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THE ASHLEY BOOK OF KNOTS

624. A TRIANGULAR KNOT. To accent the corners of this, three

two-sided compartments have been introduced. The knot is worked

very flat, and the edges are kept very sharp.

625. A triangular shape with a series of snug bights around the

edges. Although less distinctively triangular than the former knot,

it is perhaps handsomer, and quite as practical.

624

626. A SQUARE KNOT with sharp edges similar to jj!624. All the

knots shown on this page should be worked as flat as possible.

627. A SQUARE KNOT with the same characteristics as TRIANGULAR

KNOT jj!625.

628. A CIRCULAR FLAT-TOPPED KNOT tied and worked in the same

manner.

629. The next few knots of this panel are based on the CHINESE

BUTTERFLY KNOT, which is more fully described in Chapter 3 I

("Fancy Knots"). When tied as a fancy knot, the bights which are

here tightly gathered around the crown of the knot are generally

extended in long loops to form the fringes or wings that have given

the name to the BUITERFLY KNOTS. Tied as a BUTTON, there are four

loops on this particular specimen, and the stem of the knot is at the

625 center of the underside. Tied as a BUITERFL Y KNOT, the stem is at

one corner, and there are three loops around the knot (jj! 245 I );

while tied as a two-cord LANYARD KNOT (jj! 8 I I ), there are but two

loops to the knot. These knots are tightened two parts at a time as

/ described for KNOT jj! 587, in the last chapter.

630. An OBLONG KNOT which should be pinned out on the table

for tying. Unless worked very firmly, it will distort.

631. One of the handsomest and most practical of all the BUTTON

KNOTS. Like the knots in the previous panel, this should be tied flat.

632. A larger RECTANGULAR KNOT.

633. A distinctive and individual knot with a diagonal texture.

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634. An adaptation of the BUITERFLY KNOT, in triangular form,

may be tied as a BUITON KNOT. Unless carefully worked, it is in-

clined to be too open at the edges to be practical.

635. A PENTAGONAL BUTTERFLY BUTI'ON. A five-bight center is

62.1 inclined to distort. To obviate this the stem of the knot leads down

from the lower instead of the upper plane of the knot.

636. A "LEITER-Box" SHAPE, adapted from a TURK'S-HEAD dia-

gram.

637. A TRUNCATED PYRAMID.

638. A RECTANGULAR KNOT of individual form. It is not necessary

in this one to prick up the top center part.

A practical way to copy diagrams that are not equipped with

the circles which indicate the over-and-under sequence is to draw the

diagram first with a single light pencil line. Then take a red pencil

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and draw a solid red line over each crossing in the direction to be

taken by the upper lead 0r part.

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