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three-pass spanish ring
knot
As one might expect, this knot follows the same
basic pattern as the other Spanish Ring Knots. Note
that the more passes we make, the bulkier the knot
becomes. You should consider only using thin cord
or twine for many passes around one object. When
using leather strips, this knot makes a very fine
covering knot. Incidentally, you can cover square or
otherwise sharp-cornered objects with all Spanish
6 nearly there! pass under three and over three, Ring Knots.
The number of bights has increased in the single
from right to left.
pass from the initial Turk’s Head of five bights to
one of eight bights, and now with the two-pass we
have increased that number of bights to eleven. The
number of leads has also increased from three in the
initial Turk’s Head, to five in the single pass, to seven
in the two-pass. The knot shown here is a doubled
two-pass knot, made by adding a ‘railway track’
alongside the first pass. The three-pass will require
that you take the same
action of lifting the first
pass of the third turn up
7 double the knot or just tuck under and secure as end, so as to add more
and over the standing

bights and more leads
normal.
or parts. When you
reach the end either of
the single-pass, double-
pass, or the three-pass
you can then simply
make ‘railway tracks’
of the standing part to
‘double’ the number of
leads. Actually, all you
are doing is putting a
parallel lead alongside
the first lead.

A doubled, two-pass
The end result. Note the double chevron shape Spanish Ring or
and compare with the final stage of the single pass Gaucho Knot of eleven
Spanish Ring Knot. bights and seven leads.