Page 9 - Forbes Pettigrew "A Few Good Knots"

The Overhand and Underhand Loop and Knot.

The Overhand and Underhand Loop, the Overhand Knot, along with the
Half Knot and the Half Hitch are the building blocks of knot making.

Note: In knot making the Overhand and Underhand Knot are often, but not
always interchangeable. Knot instructions tend to refer to the Overhand
Knot unless otherwise required.

This is not the case of the Overhand and Underhand Loop, the substitution
of one for the other requiring either different knot making instructions or in
many cases simply resulting in another knot or no knot at all.

Overhand and Underhand Loop and Knot Fig. 2

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A good example of this is the Bowline (pronounced bo-lyn) Knot, usually
referred to simply as the Bowline. This classic knot (see Fig. 18 and 19) is
made with the following instructions.
Overhand Loop:
Form an Overhand Loop in the Standing Part of the rope, pass the Working End
up through the loop, under the Standing Part, around and down through the loop.

Underhand Loop:
Form an Underhand loop in the standing part of the rope, pass the Working End
down through the loop, over the Standing Part, around and up through the loop.

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