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The Anchor Knot or Anchor Bend is a secure, reliable knot for most types of ropes and lines. Excellent for attaching a boat to a ring styled mooring, or even a rope to an anchor. Also excellent for attaching a lead to a halter.
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This barrel hitch employs the use of a ready made strop or sling.
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The barrel sling allows an open ended barrel or drum to be hoisted upright.
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The Bowstring Knot is ideal for Lasso (Lariat) development or even making a loop for attachment to a longbow string.
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The Bowyer's hitch is, as the name implies, designed for hauling timber at the end of a length of rope. It is a good selection because it is quickly tied, never jams and is equally quickly untied.
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The Buglars Braid is both practical and decorative. It shortens a cord, line or rope without the need to cut it and can be easily untied to any point.
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The Chain Sennit is both practical and decorative. It shortens a cord, line or rope without the need to cut it and can be easily untide to any point.
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The Chain Shortening is both practical and decorative. It shortens a cord, line or rope without the need to cut it and can be easily untide to any point.
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The Countryman's hitch is, as the name implies, designed for hauling timber at the end of a length of rope. It is a good selection because it is quickly tied, never jams and is equally quickly untied.
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The Double English Sliding Loop makes the idea loop to hold spectacle or sunglasses arms to allow them to be hung around ones neck or simply a strong loop to hold almost any object in any situation.
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The Drummer's Plait is both practical and decorative. It shortens a cord, line or rope without the need to cut it and can be easily untied to any point.
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The Englishman's loop is a very old loop that has its origins with primtive fishermen. The Englishmans loop is an easily tied, adjustable loop and can be tied in most materials, although slips when tied in nylon based lines.
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The Fiadore knot is often overlooked due to its perceived complexity but it is an almost unmatched knot to form a headgear piece to rein a horse in.
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The Fireman's Chair can be used for light rescue when a harness is not available.
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The Fishermans Loop is a very old loop that has its origins with primitive fishermen. The Fishermans Loop is an easily tied, adjustable loop and can be tied in most materials, although slips when tied in nylon based lines.
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The Fransciscan Knot is used for the purpose of providing a weighted end to a rope or cord, helping it to be passed from ship to shore or up over a high branch etc.
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The Grapevine Sliding Loop makes the idea loop to hold spectacle or sunglasses arms to allow them to be hung around ones neck or simply a strong loop to hold almost any object in any situation.
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Excellent bend for joining webbing, tape or cords and holds well when wet.
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The Halter hitch is a simple method of hitching to a rail or post. Its advantage is the ease of tying and releasing, even after a considerable load has been applied.
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As the name implies, the Handcuff Knot is used to restrain the limbs of a person, however, it can also be used to act as a hobble.
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The Heaving Line Bend is not to be confused with the Heaving Line Knot. The bend is used for joining two lines, usually of dissimilar sizes and weight together.
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The Heaving Line Knot is used for the purpose of providing a weighted end to a rope or cord, helping it to be passed from ship to shore or up over a high branch etc.
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The Honda Knot is ideal for Lasso (Lariat) development or even making a loop for attachment to a longbow string.
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The Hunter's Bend is a useful knot for joining slippery lines such as polypropylene and other nylon based cords and lines.
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The Icicle Hitch is an excellent knot that will grip a frictionless surface. Should you have the need to drag smooth piping eg PVC or hoist scaffolding, poles etc., the Icicle Hitch is the ideal knot.
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The Jury Mast Knot was essentially formed to provide three or four loops around a temporary mast to which stays can be attached.
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The Klemheist knot is a favourite amongst climbers and campers and bears some resemblance to the French Prusik knot.
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The Kreuzklem Knot is a simple hitch which is useful due to its being very safe. Initially used by climbers, the Kreuzklem Knot is now is often used by riggers and yachtsman as a means of ensuring a safe belay to anchor lines.
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he Lanyard Loop, besides being attractive, makes a useful loop with decorative bulb for attaching items such as key rings, knives etc etc.
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Surgeon's uses the Litagure Knot to tie off stitching and is handy in that case in that the mutiple wraps help hold the required pressure while the locking portion of the knot is tied.
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The Lighterman's Hitch is primarily used to moor a vessel to a bollard although it is handy for other applications.
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The locked Halter hitch is a simple method of hitching to a rail or post. Its advantage is the ease of tying.
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The Lumberman's hitch is, as the name implies, designed for hauling timber at the end of a length of rope. It is a good selection because it is quickly tied, never jams and is equally quickly untied.
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The Magner's Hitch is used to attach a line to a rod, pole, spar or another rope. It advantage is it great ability to hold under lateral tension. It is designed to withstand lengthwise movement when pulled from a single angle.
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The Magnus Hitch is used to attach a line to a rod, pole, spar or another rope. It advantage is it great ability to hold under lateral tension. It is designed to withstand lengthwise movement when pulled from a single angle.
