Page 47 - Alpheus Hyatt Verrill "Knots, Splices and Rope-Work"

A "Flemish Eye" (Fig. 90) is an eye made in a manner much like that employed in
forming the selvagee strap. Take a spar or piece of wood the size of the intended eye A.
Around this wood lay a number of pieces of yarn or marline, B, B, B, and fasten them by
tying with twine as at C. Whip the piece of rope in which eye is to be formed and unravel
and open out the strands as at D. Lap the yarns over the wood and the stops B, and fasten
together by overhand knots E, worm the free ends under and over and then bring up the
ends of the stops B and tie around the strands of eye as shown.