Page 267 - Geoffrey Budworth "The Pocket Guide to Outdoor Knots"
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Purpose
Use this simple braid, replicating a pigtail plait from a single strand, either to
shorten a needlessly long length of line or to improvise a handle or hand-hold on
a suitcase, a church bellrope or a sailing dinghy’s dagger plate.
Tying
Arrange the line in three parts and plait as shown, bringing alternate outer left
and right standing parts across the middle strand (figures 1–3). See how a loose
mirror-image of the developing plait is created at the lower end of the work.
Untangle this, as the work progresses, by pulling out the free end. Finally make a
locking tuck (figure 4).
