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making three or four stitches at the same place but leaving about twice the thickness of the rope
between the length of the stitches. Take round turns around the joined ropes until the length of the
stitches is covered. Now take the needle through the eye and make three cross-turns around the entire

length of the round turns and pull the whole seizing tight. Use the remaining twine to sew round the
cross-turns and through the rope before trimming off.

figure 67.1

Flemish eye: a variation on the eye splice, made in the end of a rope.

Begin by carefully unlaying just one strand from the end of the rope, and form a bight in this single
strand. At the point of the extremity of the required eye, relay the single strand into the vacant lay
(figure 67.1) and work it carefully back towards the throat of the eye. Now take the remaining double

strand and wrap this continuously around the single strand which currently forms one half of the eye,
using the single strand to fill the vacant lay until the double strand also reaches the throat of the eye
(figure 67.2). The three strands have now met again so that you can lay back the single strand into its
original position to form the working end (figure 67.3), which is then securely seized to the standing

part.

figure 67.2