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although it is often dismissed somewhat contemptuously as a false sheet bend.
Several contemporary knot tyers—all members of the International Guild of
Knot Tyers—have separately come forward in support of it. They include Pieter
van de Griend (Faroe Islands), Charles Warner (Australia) and Robert Pont
(France) who in Knotting Matters (April 1996) told of its use in Lapland in knife
lanyards as well as for hitching reindeers to sleds.