and some because they are knots that everyone should know how to tie. On every great theme, there are always possible variations, and, as the text makes clear, from time to time people come up with new effective methods of tying. Some of us may be destined to create knots that will bear our names for eternity, but first we need to study the time-honoured techniques: an intricate art that has been practised since before poetry or painting were dreamt of, which can't be mastered in five minutes.
Many of the knots featured are strongly associated with - and probably originated - from sailing, but even the saltiest of them have extensive applications on land: adhesive tape and Velcro have their uses, but they have not rendered knots redundant; no technological advance ever will.
Knots are classified by their areas of use: climbing, boating, scouting, camping, arborist, rescue, fishing, household, archery, general, equestrian, livestock, indicated by colour coded symbols.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
GMC Publications
Illustrations
417 Illustrations, color; 11 Halftones, color
Dimensions
Height: 131 mm
Width: 186 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
284 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78494-674-6 (9781784946746)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
George Lewis is the author of several books including Mates for Life and Strange Mates (Ammonite Press) and Castles and Waterfalls (Park Lane Books). He also contributes to newspapers, magazines, encyclopedias and partworks. Lewis learned about knots in the 1950s from herring fishermen on his ancestral Isle of Man. Pupil and teachers have long gone their separate ways: the former, like most Manxmen, to the British mainland through economic necessity; the latter into the history books after the Irish Sea was trawled to near exhaustion. Lewis retains the traditional knowledge and here demonstrates that knots can give us so much more than the means to catch the traditional accompaniment to chips.
Content
Introduction 6
Alpine Butterfly Loop 8
Anchor Bend 10
Angler's Knot 12
Ashley Stopper Knot 14
Blackwall Hitch 16
Blood Knot 18
Boa Knot 20
Bowline 21
Bowstring Knot 22
Brummel Eye Splice 24
Buntline Hitch 26
Carrick Bend 28
Cat's Paw 32
Chain Sennit 34
Chain Splice 36
Cleat Hitch 38
Clove Hitch 40
Constrictor Knot 42
Cow Hitch 43
Double Dragon 44
Double Fisherman's Bend 46
Eye Splice 50
Half Hitch 52
Handcuff Knot 54
Klemheist Knot 56
Lanyard Knot 58
Lighterman's Hitch 60
Lover's Knot 63
Man Harness Knot 64
Marlinspike Hitch 66
Midshipman's Hitch 68
Monkey's Fist 70
Myrtle Hitch 74
Noose 76
Overhand Knot 78
Prusik Knot 80
Reef Knot 82
Rolling Hitch 84
Rope Ladder Knot 86
Sheepshank 88
Sheet Bend 90
Surgeon's Knot 98
Thief Knot 100
Threaded Figure Eight 102
Timber Hitch 104
Trucker's Hitch 106
Turle Knot 108
Zeppelin Bend 110
Alpine Butterfly Loop 8
Anchor Bend 10
Angler's Knot 12
Ashley Stopper Knot 14
Blackwall Hitch 16
Blood Knot 18
Boa Knot 20
Bowline 21
Bowstring Knot 22
Brummel Eye Splice 24
Buntline Hitch 26
Carrick Bend 28
Cat's Paw 32
Chain Sennit 34
Chain Splice 36
Cleat Hitch 38
Clove Hitch 40
Constrictor Knot 42
Cow Hitch 43
Double Dragon 44
Double Fisherman's Bend 46
Eye Splice 50
Half Hitch 52
Handcuff Knot 54
Klemheist Knot 56
Lanyard Knot 58
Lighterman's Hitch 60
Lover's Knot 63
Man Harness Knot 64
Marlinspike Hitch 66
Midshipman's Hitch 68
Monkey's Fist 70
Myrtle Hitch 74
Noose 76
Overhand Knot 78
Prusik Knot 80
Reef Knot 82
Rolling Hitch 84
Rope Ladder Knot 86
Sheepshank 88
Sheet Bend 90
Surgeon's Knot 98
Thief Knot 100
Threaded Figure Eight 102
Timber Hitch 104
Trucker's Hitch 106
Turle Knot 108
Zeppelin Bend 110