Page 40 - Walter B. Gibson Knots And How To Tie Them

That's one way of doing it, particu.
larly if you want to add more loops i
the same fashion. But if you want to
wind up with a Triple Lark's Head
and no more, you can vary it thus:
Take each end of the rope up in back
of the bar, over the top, down in
front and through the loop toward
the back (fig. 1). This brings two
strands side by side and forms two
conventional hitches, which are
"squared off" so to speak, with the
third or original hitch between them
(fig. 2).
In making a multiple hitch, of five,
seven, nine or more interlocking
loops, you can use the first process
(up in front, down in back) until you
come to the final pair. Then square
them off by the reverse procedure.
To form an Interlocking Lark's
Head in the center of the rope: Hold
the rope across the hands, palms up,
and twist them together to form the
OTHER METHOD False Lark's Head. Retain this with
, -, the left hand while the right gathers
" ;ddition;l coils, twisting each one
inward. Grip this with the right hand
, while the left gathers its extra coils,
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also working inw'ard. Slide the loops
I Onto the end of the bar and that's it.
.. .. To "square off' the final loops,
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fig. 1 simply twist them outward instead of
inward. The same can be done with
the final loops of a longer chain.

fig. 2