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stopped to their standing parts, otherwise the knot will turn and can work loose. It has an added
advantage in that it can be formed where one end has already been secured, spliced or seized to its
standing part.

Make it by forming a bight in one end, or twist the eye in the rope with the secured end. Take the
second rope behind the end loop and up, at the top of the crossover point, to take it between the end
and the standing part of the first rope. Now continue to work the second rope up at the lower side of
the crossing point, to tuck it into the eye behind itself, and out of the eye (this is where it differs from
the carrick bend) to lie against its standing part (figure 48), where you can secure it.

Double carrick bend sennit: an ideal way of forming a belt or strap, especially effective when two
differently coloured cords are used.

First seize the two cords together, but if making a belt remember to leave sufficient cord to make a
loop through which a knob at the other end of the belt can pass, in order to fasten it. Then form a

series of alternating carrick bends (see page 30), the first being made with the red cord above the
white, the second with the white above the red (figure 49). After each hitch has been formed, it
should be drawn tight. Continue alternating in this fashion until reaching the length of strap that you
want, at which point the ends can be seized together and a knob formed if you want one as a fastening.