This amazing and beautiful reference book describes 3900 kinds of knots, illustrating them with 7000 line drawings, most showing the knots as they are actually used--in angling, weaving, sailing, tailoring, and much more.
Features of this work include: over 200 tying techniques comprehensively illustrated in step-by-step photographs; all the key knot types covered: bends, hitches, bindings, loops, mats, plaits, rings and slings; knot categories include angling and fishing, boating and sailing, caving and climbing, general purpose and outdoor pursuits; information ...
Truly comprehensive in scope, this Encyclopedia begins with a history of knots and rope making, and proceeds into the how to of tying and of making useful and decorative articles with rope. More than 3,600 knots are described and illustrated in 348 full-page plates. "If you are interested in knots for any reason at all, it's the one book you need. ...
This practical guide to tying more than 100 different kinds of knots features step-by-step, illustrated instructions for each knot, plus information about the construction, storage, maintenance, and usage of rope. 800 photos & illustrations. Charts.
Hervey Garrett Smith was the foremost marine illustrator of the 1950s and 1960s, and his wonderful drawings of traditional ropework quickly propelled The "Marlinspike Sailor" to cult classic status when it was published in 1956. With the addition of a section on modern, synthetic rope in the 1970s, its popularity has continued undiminished to this ...
An entirely different kind of knot book, this compact, practical guide takes full advantage of color photography to teach readers how to tie 70 of the most useful knots they can know. Unlike illustrations, the photos show every step looking over the shoulder of the tier. Color-coding makes the ropes easy to distinguish. 647 photos.
Combining and updating the renowned "Rigger's Apprentice" and "Rigger's Locker", "The Complete Rigger's Apprentice" meets the changing face of modern materials and technology while remaining true to rigging's best traditional principles and practices. It's much more than a knot book, though the knots a sailor needs are all here. It's a book for ...
The Klutz Book of Knots is a tool meant to be used as well as read. The board pages are specially die-cut so that each of the 24 knots shown can be practiced directly next to its illustration.
This comprehensive book presents more than 60 beautiful--and functional--knots with clear, step-by-step line illustrations that explain each phase of the properly-tied knot. Includes lanyard knots for decorative braidwork, "Turk's head" knots for decorative handgrips, and more.
Celtic art is renowned for its complex and stylized interwoven patterns of coils and swirls. Here this "Celtic knotwork" is provided in basic patterns for use in paper, fabric, metal and wood crafts. Through a step-by-step process, the author breaks down the plotting of even complicated designs, allowing the freedom to create and plot your own ...
Eye splices, roll splices, tail splices, short and long splices; grommets; lock tucks in various eye splices; flexible and non-flexible cable splices used in aircraft cord -- these and many other operations are explained in simple language and are illustrated by clear line drawings and photographs. Directions for meshing and socketing, helpful ...
Teaches the reader the Twelve Essential Climbing Knots, and then presents eighteen others for various special situations. Color illustrations make learning these knots a cinch.
Why criss-cross your shoelaces when you can ladder, zipper, checkerboard, double helix, spider web, lattice, union jack, sawtooth, or turquoise turtle them? This fun, fascinating, and addictive guide features flaps and eyelets just like a shoe, and comes with laces so you can practice yourself. Some make the footwear tighter and more secure, while ...
The only book devoted completely to slicing today's ropes, this fully illustrated, step-by-step guide has been expanded and enhanced in this new edition and now covers wire splices, and splices in Spectra and Kevlar ropes as well as Dacron braid and traditional three-strand. The Splicing Handbook includes every splice project a boater will ever ...
Max does it again but this time with more color and incredible new projects. His new book, Hemp Masters - Getting Knotty, is a simple, easy to follow, instructional guide to creating outstanding hemp jewelry and building upon the success of the first book, features greater use of colored hemp and more fantastic patterns. With market tested ...
A complete, comprehensive, and useful book devoted to nautical knots. Well-known rigger Brion Toss covers more than 100 knots, describing for each its uses, advantages, and disadvantages, and explaining in simple, step-by-step, fully illustrated instructions how to tie it. Illustrated.
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