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  2. Rug hooking - Wikipedia

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    A craftsperson creates a hooked rug by pulling lengths of cloth, usually wool, through a woven fabric, usually burlap.. Rug hooking is both an art and a craft where rugs are made by pulling loops of yarn or fabric through a stiff woven base such as burlap, linen, or rug warp.

  3. Crochet - Wikipedia

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    Crochet is traditionally worked from a written pattern using standard abbreviations or from a diagram, thus enabling non-English speakers to use English-based patterns. [32] To help counter confusion when reading patterns, a diagramming system using a standard international notation has come into use (illustration, left).

  4. Reef knot - Wikipedia

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    The reef knot, or square knot, is an ancient and simple binding knot used to secure a rope or line around an object. It is sometimes also referred to as a Hercules knot or Heracles knot . The knot is formed by tying a left-handed overhand knot between two ends, instead of around one end, and then a right-handed overhand knot via the same ...

  5. Dots and boxes - Wikipedia

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    Example game of Dots and Boxes on a 2×2 square board. The second player ("B") plays a rotated mirror image of the first player's moves, hoping to divide the board into two pieces and tie the game. But the first player ("A") makes a sacrifice at move 7 and B accepts the sacrifice, getting one box.

  6. Zeppelin bend - Wikipedia

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    In fact, with any 'end-to-end joining knot' (i.e. bend), existing tension in the ropes makes the tying process extremely difficult (if not impossible). The zeppelin is therefore tied with two loose ends (i.e. no existing tension) ending with a simple knot on each, but woven to each other in a pattern specific to zeppelin.

  7. Scarf joint - Wikipedia

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    A plain scarf joint A nibbed scarf joint A keyed, nibbed scarf, reinforced with fish plates and through bolts The scarf joint used on the beams above the post is known by its French name, trait de jupiter, or bolt-o-lightning joint.

  8. Nine dots puzzle - Wikipedia

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    To do so, one goes outside the confines of the square area defined by the nine dots themselves. The phrase thinking outside the box, used by management consultants in the 1970s and 1980s, is a restatement of the solution strategy. According to Daniel Kies, the puzzle seems hard because we commonly imagine a boundary around the edge of the dot ...

  9. Jonathan Higgins - Wikipedia

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    The rich, eccentric (and perpetually travelling) Masters was largely an offstage character on the show, though frequently referred to. After Orson Welles (who voiced Robin Masters) died, the show's writers decided to have Thomas Magnum, a private investigator and Head of Security for Robin's Nest, begin to suspect Higgins is Robin Masters