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Universal TH Knot grid – pick
the number of bights across
the lower edge and the number
of leads up the left side.
Select the Single-Strand TH Knot you want to Node 1, and that there is a similar Node 1 at upper
tie and count off the number of bights along the left showing a line entering from the upper corner.
bottom or lower edge of the figure. Then, carefully, These two lines and nodes are one and the same,
count the leads up from the lower-left corner, with forming the thirteenth (or the first) upper bight.
each diagonal line counting as one lead. Here is an Ignore all the thickened lines at the top edge, which
example of a 7L13B TH Knot grid. are simply the result of cropping the grid, and
Notice the numbered nodes, top and bottom, treat each one as a bight, just like the lower edge.
forming the bights, and that the upper-right corner On the right-hand edge, take particular note of
shows a line exiting upward and to the right at the thickened lines and follow them horizontally
