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true Lover’s Knot
A multi-use entanglement for a bow or lanyard.
The legend goes something like this: In the sixteenth behind. What is not legend is this: The name became very
century, Dutch sailors began to intertwine two over- popular, and today quite a few knots bear the name true
hand knots to form a new knot they called the true lov- lover’s. It is also factual that all true lover’s knots share the
er’s knot. The intertwined overhand knots represented intimate mating of two overhands knots into a symmetri-
intertwined lovers—the lovers, supposedly, they left cal whole. Thus the fisherman’s knot (see page 106) may
True Lover’s Knot: Step 1 True Lover’s Knot: Step 2
Knots You need
Intertwine two overhand knots (see page 18) Take the belly of one overhand out through
on opposite sides of a bight, as shown in the the opposite overhand, as shown in the
photograph. The overhands must be inter- photograph.
twined exactly as shown.
At this point, the cord may be
tightened into a lanyard knot.
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