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The Man O' War Sheepshank can be used to by-pass damaged line without the need to cut and splice. Also makes a decorative display for those wishing to brighten up a room or display board.
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The Mariners knot can be used a terminal knot to take the weight of an object attached to an anchor rope and is thus very useful.
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The Marline hitch is, strictly speaking an in-between knot. It can only be tied around a spar or pole, once a securing knot like the timber hitch or the constrictor knot has been tied.
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The Masthead Knot was essentially formed to provide three or four loops around a temporary mast to which stays can be attached.
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The Midshipman's Hitch provides a loop at the end of a line that can be changed in size by sliding the knot up or down the standing line.
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The Monk's Knot is used for the purpose of providing a weighted end to a rope or cord, helping it to be passed from ship to shore or up over a high branch etc.
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The Monkey Chain is both practical and decorative. It shortens a cord, line or rope without the need to cut it and can be easily untied to any point.
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The Monkey's Fist is most often used in the end of a line to act as a weight to assist in the lines casting as in ship to shore.
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The mooring hitch is primarily used to moor a vessel to a bollard although it is handy for other applications.
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The Navy Sheepshank can be used to by-pass damaged line without the need to cut and splice. Also makes a decorative display for those wishing to brighten up a room or display board.
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The Ocean Plait Mat makes a most decorative entrance for any home or galley.
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The Oklahoma hitch, as the name implies, is useful for suspending timber struts such as those used in scaffolding or for a swing. The Oklahoma hitch can also be used as a clamp knot to hold two objects together while nailing or gluing takes place.
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The Ossel Hitch is an attractive and simple method of attaching one line to another and will not come undone when rotated like other knots.
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The Packer's Knot is handy for pulling a line taut around an object and gripping it while it is secured with a half hitch.
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When a jug or pitcher is slung within the Jury Mast Knot it becomes known as the Pitcher Knot.
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Pole Lashing, as the name implies, is useful for suspending timber struts such as those used in scaffolding or for a swing. Pole Lashing can also be used as a clamp knot to hold two objects together while nailing or gluing takes place. Pole Lashing is thu
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The Prusik Knot can be used to attach a sling strop to vertical or horizontal rope spans.
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The Racking Bend is more secure than the sheet bend and is well suited to attaching lighter cordage to heavier (larger) hawser.
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The Reef knots sole purpose should be to tie off a single line, acting as a binding knot. Therefore it will always be work in line of equal weight, texture and size.
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The Rigger's Bend is a useful knot for joining slippery lines such as polypropylene and other nylon based cords and lines.
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Excellent bend for joining webbing, tape or cords and holds well when wet.
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The Rolling Hitch is used to attach a line to a rod, pole, spar or another rope. It advantage is it great ability to hold under lateral tension. It is designed to withstand lengthwise movement when pulled from a single angle.
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The ability to construct a temporary, or permanent rope ladder is indeed handy.
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The round turn with two half hitches is a dependable knot due to its ability to hold well under almost any conditions.
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The Sailor's Knife Lanyard Knot, besides being attractive, makes a useful loop with decorative bulb for attaching items such as key rings, knives etc etc.
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The scaffold hitch, as the name implies, is useful for suspending timber struts such as those used in scaffolding or for a swing.
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The Shake Hands Bend is an excellent line joining bend for light cordage through to heavier ropes. Easy to tie, easy to adjust and easy to untie, sums this bend up in a nutshell.
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The Sheepshank is useful for shortening a length of rope. Also used to bypass a section of line or rope that you may suspect the integrity.
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The Sheet Bend serves almost every purpose well providing it is tied with two ends of similar material.
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The Spider Hitch is a very quick and easy way of forming a loop or double in line.
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The Square Knot is best known as a Reef Knot, however, when used in decorative and macrame work it is best known as the Square Knot.
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Square lashing is used to lash two poles together at right angles to one another.
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The surgeon's knot is not a preferred line joining knot, although fly fisherman and some anglers use it from time to time. All too often confused with the multi overhand knot.
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Excellent bend for joining webbing, tape or cords and holds well when wet.
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The Theodore Knot is often overlooked due to its perceived complexity but it is an almost unmatched knot to form a headgear piece to rein a horse in.
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Although more complicated to tie, the threaded figure-of-eight loop is a preferred knot for climbers over and above a double Bowline simply because it is less likely to collapse and to be miss-tied.
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The Timber hitch is, as the name implies, designed for hauling timber at the end of a length of rope. It is a good selection because it is quickly tied, never jams and is equally quickly untied.
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The Killick is used to hold the working end of the line along the log or pole that is to be dragged. This simply helps holding the pole or log length ways during the drag or pulling process.
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The Transom knot provides a binding quite similar to the constrictor knot. It is most commonly used to secure two linear objects that are at right angles to one another.
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The Tugboat Hitch is primarily used to moor a vessel to a bollard although it is handy for other applications.
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