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Heel Knot (Bosal Knot)
This knot is usually made over a base that is raised Knot will be raised. Because the shape is already in
or built up over the base layer by a process known place, there is no need to raise a mouse there. Make
as ‘raising a mouse’. This is done either by making sure that if you are using leather strips to make the
a single or a series of Turk’s Head Knots under the knot, the edges of your leather are beveled so that
location where the Heel Knot is to be made, or by they lay flat on the final surface. With cord there is
adding strips of rawhide over the area of the knot no need for such concerns, because the cord, being
to get the desired height above the surface. This round, is as wide as it is thick. If you want the end
moused area is then normally lacquered over. In this to close fully, as in this case, try not to exceed six
series of photographs I have shown the handle of bights, because they will have difficulty in closing
a tool known as a seam rubber on which the Heel completely over the end.

1 Start with a 7L6B TH Knot (see Chapter 9). 3 – under one, ready to turn the corner…

2 go under one, over one, under one, over one… 4 – to move down to the base of the knot,

repeating under one, over one, under one, over
Insert your second cord, here dark brown, and
one…