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10 see the next ladder for stage 11. 11 Make the last pass before re-joining the
returning to the right, pass through the
next ladder under, over, under. you can now
standing end, from right to left over, under,
over.

Here is the finished 4L9B Turk’s
Head Knot, passed three times
over a napkin ring.

What then should we make of the unshaded boxes As we said before, a Wide TH Knot has more
above of possible TH Knots that are still marked leads than bights and a Narrow TH Knot has more
with an ‘X’? Cyrus Day suggests that these must be bights than leads. Of the 375 possible Single-Strand
made directly, while Ashley gives but a few hints, TH Knots that are shown in this 25-by-25 table (25
other than to say they must be drawn out on a grid leads and 25 bights), we have looked at only 111 of
and followed from there. Ashley does, however, them; our Square TH Knots and three, four, and
discuss the division of TH Knots into three classes Five-Lead Narrow TH knots. Wide TH Knots are
as we did earlier, so that we may classify and covered below.
understand or speak of them a little better:

Square TH Knots
Narrow TH Knots
Wide TH Knots