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Close-up of a shoelace knot. The shoelace knot, or bow knot, is commonly used for tying shoelaces and bow ties. The shoelace knot is a doubly slipped reef knot formed by joining the ends of whatever is being tied with a half hitch, folding each of the exposed ends into a loop and joining the loops with a second half hitch. The size of the loops ...
The discovery of all possible ways to tie a tie depends on a mathematical formulation of the act of tying a tie. In their papers (which are technical) and book (which is for a lay audience, apart from an appendix), the authors show that necktie knots are equivalent to persistent random walks on a triangular lattice, with some constraints on how the walks begin and end.
Thief knot – resembles the reef knot except that the free, or working, ends are on opposite sides; Threefoil knot – another term for a trefoil knot; Thumb knot a.k.a. overhand knot – one of the most fundamental knots and forms the basis of many others; Timber hitch – used to attach a single length of rope to a cylindrical object
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It is difficult to tie by mistake, unlike the granny knot, unless one attempts to tie a square knot in a similar manner to a sheet bend (which is the correct way to tie a thief knot), then it is possible to tie accidentally. The thief knot is much less secure than the already insecure reef knot. It unties itself if the lines are pulled when the ...
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