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Five-Bight Turk’s 3 Pass to the right of the standing part in our first

The Six-Lead,
lead, over, under, over, making a second ‘ladder’.
Head, doubled.

the 5L6B th knot

1 We start with a

3l2B tH, which
we make as for
our 3l4B, but
pass to the left
and don’t make
a ‘mouth’.

4 returning to the start, we pass between the

start and our first left-side doubling ‘ladder’,
over, under, over, under…

2 Pass the working end over the standing end, 5

to its left, passing over, under, over to the right,
making a ‘ladder’, then around behind, under
over, under…
one, over one. – and then pass back to the left over, under,