Page 13 - Des Pawson "Pocket Guide to Knots & Splices"

Pocket Guide to Knots & Splices

Above: Sailor’s wall pocket with McNamara’s
lace.

Left: Early 20th century macrame bag.

This use of knots for communication

was taken up again much later in the late
nineteenth century by David Macheath

and Robert Mylne in Scotland when an
alphabet for the blind was developed. It
did not come to anything, but was part of

an on-going tradition of knots for
communication. The knot tied in a hand¬

kerchief to remind you of a task to be