• Thumbnail for Rigid double splayed loop in the bight
    The rigid double splayed loop in the bight is a knot that contains two parallel loops. Clifford Ashley wrote that it is "one of the firmest of the Double...
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  • Thumbnail for Karash double loop
    Karash double loop is a common name for a knot forming two loops. This knot has been a known variant of the Bowline on a bight per the International Guild...
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  • Thumbnail for Constrictor knot
    available: 1 : Bight turned into an underhand loop and slipped loosely over the end of the object 2 : The loop is grabbed from under, at the other side of...
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  • Hunter's bend – used to join two lines Rigid double splayed loop in the bight – knot that contains two parallel loops Ringbolt hitching Ring bend (water knot)...
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  • Thumbnail for Bowline on a bight
    The bowline on a bight is a knot which makes a pair of fixed-size loops in the middle of a rope. Its advantage is that it is reasonably easy to untie after...
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  • Thumbnail for Bight (knot)
    in the circuit of a given knot. Sources differ on whether an open loop or U-shaped curve in a rope qualifies as a bight. Ashley (1944) treats bights and...
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  • Thumbnail for Stevedore knot
    figure-eight knot. The bight is given one more half turn than in the former knot [which itself is given, "one additional half twist," more than the figure-eight...
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  • of rope. A bight is a slack part in the middle of a rope, usually a curve or loop. Knots that can be tied without access to either end of the rope are called...
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  • Thumbnail for Slip knot
    Slip knot (redirect from Adjustable loop)
    loophole and grab a bight on the working end. Draw this bight through the first loop. Seat the knot and pull the bight until a small loop is created. Knot...
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  • Thumbnail for Sheet bend
    Sheet bend (redirect from Double sheet bend)
    threads in the warp. The sheet bend may be tied by various methods: the basic "rabbit through the hole" method of forming a half hitch in the bight of the larger...
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  • Thumbnail for Two half-hitches
    slipped variation: in the second half-hitch, pass through a bight, as when tying your shoe, rather than the entire free end. The buntline hitch, when...
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  • Thumbnail for Double bowline
    name "double bowline" for a mid-line loop knot made by tying a basic bowline with a bight of rope instead of the end. First, learn to tie the bowline...
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  • Thumbnail for Trucker's hitch
    With Artillery loop as upper loop Truckers' Hitch With Span loop as upper loop Truckers' Hitch With Bowline on the bight as upper loop Truckers' Hitch...
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  • Thumbnail for Turk's head knot
    square. A two lead, 3 bight Turk's head is a double overhand knot. A two lead, three bight Turk's head is also a trefoil knot if the ends are joined together...
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  • Thumbnail for Zeppelin bend
    creating two fixed loops protruding from the knot core Zeppelin bend on bight with three very reliable fixed loops at the knot Double slipped zeppelin bend...
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  • Thumbnail for Figure-eight loop
    created by a loop on the bight. It is used in climbing and caving. The Flemish loop or figure-eight loop is perhaps stronger than the loop knot. Neither...
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  • Thumbnail for Bowline
    Bowline (category Loop knots)
    of the hole and around the tree). Other two-loop bowline knots include the Spanish bowline and the bowline on the bight; these can be tied in the middle...
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  • Thumbnail for Windsor knot
    Windsor knot (redirect from Double Windsor)
    The Windsor knot, sometimes referred to as a full Windsor (or misleadingly as a double Windsor) to distinguish it from the half-Windsor, is a knot used...
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  • Thumbnail for Carrick bend
    from the other. In this configuration the knot is known as the Josephine knot (macrame) or double coin knot (Chinese knotting). This form of the carrick...
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  • Thumbnail for Pile hitch
    Pile hitch (redirect from Double pile hitch)
    — The Ashley Book of Knots To tie, form a loop in the bight, and wrap both strands of this loop around the pole near the pole's end. Pull the loop around...
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  • Thumbnail for Marlinespike hitch
    the working part with the fingers until a loop forms and flops over the standing part. Use the rod to snag a bight of the standing part through the loop...
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  • Thumbnail for Munter hitch
    not going to the load) is tied to the load rope with a mule knot (aka halter hitch) – not a noose (slipped overhand)! – and the bight (loop) that sticks...
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  • Thumbnail for Cow hitch
    either with the end of the rope or with a bight. A simple and useful knotted structure, the cow hitch has been known since at least the first century...
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  • Thumbnail for Triple bowline
    Triple bowline (category Loop knots)
    on the length of the bight pulled through the loop. A bowline on the bight is a similar knot to the triple bowline. Instead of wrapping the bight around...
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  • Thumbnail for Knot
    Knot (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    than a bight but with separate ends. Two crossing points created by an extra twist in a loop or a circle. The standing end is the longer end of the rope...
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  • Thumbnail for Overhand knot with draw-loop
    sometimes used as a Slip Knot to form the loops of a Trucker's Hitch, or as a Stopper. Double Noose is used in arboriculture to fix a rope to a carabiner...
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  • Thumbnail for Rope splicing
    Rope splicing (redirect from Spliced loop)
    their strands. Splices can be used to form a stopper at the end of a line, to form a loop or an eye in a rope, or for joining two ropes together. Splices are...
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  • Thumbnail for Double overhand noose
    of knots The running end is stored in the bight. Foot loops tied with a zeppelin loop and an alpine butterfly knot. Ashley, Clifford W.. The Ashley Book...
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  • Thumbnail for Miller's knot
    8-4-The remaining slip is passed over the loop and under the knot bight pulled through the loop 8-5-The hole in the middle ready to be slipped over the swirled...
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  • Thumbnail for Artillery loop
    The artillery loop is a knot with a loop on the bight for non-critical purposes. The artillery loop must have the loop loaded or it will slip and contract...
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