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Making a rope very tight, such as to secure an object to a vehicle. Caveat. Can produce excessive wear on rope, especially if tied repeatedly in the same spot [6] ABoK. #1514, #2124, #2125, #2126. Instructions. [1] The trucker's hitch is a compound knot commonly used for securing loads on trucks [7] or trailers.
Instructions. [1] Three knots often referred to as "true lover's knot", tied into a single line forming a loop. 1: also known as a Dutch bend; 2: also known as Matthew Walker knot; 3: also known as fisherman's knot /loop. The term true lover's knot, also called true love knot or simply love-knot amongst others, is used for many distinct knots.
Instructions. [1] A Turk's head knot, sometimes known as a sailor's knot, is a decorative knot with a variable number of interwoven strands forming a closed loop. The name refers to a general family of knots, not an individual knot. While this knot is typically made around a cylinder, it can also be formed into a flat, mat-like shape.
Instructions. [1] A Matthew Walker knot is a decorative knot that is used to keep the end of a rope from fraying. It is tied by unraveling the strands of a twisted rope, knotting the strands together, then laying up the strands together again. It may also be tied using several separate cords, in which case it keeps the cords together in a bundle.
Petal projection. A petal projection is a description of a knot as a special kind of knot diagram, a two-dimensional self-crossing curve formed by projecting the knot from three dimensions down to a plane. In a petal projection, this diagram has only one crossing point, forming a topological rose. Every two branches of the curve that pass ...
A friction hitch or knot used to put a loop of cord around a rope, applied in climbing, canyoneering, mountaineering, caving, rope rescue, and by arborists. Rolling hitch (Taut-line hitch) Schwabisch hitch. A friction hitch tied around a thicker rope that can slide while unloaded, but locks when loaded. Similar to the Prusik.
The stein knot (also known as a stone knot) is a variation of the figure-eight knot. It is used to secure a rope that is already passed around a post or through a ring. It is quick and easy to tie and untie. It is a device rigging rather than a true knot. In canyoneering, it is used to isolate rope strands to allow one person to rappel while ...
A knot diagram with crossings labelled for a Dowker sequence. In the mathematical field of knot theory, the Dowker–Thistlethwaite (DT) notation or code, for a knot is a sequence of even integers. The notation is named after Clifford Hugh Dowker and Morwen Thistlethwaite, who refined a notation originally due to Peter Guthrie Tait.