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SOME TURK’S HEADS F OR DECORA TION OR NAPKIN RINGS

Formula for 17 lead 4 bight

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These long complex Turk’s heads make an ideal covering for a
knife handle, in fact there are many things you can put a Turk’s
head on. Perhaps you will catch the Turk’s head fever just as they
did on the Brendan Voyage:

‘Every item that could possibly be embellished with a
Turk’s Head was duly decorated‘

Tim Severin, The Brendan Voyage, 1978.

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