Page 10 - Jane Renolds "Knots Your Complete Step by Step Guide to Knot, Knot Uses, and Knot Tying"

Components of Knots

To get you started, here are the various components of knots:

1. Bight. Bights are the slack, curved sections of the knots. They are
also known to be the loops found near the ends of the rope, yarn, or

string.

http://www.animatedknots.com/photos/bowlinebight/bowlinebightR11.jpg

Bight

2. Loop. Loops are just like bights—but are narrower and have two
separate ends.

http://www.animatedknots.com/photos/perfection/perfectionR10.jpg
Loop