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strands can be made secure by seizing them to the object.

NB the wall and crown plait cannot be made with more than four strands.

Walling: we have illustrated the wall knot as formed at the end of a length of three-stranded rope.
However, you can wall any number of strands and to demonstrate this, figure 149.1 of the wall and

crown knot shows the wall formed from four strands. The same method is used for any number of
strands, with each strand being passed around under its neighbour working anticlockwise, with the
last strand passed up through the bight of the first; see also continuous walling.

Wall knot: often referred to as ‘a wall’, this knot is quite simply a crown knot (see page 57) made
upside down.