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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 ...
When a shoelace is secured with a knot, the lace is crimped, or squashed. Primarily this is what stops the lace from coming undone. In effect, the lace is narrower inside the knot than it is on the loose end, and the loose end cannot make itself smaller and slide though the knot.
First called "constrictor knot" in Clifford Ashley's 1944 work The Ashley Book of Knots, this knot likely dates back much further. [5] Although Ashley seemed to imply that he had invented the constrictor knot over 25 years before publishing The Ashley Book of Knots, [1] research indicates that he was not its only originator, but his Book of Knots does seem to be the source of subsequent ...
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 ...
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The offset figure-eight bend is a poor knot that has been implicated in the deaths of several rock climbers. [1] [3] [4] The knot may capsize (invert) under load, as shown in the figure, and this can happen repeatedly. [5] Each inversion reduces the lengths of the tails. Once the tails are used up completely, the knot comes undone.
Sailor's knot a.k.a. carrick bend – used for joining two lines; San Diego Jam knot – a common fishing knot; Savoy knot a.k.a. figure-eight knot, Flemish knot – decorative, heraldic knot; Shear lashing; Sheepshank – used to shorten or store rope; Sheet bend – joins two ropes together; Shoelace knot – commonly used for tying shoelaces ...
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