From TyingItAllTogether: The Celtic Heart Knot is the woven realization of a design I saw etched into a friend’s ring. Stunningly simple, yet at the same time perfectly evocative of a heart, the knot looks amazing as a center piece…
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How to Tie a Striped Crown Stennet
The Striped Crown Sinnet is the flipside of the Corkscrew Crown Sinnet. Although visually very different, the Stripped Crown Sinnet is merely the alternating form of the Corkscrew Crown Sinnet, as the following video shows. Video production by JD of…
How to Tie a Two Color Monkeys Fist
The Monkeys Fist is a classic knot used to add weight and grip to the end of a tossed line. Still, the knot is also elegant on its own. Having become a favored piece of paracord tyers, I decided to…
How to Tie a Bloodline (Video)
A blood knot (Barrel knot) is most usefully employed for joining sections of monofilament nylon line while maintaining a high portion of the line’s inherent strength. Other knots used for this purpose can cause a substantial loss of strength. In…
Ashley Book of Knots
This is a knot lover’s magnum opus. The Ashley Book of knots describes every practical knot, what it looks like, where it comes from, and how to tie it. The book includes 4,000 knots, with all the varieties of shipboard…
Handbook of Knots: Expanded Edition
This expanded edition of the bestselling Handbook of Knots includes 16 additional pages with new photography. Clear instructions and annotated step-by-step photographs will help you learn how to tie more than 100 knots. Choose knots for fishing, camping, sailing, climbing,…
How to Tie a Bowline (video)
Imagine the end of the rope as a rabbit, and where the knot will begin on the standing part, a tree trunk. First a loop is made near the end of the rope, which will act as the rabbit’s hole.…